  I went to some estates sales today. I really enjoy going to them to shop for jewelry and vintage clothes.
Now that I have graduated college and am looking to get my own place soon my focus is shifting to furniture and such. Anyway so I spend many weekends this past semester going to estate sales. Now that I am here in VA I had to check out what the scene was like here. Prices are a bit higher, but the treasures are way better! The first house I went to seemed more like a divorce sale than and estate sale in which someone died.
Way overpriced in my opinion. The second sale was at a house which also served as a dental office (attached to one side). I got some really neat old library style index card files draws which will act nicely in holding recipes etc. Also got some file trays for my classroom, nice and wood--should hold up better than any plastic ones I might find at a teacher supply store.
There were some really neat dental pieces for sale--but seeing the dental chair attached to the house was kind of creepy. The third sale I went to ended up being the house of urlLink Sonny Jurgenson . There wasn't much there that interested me. But you could buy his Redskins blazer for almost 400 dollars. The house was huge though, and right on the water--I bet the property had to be worth a couple million. 
