Hi people! Wow - a second blog post this year. Maybe next year I'll try for 3. So here's a rundown on what happened in 2023. I have decluttered some stuff....even had to clean out a spare room earlier in the year to be able to have a family member visit. That was a job. Overall, I did well selling at a local flea market. I am getting more and more frustrated with eBay. The fees, the customers, the hassle etc. Much easier to just look for gold at yardsales and then bring it to my favorite pawn shop for scrap. A few weeks ago, I spent $7 on 7 pieces of jewelry at a yardsale and sold 5 pieces to ..read more

Liz Weston from Nerdwallet interviewed me a little while ago for this article she did about yardsales. It's been published in a gajillionn places since it's an Associated Press article. Just wish the yardsalequeen.com mention was a clickable link. Anyhow, here is the article How to make more green at your next yardsale And I did another interview for Woman's World magazine (a woman's magazine seen at supermarket checkouts), which should be out sometime this month. I am definitely "rusty" when it comes to doing interviews since it's been a few years since I did one. Been trying to declutter t ..read more

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Overall, 2021 was a pretty good year. Much better than 2020, that's for sure. Except one thing happened in 2021 that I hope to never repeat again. I hit a bear. Yes, a live wild bear that was in rural northern Wisconsin. We had gone there for a birthday party. Because the area is so rural, there are no rental car places, so we borrowed a car from a family member while there. It was a quick trip, we only spent 3 nights in Wisconsin and one night in Minneapolis. As I was driving from one small town to another, out of the corner of my eye, I see a bear come out of nowhere and it was running str ..read more

Is is too late to wish you a Happy 2021? I hope not. So far, so good as far as 2021 for me. We are all fully vaxxed here at the castle. Despite that, my husband caught covid from an unvaccinated golfer friend. But symptons were mild and he was fine. Been busy back at selling at my local flea market. It never opened in 2020, but did this year. Happy saling, chris ..read more

2020 is almost over - Thank God!   Even how overall crappy this year was, I managed to get some deals that made me happy.  Here is some of my favorite buys (and an awesome freebie) I scored in 2020. Three out of the four came from people posting stuff for sale on Facebook. My usual flea market that I sell at nearly every weekend, never opened in 2020.  So I had to explore other selling options.  There were a few random fundraising yardsales I sold at (Humane Society yardsale etc) and I was able to sell about twice a month at a firehouse fundraising yardsale.  It ..read more

Well we are getting there - every day another day closer to end of 2020. I hope I am not jinxing 2021, but I hope we don't look back at 2020 and think "you know, it really wasn't that bad compared to now". Yardsales - of course - got off to a rough start in 2020, but they have been slowly getting better. My regular flea market that I normally sell at is still closed, but in the meantime I found a local firehouse that has a yardsale twice a month and in some ways it is much better than my regular flea market. I spent some time at my mom's in upstate NY recently. Upstate NY garage sales are t ..read more

It was just a few months ago that I wished everyone a happy first quarter of 2020. And I was complaining about nothing much being new. Luckily everyone at the yardsalequeen castle is staying physically healthy. Mentally?? I may be losing some marbles and desperately need some yardsale fleamarket time for some mental health therapy but that is not happening anytime soon. The flea market place that is my home away from home on Saturdays is taking a year off because of Covid19. I have been selling stuff on ebay, staying busy, eating and then doing more eating. I am planning on visiting my mother ..read more

Well I could have sworn I had posted at least once so far in 2020. I guess not - I'm thinking of 2019. Let's see what's new....not much! My son is now an almost 20 year old grown ass man, he has a car and works at a very nice waterfront retirement community. It's a perfect job for him and he loves it. I am getting ready to start selling at the local fairgrounds flea market starting in April (It's closed for winter). I bought a She Shed in 2018 and I have it full of stuff that I need to sell. Oh....and in case you forgot...THE NATIONALS WON THE WORLD SERIES IN 2019!!!! The yardsalequeen house ..read more

This is just a note to any family member or friend reading this way off in the way, way, way distant future.  I do not want my funeral on a Saturday.  It will cut into people's yardsale time. Also a warning to my family and friends - if you have to schedule your funeral for a Saturday - the least you can do is have it late in the day. Here is an actual text I received from a friend this past Saturday. She stopped at a funeral on the way to her Mother-in-Law's funeral.  The MIL enjoyed yardsales herself, so I'm sure she was ok with Marilyn being a little late to it ..read more