I need Identification Help - Recognize This Wind Up Toy Cat?

Update: Found! Someone on the eBay Toy board shared this link to a completed auction: LINK I guess I was using the wrong keywords. Thanks!

I found this going through the estate sale boxes in the barn. It does not have any tags or marks. It is an antique child's toy cat. The key to wind it is missing. Does anyone recognize it? Thanks for looking.

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Vintage Pyrex Cinderella Bowl - Pattern Identification

My sweet Mama is trying to kill me with kindness. There is a mountain of stuff in my barn from that estate sale. I haven't a place to put another box! I worked all weekend, doing my nurse thing. Today will be the first day I will have a chance to start climbing "junk mountain."

 My sweet Mama went to yard sales despite the mountain. She loves me, and I love her. But if she brings another box of stuff in my house before I can sell some of this stuff I may cry. More likely I will just shake my head an laugh. Y'all don't call A&E & put me on hoarders. I really am going to do something with it all. 

She bought a vintage Betty Crocker Cookbook. It isn't the red pie one that I love to sell but still nice. There is also a  2 1/2 Qt Pyrex bowl. See the tabs on the sides? You can pour from those. No matter the pattern they are called Cinderella bowls if they have the tabs. There are several sites that you can Google to help id your patterns. This one is my favorite. (No I don't know the author & it isn't a paid link.) In about 5 seconds I had my pattern identified. It is definitely a link worth saving. Although mine isn't worth much I am happy to know the pattern name, Early American. It used to take hours of digging through pattern books in the old days.

I am linking up with Apron Thrift Girl & Coastal Charm.

 

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Recent Sales & Esate Sale Buyout Update

I am home today, resting. My barn is full of stuff. FULL. The trailer we hauled it home on is large and has wood panels on 3 sides like a dump truck with a metal gate on the back. We have filled it to the brim twice. There is one trailer load of items left to be loaded and brought home when my husband gets off from work today. We had a little "help" from a thief or two when we weren't there. I am glad I brought the best stuff home first! I will start going through it all this weekend and will keep you all up to date. As of this posting I have sold $88. I paid $250 for all of it.

Remember the Yardsellr post? I have sold $134.98 since I listed a (very few) items there. NO fees for sellers! I did offer free shipping but that was my choice to do so.  I will definitely keep listing my lower end things there.

I have had a few nice eBay sales, including this Counsances Le Crueset pan for $50 this morning. It was from the estate auction where I bought the Bulls hat and Revere Ware. It is all profit less the fees on all of the cookware. That was a good sale, and I pay a lot more attention to pots and pans now.

Counsances Le Crueset Sauce Pan $50

Revere Ware 3qt Pan $20.95

West Bend Town House $12.50

West Bend Town House $12.50
Oh and the nicest of the dresses sold!

 

 

 

Carriage Boutiques Smocked Dress $22

That's enough - I don't plan to bore you by reporting every sale. Those items I had posted about previously & I thought you would be interested to see how they turned out. I have one pending return on a jacket for fit reasons despite my measurements in the listing.  (I DO NOT LIKE the new return guidelines to get reduced seller fees!) I have sold several jackets lately despite the warm temps. I have alsohad several non-paying bidders.  I am still pleased with my recent sales results overall.

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Buying Estate Sale Leftovers - Excited Insanity!

Oh dear, I have stepped in it now! I went to an estate sale on Friday morning. Not a lot of antiques or high dollar items but a lot of volume.  I spent a little money and was happy. When I was writing the check my mouth accidentally mumbled that I would be interested in making an offer on anything that was left over after the sale. They were quick to tell me someone else had offered already but took my number. I went on to my job and forgot.

It was a busy, crazy work weekend. On Saturday my phone rang and they asked me to come make an offer. I was hot, tired, and busy working. I explained that I worked until 3 but could come after that. They waited. It had been moved into a carport and covered patio. It is piles of boxes and hard to see. I made an offer, they countered a small amount more and I accepted. So I am spending my day off tomorrow hauling it home.

I know it looks like piles of junk but so far I found a gas powered push mower, truck bed tool box, 3 ladders, 4 rocking chairs, a dining table, multiple lamps, baby changing table, sewing table, end/coffee tables, bicycle, sewing items, and much more. I will post updates and better pictures soon.

I am linking up with Apron Thrift Girl's Thrift Share Monday & Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

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Giveaway Time! Seacret Nail Care Collection - Pamper Yourself!

I am off work the next two days from work and am listing as much as I can in our eBay store. It will likely be a few days before I can post here again.

I bought one of these for myself and bought one to give to a friend. I forgot where it was and so bought her something else. Surely I am not the ONLY one you know who could hide her own Easter eggs?  It was hidden in plain sight the whole time. I will just give it to one of you!  This is super nice & sells for $25. It makes your hands feel soft and smells great (Vanilla & Coconut scented). It is a body lotion, buffing block, cuticle oil, and nail file.  Open to US & Canada readers, ends 3/30/12.

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Smocked Dresses... Oh How I Love Them!

If you have toddler dress clothes it is time to get them listed. They Easter buyers are out.  I especially love smocked bishop dresses like this one:

  I listed a a few yesterday. We picked them up at the thrift store on Friday. The counters are showing that a lot of people are looking. This pretty one sold right away. I paid $4, it sold for $20. 

Aren't these pretty? 

I am linking up with Apron Thrift Girl & Coastal Charm. Be sure to take a peek!

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Yardsellr - Fee Free Place To Sell

I am always tying to figure out what to do with the leftovers when I buy things by the table full at auctions. There are good usable items that won't sell on eBay due to shipping costs. Yardsales are one way, but you have to store it, price it, and spend all day haggling.

