MILES OF YARD SALES! | THRIFTING FOR PROFIT | VINTAGE RESELLING

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A TABLE WORTH 10X THE MONEY | DESIGNER THRIFTING | ANTIQUES
If one yard sale offers vintage reseller treasures, then how about a road full of yard sales? We prowl a stretch of Kentucky's 400-mile yard sale, traveling the backroads and hitting a few dozen yard sales featuring antique and vintage gold...all in just one day! Now you get to play along with us, commenting on the good, the bad, the strange and the missed chances you see in this video of our journey.
Among hundreds of sellers along Hwy. 68/80, we pick out the ones where antiques abound and mutliple sales cluster in certain spots to raise the odds of finding something we can flip for a profit. And boy, do we! A stunning Fostoria Crown compote, 1950s jadeite, antique coin counters and a stylish two-tone typewriter go into the van at good prices...and that's just one stop!
We pay as little as 25 cents for some vintage collectibles, see bucolic sights along the way and finish the trip by asking about the thing not marked for sale...and getting it! You'll have to watch to the end to see it, but a true design icon ends up in the van...$45 paid, with the potential to make hundreds! Thrifting a bunch of yard sales together sure makes it fun and profitable to take a nice road trip through the countryside.
Here's more of the bargains we check out as we thrift along this route:
Lilli Ann coat, turquoise bead jewelry, cast aluminum match safe, iron wheels, metal stool, pressed-back chairs, garden cart, medicine cabinet, trunks and foot lockers, Fostoria Jamestown, galvanized tubs, Space Needle decanter, wood croquet set, cream separator, braided throw rugs, crystal letter opener, loop pattern flint glass compote, pipe cutter, 19th century tongs, gum rack, milk bottles, McDonald's tumblers, celluloid hand mirrors, metal 1950s mailbox, 78 rpm records, boxed 1970s Corning and Pyrex, mini organ and child's piano, Royal Copley fish vase, Salterini table, Hall China refrigerator pitcher, McCoy swallowtail pitcher, car lights, quilt top, porch glider, 1970s modern breakfast table/chairs, milk cans, postal machine, floor scales, Coke store cooler, bakelite ice cream scoop, bar open light, Barbicide jar, faux fireplace log motion lamp, Lefton Christmas cup/saucer, red concrete setter, 1960s chemistry set, vintage Coke ephemera, 1980s lotus lamp, 1930s stamped tin fire engine, churn,
1930s bedroom furniture, Florida flamingo caddy, mini rolling pin, etc.
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@lenorerubien8083 2 года назад

Memories of yesteryear. Typewriter and stand. My first job in the fifties

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

My first job in the 70's!! 👋🙂

@janeclark3037 2 года назад

I have the entire set of Edward Woodard - table, couch, two tiered table, 4 chairs and 2 lounge chairs and I didn’t even know they were valuable! Inherited from my Aunt. I thought it was just patio furniture! I’m so excited!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

That's so great! A lot of people don't realize it's gone way up because it's outdoors rather than indoors

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

Wtg!!!👋🙂

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

12:17 George, You have Your hand on a pitcher exactly like my Mom had and it always sat in the kitchen!!! How old do You think that one was, I think Mom's was late 60's early 70's!!!? 17:43 is our old phone (wish I could read the number off of it, I still remember our phone number!!) Prettiest: Typewriter & Stand (I wish I could make a find like that!!) Ugliest: 14:42 That pitiful, delapidated, green & yellow (plastic?) Palm Tree - What a very sad ending!! (Are the green palms inflatable?) Strangest: but Coolest, the Lizard Bracelet-It's so Cleopatra-ish Something George should have bought, but didn't: The Waterford letter opener (I need a new one anyway!!) This was more than Fun, It was Great!!! Thank You, George!!👋🙂

@misswildlife7905 2 года назад

Can't wait..open open open!! LOL LOL

@Deborah4Antiques 2 года назад

I was not ready for this show to be over, not by a long stretch!!! Thx. George.

@elizabethpritchard6016 2 года назад

Lol, I have the Royal Copley fish vases in my house. I seem to like Royal Copley

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Me too!

