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Best Yard Sale Find Ever

March 7, 2013 by SmartGirl Leave a Comment

My mom is constantly telling me that the bureau I have in my entrance way is the nicest piece of furniture in my house.  She means it as a dig, as in, “None of the other furniture you have in your house is nice.”   Which is fine, whatever!Best Yard Sale Purchase

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She also knows that I paid only $25 for it, because she was with me when I bought it.  It was during the two months that my husband, kids and I were homeless.  Well, not really, but we had sold our old house and couldn’t move into our new one for two months.  We lived with my  in-laws.  We moved in with them when my son was 5 weeks old and my younger daughter was 18 months.  Crazy!  I don’t know how we did it.

Anyway… My mom and I were walking down the street, cruising for yard sales, when we came across a yard sale and saw this bureau with a sign on it that said $50.  I was definitely interested.  There was also a scale I wanted.  So I went up to the guy and was going to ask if I could have the dresser and scale for $50, but I guess he was expecting me to haggle because he immediately said I could have the dresser for $25!!!  Awesome!!  And my mom agreed to let me leave it at her house for two months because I had no where else to put it.  Bonus.  Oh, and it looked just like that I bought it.  I didn’t have to do anything to it!  Double bonus!!

So where is this town with such awesome yard sales?  It’s a small beach town on the Jersey Shore called Ocean Grove.  Most of the shops are on a 3 block stretch of Main Street, but there are always yard sales.  Twice a year the town hosts a very popular flea market along with several craft shows.  The flea market takes place on the grass stretch called Ocean Pathway.

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If you’re ever in the area you should check it out!

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