I have mentioned before that I sell in local groups on Facebook. It is a good way to get rid of big stuff like furniture or small dollar items. There are groups for most areas, just search by your county or city. Last week I started using Yardsellr too. It attaches to your Facebook account. You can choose to allow local pickups, ship, or both. There are NO seller fees. The buyer pays a small fee. Yeehaw! You can also import your eBay and Etsy listings. They will send you a check or you can take Paypal. I chose a check, no fees at all for me that way.

I put a few things on to check it out. 7 or 8 initially. It takes just seconds to list. I sold one pretty quickly so will be adding more.  You can choose to pay for "boosts" to bring more traffic but I chose not to, wanting a completely free place to sell for a change.  If you want to check it out there is a link to my stuff on my facebook page, or click here.  At this time there are no benefits for referrals except some stupid points program called photons, which are points that you can use towards purchases. These seem to disappear as soon as you get them so I hope they discontinue that. It looked confusing at first. It is the only part of the site I didn't like. 

As long as it is free I plan to list lower end items to help get that stuff out of here. Have any of you used it successfully?

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Fun Find - Buzz Lightyear Wing Pack

Here is a new one for the list! My mom found it last weekend at a yard sale. It is a Buzz Lightyear Wing Pack. You unfold it and your kiddo wears it on his/her back to pretend to fly/be Buzz. It talks. Current completed auctions show 100% sell-through for used ones. The price ranges are from $59.99 to $9.99. It looks like the lower end prices were mostly auctions, not fixed price items. I will definitely  put mine in the store with a best offer feature. If you have an item that is easily found on eBay and not hard to find I always put it in the store around the highest price with a best offer available. Many times I get the full asking price. $60 for a yard sale toy is awesome!

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I Am Being Childish... Russell Wright Seal Paperweight

I have no problem admitting I know little about art. In rural AR the closest we get to art is usually the internet, or my 2nd grader's watercolors :) I do appreciate beauty when I see it. But some things I just don't understand. To my untrained eye this looks like something you would flush. I am happy for the seller, though.  I don't know him/her, someone on one of the eBay boards pointed it out. It is a Russell Wright Seal Paperweight. It sold for $356. What do you think about it? Would you have picked this up at a thrift store & thought it was treasure?

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The Resale Shopping List Finally Started

Ok I had a few minutes to start a resale shopping list. It is only a very small beginning. I couldn't figure out a way to let you guys edit on your own without getting spam that I will have to spend time removing. Shoot me an email or leave a comment on the shopping list page if you want to add something to the list.  It is at the top of his page, or you can just click here.

If you have a great sale/surprise on an item and want me to feature you and your listings just drop me an email with your info. I am looking for things we all could find at a sale, not a rare special edition or impossible to find antique. 

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Yard Sale Find: 1980 Yoda Halloween Costume

I worked all weekend (boo, hiss lol) so didn't get to go to any yard sales. I believe there were 5 in my little town. Mama went though, and look what she found! 

This is dated 1980, and is Yoda from Star Wars. I LOVE IT! In 1980 I was in kindergarten. I remember wearing these kinds of costumes. The plasic is heavy and thick compared to today's versions. The masks were hard to see out of & were held on with elastic that pulled your hair. It is funny the little things you remember from childhood. I can stand confused in the grocery store, not remembering what I came in there to get but I remember the way the plastic smelled when you tried to breathe in the masks 30 + years ago.

Why is he blue? The Yodas I see when I do a quick Google search are green. I will have to do a little more digging, but I suspect that next Halloween he will be worth much more than the $2 she paid for him.

I am linking up with Apron Thrift Girl for Thrift Share Monday, & Coastal Charm's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday.

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GFC Ending. Please Like Us On Facebook and/or Subscribe by Email

GFC  (Google Friend Connect) is ending. I love it and am afraid I will lose touch with blogs I read everyday.  Google has decided to end the program so we have to use something else. We don't want to lose touch with any of you. There are two other options, and we would love it if you would choose both! Subscribing by email is one way. The box to do that is on the right side of this blog. If you use Facebook please click here and like Dj's Dusty Attic so that you will continue to see new posts.

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Chicago Bulls Hat SOLD!! + Update On The Seller List Idea

Today was thrift store day.  They had bagged up a lot of Winter items into 33 gallon trash bags. For $1 a bag.  No way to resist that! Plus all the kids clothes were a quarter. This store is on the second floor with a huge staircase leading up to it. Ugh. Do you know how heavy 33 gallon bags of clothes are? I resorted to rolling the bags down. We crammed 8 huge bags into the car.  I kept maybe 30 things. A NWT $90 coat,  a NWT $40 skirt, some jeans for my kids & a few more things for eBay.  Ugh that still leaves 8 pretty full bags of stuff. Perfectly good nice usable items. There are so many it took us at least an hour to go through all of the bags.

 I don't like to waste anything but I do not have the space to hold that many bags of items. I promptly contacted a friend that sells on consignment. If she does ok with these I am going to start sending her a lot of things to sell. Many, many things lol.

While I was trying to decide what to do with all of those bags my phone made the best offer sound the eBay app makes. I went running to check on it. It was an offer on the Chicago Bulls Hat.  Sold for $44.99! Happy dance!

I work this weekend but I wanted you to know I read all of the comments about making a seller list. I will begin as soon as I get some time off. Thinking about a simple way to make a page that allows anyone to add to it. You are welcome to email me or comment with suggestions. I know I want it organized by category if possible. I am hoping to feature some of your surprise or "wow" sales then add those to the list also. It would be a great way to let all of us see what you are selling.

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