@tamarrajames3590 2 года назад

At 5:35 the stool cabinet with holes in it was similar to one my Granther used for milking in the Winter, it had an iron grate and catch tray inside. He would scoop coals into if from the kitchen stove. It warmed his bum on the cold days, and he could warm his hands before touching the cows udders..🖤🇨🇦

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Oh neat! Thank you. Someone else suggested it could hold coals, I'm glad to know

@tamarrajames3590 2 года назад

@@TheAntiqueNomad my pleasure. It was also used as a foot stool on cold nights, as all the heat came from the kitchen stove, one of those huge iron wood burners, and the living room fireplace I could walk into when it wasn’t in use. Both were banked before bed. It was cool to see one again, and the tray and grate wouldn’t be hard to find, you could even use a cast iron Dutch Oven as a substitute.🖤🇨🇦

@crazyrawgranny8695 2 года назад

I thought the Zubian sealing wax 18.55 was cool. The Zubian was a navy destroyer in world war 1 and it was made up of two other destroyer ships the Zulu and the Nubian. so I guess they needed a lot of this sealing wax and the company is The Dicks-Bontius a bountiful number of Dicks

@OriginalNethead 2 года назад

Looking for: pretty, ugly. strange and... oops. Prettiest? The horses, natch. And didn't they know it. Ugly? Some of that costume jewelry. Maybe more pedestrian than ugly. Strangest? Gotta be George! (sorry dude but this one was obvious) You passed on a Lilli Anne Coat right off the bat! My vintage clothing friends/fiends would have JUMPED on that. Oops in spades. . ( BTW - this New Englander has only read of "bubblers" in books; we called them water fountains. )

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Ha! Yes to the horses. Agreed about the costume jewelry, not ugly but very ordinary for the most part. I didn't pass on that coat btw, I bought it but I don't think I said so! Interesting about the bubblers, I've hard it specifically from people from certain sections of Boston so it may just be urban?

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

We always called them water fountains in my Southern schools, too!! 👋🙂

@OriginalNethead 2 года назад

@@TheAntiqueNomad Just the Boston area if memory serves. Or was it around Minneapolis? I've only read the term; I've never heard it used in conversation and it's hard to remember where it came from. .

@ncorp2668 2 года назад

On a hot day or any day that is cruel to keep the horse's strapped all up to the heavy carriages is so cruel!!!!!

@persiphonehellecat 2 года назад

Hmmmm ... I didn't really see anything I loved. Ugliest? I hate milk cans. Reminds me of my mother's colonial decor. What should have bought? Well - I was kind of partial to the water fountain. My brother in Cape Cod calls it a "bubblah" - there is a wall mounted one I have been watching on Marketplace - thinking I could put a pump in it and make a cool dog fountain out of it. Well - if Hemingway could make his cats a fountain out of a urinal from his favorite Key West watering hole - why not? Can't wait to see the rest of the trip. I sure would love a 400 mile sale. Unfortunately Long Island isn't 400 miles long. Not even close.

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Hi there! I must say that while I was pleased with the buys I made, there were less interesting smalls than last year. I was also partial to the water fountain but afraid to get something big so early (I had a second highway sale to cover the next day!). Hemingway's cats were my favorite thing about his Key West house, I promptly got a six-toed cat! I'd go on any Long Island sale, that seems like a place that would have a lot of really wonderful things potentially at yard sales.

@colleengula9333 2 года назад

I loved this vidio. I love the way you talk to the cows and horses. I learned a lot from you today found you threw Missy I will now follow you as well. I find you to be honest and well informed on a lot. Which is great . I learn from you and Missy and Crazy lamp lady and thanks when it got out looking in will be better informed. So thank you for a really informed vidio.

@modawg1111 2 года назад

I enjoy your videos, just about everyday ! I’m also from Seattle, raised high above on Queen Anne Hill ! I bet you know, Rhinestone Rosey !? I love her shop on top of Queen Anne ! She’s also an appraiser on Antique Roadshow ! Mahalo for teaching me so much ! 😊👍✌️🤙

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I love her shop too and she does my jewelry repairs! Many mahalos to you

@YvonThriftyRich 2 года назад

Should of: the 73 Camaro 😎 that was the first car I bought all by myself when I was 17 years old 🧡🧡 I immediately put matching brown fun fur on the inside door panels and the headboard 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Wow! I looked at a '78 but it had clearly had the miles rolled back so I bought a Mazda RX7 (also all by myself at age 17, then couldn't drive it for a month until I found someone who would insure me)

@llion4771 2 года назад

Prettiest were the pink stone earrings. Funnest was the Timex cavatina watch. Strangest was the 80s orchid lamp. Russellville did seem very busy!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

The convertible watch, a short lived but fun fad! The orchid lamp, yes. I do like pink rhinestones!

