Category Archives: Sale Tales

Fabulous but true tales of life in yard sale land.

Groceries, bamboo, and rain

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 4 Comments

Last week was beautiful and sunny. Friday was gorgeous! And then Saturday? Rain. Half the sales on the list I’d put together weren’t even happening. The ones that were crazy enough not to cancel pretty much looked like this. We … Continue reading

Santa, Cindy, and Smoking Squirrel

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 3 Comments

Jenny was out for sales this weekend, but Karl and I made plans to try and hit the Capitol Hill annual sale. The last time Jenny and I went it was pretty crappy, but each year a sale is different. … Continue reading

A Saturday alone

Posted by Meghan in Sale Tales | 3 Comments

Jenny and Karl were both busy on Saturday. I hadn’t hit sales without them in a while and it’s honestly a bit less entertaining. But we have had so much rain and when Saturday was super nice, I couldn’t not … Continue reading

Rainy Phinney

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 10 Comments

Phinney Ridge Garage Sale Day started out with a drizzly dull thud, since many of its 100 signed-up participants didn’t even have a sale –- we wouldn’t have either. It was cruddy for the first 4 hours of the sale. … Continue reading

Wild Wild West Seattle

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 12 Comments

Last weekend was the event we’d been waiting for: West Seattle Garage Sale Day! This is the fifth year running we have blogged about this neighborhood sale day, which by now is probably the biggest one in town. We got … Continue reading

Lobsters, ladies, and lettering

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 4 Comments

A couple of Fridays ago I met Karl to hit part two of an estate sale that I’d missed the first time around (it was the one where Meghan and Karl spent a half hour waiting in the rain, before … Continue reading

Janks for the memories

Posted by Meghan in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 7 Comments

Seems like forever since we did an update? Oddly enough, we haven’t all been together on a sale day for well over a month. The rain seems to have passed, the annual neighborhood sales are getting closer — West Seattle … Continue reading

Style studs and instant pussycats

Posted by Jenny in Junk In My Trunk, Sale Tales | 7 Comments

We didn’t hit any sales last weekend, but the Saturday before that we made the rounds … if you can even use that term for the slim pickin’s on a gray day in early spring. The first one was in … Continue reading