Vintage JoAnn

It does’nt get better than this!!!!  My good friend Julie McLaughlin picked me up last Sat. at 8 am. to go to a HUGE community garage sale.

As anyone who knows me will attest to, this is about the only activity I will get out of bed for that early. I’m a night owl plus. Why did you think Vintage JoAnn does’nt open until the crack of noon??  Julie M. lives for this type of shopping and loves vintage everything as much as I do.  Plus she also buys for her adorable 13 yr. old Meredith who has the figure for some of the smaller vintage clothing we find.

It was 90* but we were armed with hats, shades, water bottles and our old lady carts.

I have never seen so many sales concentrated in my life!!!!!  Even the churches had their parking lots full of venders. Hundreds of people were shopping and the cars lined the streets for blocks.  They were even parking cars in the graveyard.  Not on the graves of course!!!

Julie has a bad knee and my body is disintagrating in new ways almost weekly so we knew that this was going to be grueling but oh so worth it.

As you can see I will indeed risk heat stroke to find the goods even though I will cancel a dentist appt. at the first glimmer of a mild headache.

We had a great time and were later joined by Julie’s sister Sarah.

I literally shopped til I dropped and Sun. I spent on the sofa recuperating.

The best sale of all was at the house of a dealer friend of Julie who had lots of excess stock and vintage clothing she wanted to get rid of.

I bought loads of beautiful 50′s dresses, shoes, and purses from her that were her mothers.

At other sales I uncovered vintage lingerie, 70′s flower print dresses, vintage face powder boxes, compacts, scarves, vintage dresser sets plus so much more.  I also added liberally to some of my own collections such as red 50′s kitchen ware.

By 3 we limped back to the car and headed home with our treasures.

Rick had manned the store in my absence and I finished the day there.

Even though my feet hurt, my knees and back ached and I got sunburned and dehydrated I can’t think of a better way to spend a day!!!!!!!

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