@lolaseymour1532 2 года назад

Your horse commentary made me nicker! Did you get the glider?

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I didn't, but there's always the next video...

@george.carrasco Год назад

Great video George! Thanks for sharing!

@sarahsiskin6780 2 года назад

My favorite was the table you found at the end, didn’t like the pool table things, don’t know about a strange item and the thing I would have bought? The Camaro!!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

The Camaro! Not for sale, sadly. The table at the end was definitely the buy of the day!

@juliemcglothen9104 2 года назад

I didn't know you were from Seattle. I'm from Port orchard WA. Have you been there?

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Yes! I grew up in Brownsville. My mom would take me thrifting in Pt. Orchard as a kid

@carolegernett4351 2 года назад

I think my fav piece was the Fostoria candy dish

@heatherr1473 2 года назад

Hello from Australia. I liked the hand forged item. I'm female, in my 70s and have a large collection of antique hand forged tools that I collected over 10 years from my local flea market in Japan. Some are for decoration but I also use many of them. Thank you George for your interesting videos and the knowledge you share.

@kvkosmosk3891 2 года назад

In response to your game: Prettiest: the big red setter dog. Most strange: a plastic torso wearing yellow shorts makes a repeated cameo b/t 16:20 & 16:50. Should have bought but didn't: the RC fish vase! (Or did you...?)

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Ooh! The red dog, good choice. The plastic torso, I did think that strange and unsalable. I debated the Copley fish vase but my two customers I knew would like it already have it...

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

🤣🤣

@beckytonn 2 года назад

love the 'bubblah' that's what we called them growing up in Mass. I moved to florida in 1996 and found out quickly they were called water fountains in the south! Now let us know when you find a 'hassick' to put your feet up on.

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Oh yes! An ottoman where I grew up in California, but my grandma from Iowa/Minnesota said Hassick

@margaretosborne905 2 года назад

Hi George! Did I hear you say you're heading for Portland, Oregon soon? Please let us know when & where? Thanks!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Yes! I'm selling at Rose City Vintage Market at Expo Center, July 8-9! I hope to see you there

@margaretosborne905 2 года назад

Wow, great!

@jeffplawrentz269 2 года назад

My favorite item you purchased was the hand forged fireplace tongs for $2. This was a fun journey and I enjoyed seeing the old houses.

@diannacashion2047 2 года назад

My Fave was the Salamander or Lizard Bracelet ….The old Tire Spoked Rim was unusual….That 80’s Kitsch Lamp was not so great for me….You were going through some jewelry and passed up on a vintage Blue Moon Glow Beaded Necklace. You had some very good luck at the end with that MCM Table!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I missed the moonglow beads, you're right! It's hard to focus sometimes while filming, I see stuff afterwards I missed sometimes as well. I thought the lizard was fun! The spoked rim, yes, agreed...and no one but me likes the lotus lamp lol

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

@@TheAntiqueNomad Will the lizard bracelet go on ebay, George, that was really my favorite!!!?

@cindiweber2838 2 года назад

I love following your channel. Your knowledge is amazing and I am learning a lot from you.

@seaside2001 2 года назад

I am jealous too of the great red setter dog in that truck. Interesting video as always. Just wish I could catch them all, but just not enough time in the day.

@judithderington-mcconnell6437 2 года назад

I’ve started following you courtesy of Tiffany of Thrifting Vegas and Danni The Niche Lady. I sold at curated Antiques Shoes in Dallas, Fort Worth and at Austin’s Citywide Garage Sale, now Citywide Vintage Sale after 40 years, and a 10 year stint with a permanent double booth on the grounds at First Monday in Canton, Texas. I’m now retired from my professional career as a attorney for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Region VI, Regional Office in Fort Worth. I have a fortune in inventory accumulated that I am looking to sell on eBay starting this coming fall. I couldn’t stop buying while having no place to sell after retirement. The shows, Austin and Canton became too physically taxing after my retirement. You are easy to listen to, articulate and interesting. I have traveled many places that you take us on your Vlogs. Good luck and keep on traveling! 🤗

@judithderington-mcconnell6437 2 года назад

I’d like to know more about membership in your business. Where do I learn more about that? Judy.

