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A wonderful weekend pastime, it has long been a family hobby. A real treasure when you find one of an artist or a collector or an author and get a peak into their interesting life. Most things I own are from estate sales.

Here are a few tips:

1) Search for zip codes in the older more established neighborhoods of your city. You’ll often find more antiques that way.

2) The sale organizers usually do a good job of titling the sale, search based on what you’re looking for i.e. fashion, art, furniture. Skim through the photos and see if there’s anything specific that catches your eye, typically there’s more treasures like that.

3) If you go often enough you will begin to know the people who organize the sale. Some are much better at the job than others and you can start to visit their sales specifically.

4) Have a decent idea of what you’re looking for going in so you can have a somewhat curated search while you shop, but don’t be so tunnel-visioned that you miss a real treasure.

5) Google reverse image search is a great resource if you want to know what something is or its value.

6) The final days of the sale have steep discounts, sometimes it’s worth it to wait and shop those days.