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Today we decided to go garage saling! I wasn't having a lot of luck with the first ones we went to, they were interesting enough I guess but most of them were sort of like "hey, it's nice out today, maybe I could throw a few things on the lawn and make a couple of bucks." With the exception of a roll of floral wire I didn't find anything exciting.
But then as we were finishing up the garage saling Scottie saw a sign for a six family garage sale. I was excited that it could be more interesting! We practically missed it though since there was almost nothing out front, but the walkway between the two houses had things and then the area in front of the garage had most of the stuff. I was disappointed by the selection at first, there was a lot of toys and things in rather poor condition for really high prices. I nearly left without seeing something really awesome! There was a tote off in a corner that I couldn't see what was in it. I looked and I saw a jumbled pile of barbie and monster high furnature, random doll clothing, and dolls. They were all in heavily played with condition, half naked, marker or paint on faces, ratty hair, and most of the dolls didn’t have their lower arms, etc. But I saw at least some lower arms sliding around in the bottom of the box and I thought I might be able to find replacements if they weren’t all there. Based on what I saw from the rest of the sale, I was afraid that they would be really expensive, but there was a taped on sign saying “Monster High Stuff- 12 for all”. Then I flailed and snagged the box. I took a picture of what the box looked like at the start, but for some reason my camera ate it. XD
I brought it all home and washed all of it. There is a pile of Barbie and MH clothes, the Coffin Bean set, that MH display thing, a bunch of random Barbie furniture, and three MH pets- Frankies, Dueces, and Cleo's pets. But most exciting were the dolls! They had the Costco Coffin Bean set, so they had Clawdeen and Lala from there. They also had the signature Venus. The other dolls were all older though! There is the old Cleo and Duece set, the original Lagoona, and the original Frankie. Those were the most damaged of course, they have some sort of marker or paint or something on them. I'm going to try and remove that. Lagoona has a slightly broken forearm peg so that will need some glue to keep it in reliably, and she's missing her leg fins. Frankie is the most damaged, her head peg is broken and she's actually missing her legs. I can fix the head easily enough, but I'm not sure of what to do with missing legs. xD Maybe I can make a centaur.
I'm excited about rehabilitating these dolls!
There's just so much stuff! I'm not sure what to do with all of it quite yet!
But then as we were finishing up the garage saling Scottie saw a sign for a six family garage sale. I was excited that it could be more interesting! We practically missed it though since there was almost nothing out front, but the walkway between the two houses had things and then the area in front of the garage had most of the stuff. I was disappointed by the selection at first, there was a lot of toys and things in rather poor condition for really high prices. I nearly left without seeing something really awesome! There was a tote off in a corner that I couldn't see what was in it. I looked and I saw a jumbled pile of barbie and monster high furnature, random doll clothing, and dolls. They were all in heavily played with condition, half naked, marker or paint on faces, ratty hair, and most of the dolls didn’t have their lower arms, etc. But I saw at least some lower arms sliding around in the bottom of the box and I thought I might be able to find replacements if they weren’t all there. Based on what I saw from the rest of the sale, I was afraid that they would be really expensive, but there was a taped on sign saying “Monster High Stuff- 12 for all”. Then I flailed and snagged the box. I took a picture of what the box looked like at the start, but for some reason my camera ate it. XD
I brought it all home and washed all of it. There is a pile of Barbie and MH clothes, the Coffin Bean set, that MH display thing, a bunch of random Barbie furniture, and three MH pets- Frankies, Dueces, and Cleo's pets. But most exciting were the dolls! They had the Costco Coffin Bean set, so they had Clawdeen and Lala from there. They also had the signature Venus. The other dolls were all older though! There is the old Cleo and Duece set, the original Lagoona, and the original Frankie. Those were the most damaged of course, they have some sort of marker or paint or something on them. I'm going to try and remove that. Lagoona has a slightly broken forearm peg so that will need some glue to keep it in reliably, and she's missing her leg fins. Frankie is the most damaged, her head peg is broken and she's actually missing her legs. I can fix the head easily enough, but I'm not sure of what to do with missing legs. xD Maybe I can make a centaur.
I'm excited about rehabilitating these dolls!
There's just so much stuff! I'm not sure what to do with all of it quite yet!
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Date: 2013-06-16 09:23 am (UTC)From:Me, I am browsing ebay all the time, which is also very bad - I tend to find things I didn't even know I needed ;) I'll show you when they arrived.
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Date: 2013-06-16 07:00 pm (UTC)From:hehe, I try to avoid browsing ebay just for that reason, but it is rather fun to do. xD
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Date: 2013-06-16 10:07 am (UTC)From:Looks like a good haul.
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Date: 2013-06-16 07:09 pm (UTC)From:It was a good haul! It took a bit of elbow grease (and magic eraser) to get them cleaned up, but nothing stained the vinyl so any other problems will be minor in comparison and that's only looking at the dolls themselves. xD
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Date: 2013-06-16 03:23 pm (UTC)From:Now I'm going to have to start trolling garage sales. :)
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Date: 2013-06-16 07:12 pm (UTC)From:I've been trolling garage sales for MH all this time, this is the first time I've found anything but omg it was such an amazing find!
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Date: 2013-06-16 09:47 pm (UTC)From:I like the feeling of getting a deal too, even when getting the deal is still spending money lol. n_n' This though was a really amazing deal so I'm super excited. xD
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