@TheAntiqueNomad Год назад

That is terrific! I really enjoy both their channels. I would love to have seen you in action at all those places, that sounds like me in the Northwest when the show circuit was booming. HUD must have been really interesting work as well! You will have fun selling online I'm sure, it's proving more interesting to me than I first imagined

@TheAntiqueNomad Год назад

If you go to the Membership line in the description of any video (way down below the dotted line), you'll find all the details about that. Thank you!!

@Kimo6612 2 года назад

Favorite thing was the little cup and saucer with the poinsettia on it.

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

That was sweet!

@iamgabriel5823 2 года назад

Those Bakelite ice cream scoops sell like crazy in my shop. People recognize that they just don't make quality like that anymore. Many buyers are purposely seeking items that were made in USA.

@gioiacasterline4835 2 года назад

I love shopping with you and hearing all about your knowledge of different items. Thanks George

@audreyknott4765 2 года назад

I have the exact same lizard bracelet!!! I just love it.

@levcath13 2 года назад

Awesome video and loved the birds chirping throughout it :)

@TheAntiqueNomad Год назад

Yes that was fun

@RoxyEwe 2 года назад

George, fun and informative! You are the best!! My first car was a used '72 olive green camaro! Loved it! My pop said he got it for me 'cause it was all steel!!😅

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

"'cause it was all steel!!" 😂😂

@teresadowns6845 2 года назад

Thanks for another great video. Looks like you are having fun.

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Sure am! Thanks

@vickiblackman6300 2 года назад

Hi George! The $2 lamp wins the ugly prize. 😀. Too many pretty things to choose!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Lol yes it was two conflicting styles but for that price I'm trying it

@sandrashort6563 2 года назад

Enjoyed watching this video.

@FossilForwardFinds Год назад

You keep visiting my geology haunts where I never met the people! Fairview, KY in this case! Great geology.

@TheAntiqueNomad Год назад

Oh interesting! The geology does change there but I don't know Kentucky geology well enough to know the significance

@dawnhaynes7784 2 года назад

Loved this

@BeckyFlansburg 2 года назад

Great video! The Lilli Ann vintage faux fur coat might have been a score. I sold a Lilli Ann wool coat for $500 this year!

@drifting_thrifters 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣 the horse said "hey sugar, how you doin'?" 😍🤣🤣

@jilldubeauzah9581 2 года назад

Watching The Antique Nomad and hearing your voice teach me new things is my happy place, George. Enjoying shopping yard sa ling without the worry of decision-making stresses. Fun!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Oh that's great! I enjoy doing that for you

@patriciadelisle2189 2 года назад

Hi George! I remember visiting my sister in Minnesota & going on a 12 mile Yardsale Excursion! I thought that was fun & wonderful. A 400 mile Yardsale would be quite something! Probably require camping along the way. It's fun to dig through old stuff to find the treasures! Even yard sales are getting savvy with their pricing! I too would have purchased the hand forged tongs for $2.00. Patty 🏡🌲🌞 Alberta 🇨🇦🍁

@MrNumbers446 2 года назад

@nemophilistnay Год назад

Well George, you asked. Prettiest: blue Camaro or pyrography art nouveau headboard or the green/gold table. Ugliest: well, unfortunately the turquoise jewelry you got looked like dyed howlite. 😔Weirdest: that the black metal table would be so much at retail; it’s so basic. 😃 Should have gotten: tile painted black box at second spot, if it was original. Might have been repro though… Pool table repurpose: take the top off one and use as sides/legs as mantle (indeed)/fireplace surround. I think it’s fascinating that there’s a commemorative to feminist/POC history in the south. 🥹

@TheAntiqueNomad Год назад

I think the pyrography headboard sounds like my choice! I agree the black table is simple, but that was the genius in its design, I suppose...and that's a thing about MCM designer originals. I think the black box was indeed a reproduction. The south is surprising to a lot of people, the prevailing sentiments have always drawn opposition and there are a lot of people from the south that became critics of the social order there

@nemophilistnay Год назад

@@TheAntiqueNomad that’s really good to know, beautiful really. Thank you. I’d love to travel south some day, but haven’t yet. New Orleans in the off-season calls…

@susanalfieri4487 2 года назад

My favorite was the glider bench--and the horses! Lol

@kellywood67 2 года назад

Tough one to guess what you passed up! I think you probably found the perfect things for your next show!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I felt lucky! There's more too

@iamgabriel5823 2 года назад

Great show. Thanks so much.

