Great Weekend With Lots O Free Stuff

**J-dude** · Sep 20, 2011, 01:55 AM

Hey all, hope you had a great weekend! So my beautiful fiance' and I were out this weekend hitting the garage sales and when we got to our last one of the day the lady was just closing up an hour early due to a low turnout. She was actually in her car with it loaded up for her first trip to the Goodwill. When she noticed us walking down her driveway she got out of her car and said, "Your just in time, everything in this pile is free and what you don't want I'm taking to Goodwill, you can even have a look at the stuff in my car!" Let me tell you, we were like....hmmm this is AMAZING! As it turns out the lady and her husband were moving from a large home to a condo so they needed to get rid of some stuff. She was retired military and had picked up some really cool stuff from her travels. Below is a list of some of the things we scored as well as a few pics:

22"x25" Framed Don Quixote Print by Pablo Picasso (value between 50.00 and 125.00 depending on framing)
18 Pieces of Maud Humphrey Bogart Figurines (Retail for each piece was from 25.00-220.00 most being in the 60.00 range)
11 Norman Rockwell Collector Plates
9 Nachtmann Crystal Bowls
Brass Russian Samovar with German Teapot
12" Hand Painted Hand Made Turkish Plate

There were a few more items but I cannot remember them off the top of my head. I am trying to get more info on the Russian samovar as they seem to sell for good money depending on the year and maker (50.00 - 1200.00) If you can read Russian or have any info on the samovar from the pics please let me know

At another sale we found some pretty good stuff as well....no pics:

Velodyne Home Theater Subwoofer - Sold 100.00
Bose Indoor/Outdoor Speakers - Should get 50.00 - 100.00 if I don't keep them

Solomon In Line Skates - Sold 60.00
Vintage Ice Skates - ?
Paid 47.00 for all

Keep at it and have fun out there....there are treasures to be found!