Auctions and Farm Sales are a time honored way to spend a saturday with farmers in your neck of the woods. I can remember as a small child always wanting to hear the story of the wash board.. it seems when my momma was little, she went one time with Grandpa D to a sale and was waving hello to a friend of her’s across the room and bought a hand wash board, unknown to her dad till his name was called out as the buyer 🙂
I was thrilled the first time DH came home and said there is farm sale just down the road this coming weekend, you want to go,they have xxx on your list and so we started meeting the regulars..Â
Normally I am the buyer, but its always a joint thing, we go though the sales, we pick out the ones that have at least ten things min listed that we are interested in, (unless the sale is within 20 min from the farm, then we might just go for the sake of going to see) otherwise, we stay within an hour of the farm in any direction for sales, and that gives us alot of sale per year. We tend to have a general rule of paying no more then ten percent for the items vs the cost of new.
Here is DH’s best buy ever! We went to a sale and I was after a few paintings, and some kitchen things, hubby was after shelves but when we pulled in, like always we had a walk around, and who could miss the eight foot brown leather couch, I even tried it out because it was so long..
Needless to say, I was by the wagon’s full of box’s of kitchen stuff, going though each one to see what treasures where hidden at the bottom, and hubby was over at the big stuff, keeping an eye on the price of a chain-saw, when they got to the couch, I can hear the sale but I am not really there, starts at 500 hundred, I snort.. not going to get that around here I think, and the price goes down and down, and now they are at 50, 30 and ten dollars and my head is coming up and I am think..HUH, and finally the guy sales, the first person to give me two bucks gets it, and I hear my Hubby, Go TWO BUCKS and I am looking at him as he comes over and goes guess what hon.. Got to love the two buck leather couch..
As for me, I don’t even know what would be my favorite sale, the whole bedroom set that I love including a 8month old double bed worth 1800 on the paperwork for a hundred, the almost 900 hundred dollars worth of new wool with price tags still on, for eighty, the metal farm gate that at the store would cost you 300 for $20, the time I was the only one that looked into the ratty looking old trunk that I bought for 2 bucks, that happened to have four! wool blankets in it (the big old heavy bay ones in perfect shape, smelling strongly of moth balls) just try and find a 60 plus year old bay wool blanket (all were double size) for 50 cents anywhere else, for that matter if anyone had bothered to look, they would have gone for alot more.
Don’t always trust the outside, this one time there was a huge chest on wheels and the outside was the most strained, falling off cheap siding in a panelling you can imagine, no one was looking at it, there were two crates stacked on top, they were not small or light, but I had DH take them off and looked inside, the whole inside was lined in the most beautiful ceder panels, it smelled heavenly and while homemade it was very well done, we restacked the box’s on top, and waited.. I got it for buck, and this old guy shook his head and said.. don’t know why you would want that, its falling apart.. When I got it home, took off the outside part and was left with a large homemade cedar trunk.
Wonder what teasures will be found this year, I will share my best with you.
Last but not least, I have Muscovy’s, the heavy weights of the yard, they are not of the same family as the other ducks and will if breed create mules of the duck world. Good for eating but not good for reproduction.
Just another Day on the Farm 