Thrift Share Monday - Sunset Magazines

Sunset Magazine 1965

The spring cleaning of my garage & home is going fairly well. The garage was nearly emptied and much of it was sold on Saturday at our yard sale to the sweet tune of $1260.

By Friday morning though I was pretty tired of dealing with "stuff" and the idea of going to estate sales didn't sound very appealing.

While Dave and Cerys ran our yard sale, Keiran and did go out to see if we could find a few sales. I do like to find enough book inventory for the week to sell on Amazon. I still wasn't very much in the mood though. We only went to one sale in the end, a hoarder's sale in the hills, north of Santa Rosa. The sale had started on Thursday and this was the last day. The Estate Sale was the kind where the hoarder saved everything from newspapers, to magazines, to egg cartons and even pickles from th 1960's. It was as if time stood still in that house. I was kicking myself for not being there on Thursday despite being tired of "stuff." Oh the irony of being at thrifter.....

Sunset Magazine featuring Washington State Ferries

There is a part of me that is glad that hoarders exhist in our world. Well I should add the thrifter in me says that. Hoarders save a slice of history that most of us would just throw away. While a Starbucks disposable cup is just garbage to us after enjoying the contents, imagine what a person today would feel emotionally finding a preserved one in 40 years time. Nostalgia stirs up feelings and emotions and has the magic ability to transport us to the past.

That's how I felt in the Hoarder's home. I was carried back in time as I picked up vintage packages, old newspapers and food packaging. Keiran who of course doesn't have these ties to the past still got a kick out of the digging aspect. He loved rummaging and searching for hidden finds.

I want this house

The Sunset Magazines were especially fun to find as they feature mid century modern home designs, old advertising, vintage recipes and what the West Coast was like in the 1960's.

Vintage Ad for Polaroid Sunglasses

Don't these glasses look rather futuristic?

Pan Am

My parents & I traveled to Europe when I was 15 years old. We flew Pan Am and I think of that fabulous journey every time I see the old Pan Am logo.

If I had heaps and heaps of money, I'd buy a time capsule house from the 1960's as well as one from the 1970's. I'd spend my days filling it with items from that time including old food packaging in the kitchen. I'd then open them both as museums to let people walk back in time and experience life back then.

As thrifters, we all have our part in salvaging vintage items from yard sales, rummage sales and estate sales. Sure some of us sell them but usually they go to collectors who for the most part will be caretakers to these items of the past. Some people may put their nose down at Dealers but I think we are in a way historians, saving little bits of the past every week. We should all be proud of what we do as Thrifters & ReSellers.

What emotions do you feel when you come across something vintage at a sale?

Did you go thrifting this weekend?

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Comments

[Plucky Maidens]

Good morning, Selena,
Love old Sunset magazines, especially from the 1960's. I have just posted the first of several (many?!) posts I'll be writing about my first junking trip to Texas. It was amazing!
xoxo and Happy Spring....finally!
Pam

[one gal's trash]

Sorry....correct link is here:
http://onegalstrash.blogspot.com/

[Joy M]

Your discussion on just the magazine part of your post gave me much to consider. I passed up several hundred old magazines, all boxed and bagged because I could not face the huge amount of work involved in dealing with them (let alone the physical labour involved). As a dealer I like the thought of preserving/passing on vintage and older pieces of history to others. Good thought. Can you imagine museum homes - great thought as well.

Thanks as always for hosting Thrift Share Monday.

Joy

[Marianne]

That is an amazing day with your garage sale!!! We usually don't make more than $100 :-) Also, I love those Sunset magazines.

[Vintage Scapes]

I love vintage sunset magazines and after a long hiatus from buying them I caved in this week. I haven't been to many hoarder estate sales but for some reason the couple of 'estate sales' I went to in Northern California were all hoarder estates.

[The Thrifty Picker-Rachael]

When I find vintage I have a feeling of excitement and respect. Also, appreciation, for how well items were made back then.

[angelika]

i didn't do any thrifting this weekend - i was too busy with Good Friday and Easter stuff (coordinating an Easter art show at my church and playing in a Good Friday Blues service at a local coffee shop - with my son, which was really cool) but i have enjoyed stopping by here and reading/seeing your finds - and feel jealous again about the amount of estate sales you go to. whenever i see a panam logo, i think of "catch me if you can"!

[Joann@womaninreallife]

I don't feel so guilty about saving all of my Oprah mags now! ;)

[Alicia]

Your time capsule house idea is brilliant! I would love to visit something like that!

[Beth]

I LOVE vintage magazines. It's so interesting to read the articles and look at the ads to see what the culture was like during a certain decade. I have a growing collection of Better Homes & Gardens issues from the '60s and '70s and love reading them.

[Christine]

Whenever I see stuff from the 70s while thrifting I think back to being a small child and how everything and everybody looked. I get nice memories and feelings and always say to myself: "I wish younger people knew how cool the 70s really were." Sounds so old, hahaha, but that's ok.

Christine

[Van]

I love the magazines! So jealous of your big successful yard sale, too. I never sell big at yard sales no matter how much I plan ahead or work at it.

[pam]

I think people like us are different than what I call "dealers" those are what I call all the people who come in and just scoop stuff up b/c they "think" it is valuable, then when they resell it they mark it up so ridiculously high that it never sells. You see it in their shops for years and they never budge. I feel like they aren't trying to preserve anything and often let the items get destroyed or tossed out by relatives who don't want to deal with it later when their booths and stores close. I'm glad when I see someone who intends on using it or selling it at reasonable costs to people who truly appreciate the items. There are a lot of people who just don't have the time to do estate sales so they are glad to pay for the work we do for them.

[cap creations]

Yeah we should be proud, thanks for the encouragement!

[Suzanne aka Punk Glam Queen]

Whoa, I can't believe you made so much on your garage sale! We rarely make over a few hundred dollars, so the time and effort involved is hardly worth it. I love and collect vintage Sunset books, so much so that I had to give myself a cut-off and now only collect from the very early 70s and older. They are always filled with amazing vintage home and great ideas for projects you can DIY to look vintage.
PS love the blog, just found it over the weekend!

[jeux casino]

Nice, good news thanks !

[Matthew Engquist]

Thrift sales, while technically a business conducted only occasionally, are still very exciting events to go to. It's always nice to know that the old stuff doesn’t just get thrown away to occupy landfill space. What's more, there's always that unsuspecting antique/collectible waiting to be sold.

[DogsMom]

I did not make it to this sale but it began Monday and people were sleeping in cars overnight to be first allowed in.
http://www.wisn.com/news/30842738/detail.html

[Rob Hunt]

Thanks for hosting. I finally got a post up so I can join in this week. I liked your post about selling books. You shared very helpful information.
Rob