OMG - I am called the Queen of thrift stores and garage sales, antique places, flea markets. I have a pickle relish dish from 1874 bought at a thrift store for 50 cents. , a 1938 platter for 2.00, long silver tray for 3.00, 1920s dishes for 15.00, whole set, vintage christmas items like santa mugs for 50 cents each. You never know what you will find in a thrift store.
Best flea market is in Canton, Texas, firs monday every month. you will never see it all. I have been going since 1976. Round Top, TExas is another one twice yearly but a bit pricey and some of the tents you pay to enter - high dollar stuff, but fun to attend. all along the side of the road there are tons of tents set up. Best thrift store is in Bowie, Texas - Hospice Thrift store in a 100 yr old store downtown. unreal - when I lived there I volunteered there. It is like a department store - large and has everything. I loved working there. I was their research person to find out how much things were worth. Amazing what people get rid of too.
I want to go to that longest garage sale in June some day too. When I lived in Bowie, Texas - three smaller towns had a town garage sale every year - everything was cheap wherever you went. I was a car load day. I always look for canning jars to. I collect depression glass, milk glass, hommer laughlin riveria dinnerware, marcrest oven proof dishes, blue willow, early american prescut by anchor hocking in the 60s, green frankoma, off white pottery,
it is a great stress reliever for me - love it.
