The major estate sale guru here reduces prices 25 percent on
the last hour of his Saturday sale. Everything is half
price on Sunday and the last hour he takes 75 percent off.
He had a sale going on six blocks from me Saturday. It was
an extremely good one because the owner was wealthy. I go
the first day and pick out what I want, place a bid a few
dollars over half price and wait. I placed a bid on an
empire bench and they didn't call so I assumed I had lost it,
so I also wanted the white marble coffee table and Ted's
philosophy is bid high and shut everyone else out. Mine is
the aforementioned just over half price. I knew I had to get
there early so I went at l2 to stand in line for opening at
one. There was one woman already there and two more coming.
The closets were stuffed with designer clothes and there must
have been 250 pairs of shoes. By opening there were l00
people in line, cars parked every which way. They were late
calling me and telling me that I had the bench so I immediately bought the coffee table and went to excavate the
closets.

Suffice it to say that I had acquired a Lily Rubin for four
dollars and an Adolfo for two dollars and a white watered
silk dress for 2.00. The tags were still on the clothes.
I got a number of blouses also.

It was an exhausting afternoon. I stood helplessly holding
the marble top to the coffee table and some big strong guy
carried it to the car for me. I was immensely grateful
and Max and his son in law carried it into the house for
me.

Part of the big fun was watching the oriental girls with
tiny feet trying on furs and shoes. One couldn't bring
herself to take her fur coat off and was wearing it in the
85 degree heat.

I hope the girl that was trying to buy a bookshelf found
it...There was a glass one still in the living room. I pointed her to it. She was third in line and deserved it.

I made one foolish purchase. I bought a full length leather
coat with enormous shoulder pads and am thinking I might
have it redone but it is so 80's although it is very good
quality black leather. Oh well, I only blew four dollars
on it and it would be perfect for a power outage.

Now, I am wondering why I am sore all over. Two dogs
accompanied me on my walk and I hope they went back home
because the dog catcher is vigilant. One was a young
German Shepard and the other a little black yip yip dog of
dubious parentage.

That was my big weekend fun and I met a lot of different
people and was fascinated with some of the things they
were hoping to find. A lot of them go in order to resell
on ebay. The house was wonderfully laid out, entry between
the large living room and dining room, kitchen, butlers
pantry, study , family room and wonderfully big sun room.
and four bedrooms. I wish it had been available when we
were looking.