Estate Sale Picks - JMS Estate Sales and Carolina Estate Sales

Decided to go to a couple sales this weekend and ended up starting at a first day sale with Carolina Estate Sales and a second day 2 house sale with JMS Estate Sales. Both a positive overall experience.

Carolina Estate Sales

This sale was in the North Raleigh area and less than 10 miles from the house. Mostly mid-upper end stuff and we didn’t make any huge effort to get there too early, opting to stop in 1 hour before, get our number, and go check out a few garage sales in the area (which didn’t yield much). This sale was the type I tend to enjoy the most because the people (Staff and customers) were all super nice, prices were reasonable as much as could be expected for a 1st day sale and we ended up with some decent picks. This was the first time we did one of the Carolina Estate Sales and were very pleased overall. A solid professional crew.

JSM Estate Sales

This sale with JMS was a combination of a tag sale and a picker sale.  I decided not to go there on the first day as it was a very large sale with 2 houses and 2 out-buildings; just tons of stuff (although didn’t know it at the time). We found more than our share of sellable item here and while there was probably better stuff on the first day, not messing with the crowd and competition made this a more fun and relaxing opportunity. John as always was very fair on the pricing (the more you buy, the more he will discount) and we ended up with quite a bit of sellable content. We will head back tomorrow to see if we can get a few other things we had our eyes on. Here are some pics of our picks…




Sunday Update: We went for the last day 50% off at the JMS estate sale and ended up with a ton more items. We spent probably close to 3 hours just digging and picking. We got so much, had to stage it all in the garage and work through it and clean stuff. Zabrina got a bunch of planters and gardening things for personal use, while I found a nice entry level mat board cutter, lots of plexiglass, and some metal frames…and have wanted to get into doing my own framing. Now I have most of the key items to start it out. They had some amounts of mat board, but they were heavily foxing and just not worth the purchase. Also got 5 or 6 original water colors by the local artist for which some of the estate contents were for (Jean Hight)…we picked some of the more interesting ones and will see how they do. Fun day!







I think the find of the weekend was the below Nippon Morimura Brothers (c1910s) Tea Set, it cleaned up incredible well and a mesmerizing thing to look at.

In Summary

A good weekend overall and didn’t spend a ton of money (well, maybe half a ton).

John

Comments

Post a Comment

No URLs, I delete comments which appear to be be advertising.

Popular posts from this blog

eBay Sales Cycles, Best Times of the Month and Week To Sell

Image
  Most of this is common sense but like everything else, may have variations depending on category. I have been looking over the sales trends for about a year since and now that I am setting most of my listings as Promoted Listings, it makes it easier to see monthly and weekly sales trends.  Observations: Common paycheck periods definitely have a major play with 1st and 15th of the month (starting a day before) being the biggest sales periods of the month, especially for higher priced listings. But I have found to take the best advantage of it, have your listings posted a week in advance if possible. I did a large number of listings 2 days before the end of the month and they seemed to have missed the wave. People have probably already made up their minds days in advance on bigger purchases. Government paychecks go every 2 weeks and can be found pretty easily with a Google Search . Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are generally the worst days of the week with it bottoming out on Tuesdays.
Read more

SecondMoonshot Font (Freely Available) and New Kiss Sticker

Image
Carrie (our VP of Branding) has been working on some new computer design skills and refining them for almost a year now and is near completion of a custom font called “SecondMoonshot”. Our original vision was to maintain the hand drawn theme similar to our logo and this font is 100% made up from her own print handwriting. Creating fonts is much more complex than it sounds and she had to overcome several challenges. This week during a road trip, she pulled out her iPad and she filled in some missing characters we wanted and this will be our v1 version. She’s making a few final tweaks and the SecondMoonshot logo is even one of the characters! Our intent is to use this font for our printed materials such as the company info inset sheet which I put into every package shipped. Then we were looking to get a new kiss sticker (from stickermule.com) which I use to also include with hanging hardware for any framing job or picture sold. This work is top level professional work and very excited ab
Read more

Special Guest Appearance to the SecondMoonshot Warehouse!

Image
Every time I see my kids, it’s special….this was no exception. Carrianne is my oldest and well known for her impeccable choice of fashion as you will agree with the one-of-a-kind t-shirt (well, 6 of-a-kind technically). She just moved into a new house (rental for now while she saves and invests at a mammoth pace for a home to call her own). She was on the hunt for vintage (I.e. free) furniture and acquired a nice wood veneer computer desk, dining room table and 2 dressers.  She is the one that created the SecondMoonshot current logo and created its own font! How cool is that. Her second job is VP of Branding for SecondMoonshot…honorary title as it comes with no pay, but she earned it. John
Read more