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I went to a bunch of yard sales yesterday.

Went to one where they just had boxes upon boxes sitting out to go through. I found a sterling silver International prelude plate. I asked the guy how much he wanted for it and he told me $4. I also found some nice silver plate stuff and a silver on copper mug and gave him $5 for those items. So I definitely scored I even paid him in halves.

The funny thing is about 5 minutes later a guy was going through all the silver plate stuff with a magnifier and saw me with the stuff I had bought and asked me if that stuff was sterling.

I felt lucky to beat him to the punch

The sterling silver plate weighs 334 grams. So over $190 of silver for $4

Then I went to a sale several blocks away and it was all junk but asked the woman if she had any junk jewelry and she went into her trailer and brought out a bunch of little baggies; it was all junk but I saw in one of the bags a bunch of junk jewelry but I saw a little disney charm and saw 14k at the topof the clasp. I asked her how much she wanted for the baggie and she said $1. Weighed the charm and it was 1 gram of gold.

Pretty good yard sale score for the day

nice finds!

Great finds.you gonna sell it or wait for price to rise?

That's what I'm talking about! Nice finds and thanks for sharing the story. It would be a good addition to this thread:

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all the yard sales I've been to have had NOTHING good at all, I guess persistence is key

Oh, I just remembered an interesting story. Ok, so I'm at this yard/garage sale, and I overhear these older guys talking about pennies, so I perk up and move a little closer while not making it obvious that I'm eavesdropping. Then I hear that they're talking about COPPER PENNIES, and they're trying to remember "which year in the early 80's did they stop makin' those?" By this time they could tell I was interested in the discussion, so I told them about switching in the middle of 1982 and how some people are saving them for their metal value...etc." They thanked me and then I left. Thinking back a little later, I marveled at the odds of these guys talking about copper pennies at all (it's not exactly a hot topic for non-realcenters), let alone when I would be there to hear it!

Edit: Almost forgot, nice score and congratulations! KA-CHING!

I never find and coins or good jewelry at yard sales, they want good money for the junk jewelry around here.