Yard Sale-ing 2009

This has been a strange year for yard sales. In our cold climate we don't have sales year round like some of you warmer weather girls. So when it's spring time we do a little happy dance and off we go. Only this year it has rained almost every. single. weekend. Until two weeks ago when it was the 4th of July! Last week we finally had a dry, warm, non-holiday weekend. There were 2,463 yard sales listed on Craig's List here on the Wasatch Front. The first sale I hit was about 20 minutes away. It was advertised as an estate sale. The woman who had lived there had just been admitted to a care center and some "relatives" were cleaning out her house. I found this bag in the garage and took a peek. It was filled with vintage linens...

Most of it was hand embroidered, some had tatted or crocheted edgings. There were four or five of those old card tablecloths with matching napkins. I remember my grandma having a few sets used only when her friends came over to play canasta.
I Love Lucy would've loved this apron...
I found a package with a linen piece in it from Hawaii. The post mark was 1942 and there was a stamp on it that said Passed by Army Censor. I wonder if this was from a husband or boyfriend. The woman never had any children, could he have been killed during WWII?

It was still in the package. Could it have been too painful for her to use it? Can you tell I love a good mystery?

Most of it's in pretty bad shape, yellowing, stains, mouse damage, but I'm getting out the oxiclean and starting to work.

I found a few other things at the estate sale. An old ice cream maker and a lard bucket made out of wood. They both need a plant in them, don't you think?

An old suitcase...

A red child size folding table and a croquet set...

Total cost for all these treasures? Ten dollars. Don't you love finding a great yard sale?