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Stopped checking the front tables at estate sales and went straight for the basement shelves instead, found a 1937 Steinbeck for 50 cents
For a long time I was the guy who hit the front table at every estate sale in town, flipping through the same old paperbacks everyone else had already picked over. Last month in Cedar Rapids I decided to skip the front of the house and head straight for the basement and back bedroom shelves, and pulled a 1937 first edition Steinbeck off a dusty shelf for 50 cents. Now I'm wondering if I've been leaving the real stuff behind this whole time, what rooms do you all check first at a sale?
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oscar_jenkins3128d ago
This is the same thing that happens everywhere, not just estate sales. People crowd the shiny stuff in plain sight and walk right past the good stuff sitting in the back. Think about yard sales, everyone fights over the tools and bikes up front while the box of old letters and photos in the garage sells for a buck. Thrift stores do it too, the racks up front get picked clean while the back corner sits there for weeks. The front table is bait, it is what the family thinks is worth something. The basement shelf is where the real history hides because nobody bothered to look. You just figured out the whole game in one trip to Cedar Rapids.
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