Treasure Hunt

 Lisa and I were hired to do an estate sale.  Little did we know when we signed the contract that it would end up being 3 sales.  This house is 3 floors, it's huge like 3500 or more square feet.  All of those square feet, for the most part, were filled with cool things.  

I will never forget Lisa's face as we sat in one of the rooms looking around...."how are we going to do this?"  We NEEDED a plan.  There was too much on each level to let everyone wander around without things "missing."  It happens.... 

We started with a sale of items on main living area only.  We sold like 80% of that.  Then we boxed that stuff up, took out to the garage and had a $5 box sale.  We did that so we could have a clean slate to move stuff down and upstairs to main level.  Then we did sale 2.  We had the $5 boxes, new items and FREE items.  We are having a reduced sale to clean up the main level again.  We sold like 70% of that.  Did I mention she had hundreds of dolls?  The 3rd sale will be like a Pop Up Boutique.  We plan to move clearance items to 2 rooms.  We saved the jewelry, clothes, pottery, art and some glassware for the last one.  Whew.....I don't say all of this to get comments for pats on the back, I just wanted to explain this part of the post......

"Was she a hoarder?"  I heard this multiple times during these sales.  "Maybe, she was."  I said, "who am I to judge, I have buildings full of 'treasures' too."  "How can 1 person acquire this much stuff?"  I said, "she must have had fun!"  ahahahah.   One thing is for sure - this is the point of this post - I don't think we will EVER find another house like this!  As in, old...old...cool things.  We went through (100's) of boxes of holiday things.  Of course we bought some of them for ourselves....but, thing is...I can't even share because some customers may get jelly....for real...hey, I dug in all that, that was my reward.  We pay the same price we would have put them out for, sometimes more!

I've been in the antique, picking, selling world my whole life.  I am afraid this may be it, there just isn't many houses like this one left.  The ones with old boxes with cool old things, wrapped in decade old paper.  The only way, would be, if it was for another antique dealer type estate.  Hoarder homes, I KNOW for a fact would have way more rodent damage to the items than this did.  We hardly found any of that.  Most families don't want to deal with any of this so they toss it all.  I'm so happy we were involved.  The last dumpster the family filled was ALL garbage, I know we sorted it ALL and made sure of it.  

While working on this sale, I had a dream about a white fluffy squirrel.  I looked up the meaning and it was something like this:  it's a sign to continue persevering with your goals and dreams and if you do you will be rewarded in a form of success.  Be sure not to overload yourself.  (ahahah).  Almost everyday since that dream, that we worked over there, I found a squirrel.  A squirrel...I mean come on....squirrel....

So, here I am, persevering.....getting ready for sale 3.  

This is why I haven't posted like normal on my blog, I've been doing this.  Here are only a few pictures of what we sold so far.  

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.