@joanpallatto3049 2 года назад

😊😊😊😊

@leahclo4857 2 года назад

Mantle!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Good idea!

@lynnedelacy2841 2 года назад

Ventilated stool for chamber pot ?

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

I thought that made sense but another commenter said her grandfather used his in the barn during milking - He would put (I think she was saying) hot coals in the bottom and would sit on the stool part and keep his "bum" warm. He'd also warm his hands each time he was going to milk the next cow!! 👋🙂

@lynnedelacy2841 2 года назад

@@barbarapettry6817 that makes more sense

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I thought that too but see Barbara's explanation

@kimberlywandle6821 2 года назад

Great content as usual. I enjoyed your commentary on the horses! LOL

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I couldn't help myself

@nanettemiller4462 2 года назад

Love it all thanks for sharing

@marilyndudek3356 2 года назад

I really love it when you show the historic places in the small towns. Thanks.

@laraemitchell9064 2 года назад

Enjoyed getting to see your shopping trip, as always. My favorite was seeing the modes of transportation. My personal favorites: the horses and the vintage Camaro! 💚💚💚

@lenorerubien8083 2 года назад

Never saw the beauty in old galvanized tubs. My vote for ugliest.

@persiphonehellecat 2 года назад

What would I do with one end of the billiard table? Turn it into a range hood!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Oh, that's smart! Yes to that

@persiphonehellecat 2 года назад

@@TheAntiqueNomad I have a degree in Interior Architecture/Design - got it when I was 50. I don't practice much but I do shop for people and call my business Turn the Tables Design with a Repurpose. My regular e bay store -- not yet active - is Granny's Vintage Gypsy. Except FB thinks Gypsy is a racist word so it has to be Gypsi there.

@kansaikennels 2 года назад

pool table...great doorway trim in house with tall ceilings

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Ooh good idea!

@lisbethmllegaard8437 2 года назад

Ugliest: that 80’ties lamp

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

🤣

@georgiamoon7513 Год назад

Enjoyed your Kentucky road sales,plus your knowledge 😊

@betsyroberts3779 2 года назад

I liked the typewriter table, as I have one like it! Not so much the pressed back chairs

@elizabethfrederick2434 2 года назад

thanks for the video

@diannekischitz8636 3 месяца назад

This kind of trip is EXACTLY what I want to do with George. Keep it up if you can!

@tontitik2125 2 года назад

😁

@Gigi-000 2 года назад

Y’all really need to carry large plastic shopping bags with you. Great stuff, I had several favorites.

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Yes we do!

@barbarapettry6817 2 года назад

Nah, I vote for something with wheels and collapsible!! 👋🙂

@marlagriffith3144 2 года назад

Again, a great and informative video. Thanks!

@azmike1 2 года назад

Great stuff! Riveting as always!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

Thanks again!

@janetpogue4970 10 месяцев назад

Looking forward to watching!!

@TheAntiqueNomad 10 месяцев назад

Hope you enjoy!

@kelleykelley549 2 года назад

❤️❤️❤️

@joannejohnston3996 2 года назад

So much fun! Thanks!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

You bet!

@CONSTELLATION_PEGASUS 2 года назад

Good evening, George! Flea markets/yard sales like that are always fun to browse through. You never know when Aladdin's lamp might just show up in "the cave" 😉 I used to use one of those old wall-mount post boxes as a washcloth and hand towel holder in a guest bathroom. It had a metal holder for a newspaper under it, so it held a hand towel really well. They work really good for that. I liked the large pickle jars with the metal bails and wood grips on them. I have my grandparents old metal porch furniture like that glider bench on our front porch. I had one of those chemistry lab kits when I was young. It's actually nice to see the 1930's beds that someone hasn't gaudily/chalk painted and/or turned into some sort of bench. It would be fun to browse all those areas...if this heat would go away. It's sweltering here. Thanks for the take-along!!!!!

@TheAntiqueNomad 2 года назад

I like those as guest towel holders too, I saw that in a b&b once and never herad of it again until now! A little secret-I get to check the box on the porch glider soon! My grandpa had a porch swing and I've recently gotten one in his honor, it's so neat that you have your grandparents' set. I also had a chemistry set but it was a leftover from an older kid so the fun chemicals were gone! I agree that the 1930s furniture is best left be, in particular I hate seeing veneer painted because it's so hard to undo! I hope you beat the heat