Flea Mkt. Finds
 

What have you found lately that is good for the prepper at a flea market?

My latest find (score?) was a genuine Corona grinder priced at 20$, just looking at it a little longer than normal brought an adjustment in price to 18$. A little more stalling an hesitation got it for 15$.:grin:

I've been getting the canning jars with the hinged flip top lid with the rubber gasket. You can get replacement gaskets on amazon.com. I'm putting dehydrated items in the jars.

A riveter forge for $40, and it came with a hand powered blower. :bouncy:

Oh yeah! good one!:)

We have a flea market at our local farm auction,killing many birds with one stone. Probably my best buy was a #14 Griswold frying pan with Lid for $40.

Not really a flea market.... But I got a Food Saver V1095 at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago for $3.00.... They wanted $10 and it came with some bags.

Squeezo Strainer, still in the box with papers. $10.00
Handful of Craftsman wrenches. $5.00
Some sort of German chisels (can't remember the name, but husband was delighted) .50
Tons of canning jars, ten cents each.
All of this in the last two months.

Demeter

An 8 cup stainless steel percolator coffee pot (stovetop) for $5. I was tickled, been wanting one for a long time but did not want an aluminum.

Found a queen size down comforter for $5 at Goodwill.

DH and I found a "push mower" .. the kind that's "man powered" not "motor powered" for $30 brand new :)

I'm heading to Front Royal, Va tomorrow to check out their flea market. Hopefully I won't forget to bring some money, went to the yard crawl in Va. a couple weeks ago with $23. Needless to say I didn't buy much.

On Saturday, I got an adz in really great condition for $12, a milk glass base alladin lamp with a Type B urner and globe for $40, a large cedar chest for $40, a large 5 foot steel pry bar for $10 dollard, and a leg vise in exceptional condiiton for $65 ( which was a decent price).

Brand new food saver with 8 rolls of bags for $20.

Picked up a hand meat-grinder with four different sized plates for 5$. Got a metal stuffing horn that fit it for another 50 cents.

Nothing as we've stop attending. Reason being we were fast approaching the hoarder stage of prepping & cash flow has been diverted.

When we did go on a regular basis we use to bring a 1900 Sear Roebuck catalog with us along with a few reference books on antique tools. More than once we were cut a deal simply because we knew what the item was, how it is used, & were believable in that we would use it.

Good luck everyone it is an addictive pleasure.


~~ pelenaka ~~

I need to go back some but I have purchased many items at the local Yard Sales and local Flea Markets: 2 Coleman propane and white gas lanterns; several kero lanterns; carbon steel knives; sockets and Vise Grip Pliers; cast iron fry pans and Dutch Ovens. There are many good buys out there if you look and know your particular products value.

Most times the seller will barter and accept less than originally asked. Shop when you don't need "now" but when you can buy at a price that is what you can spend for the items now.

My total: cast iron pots & pans; Dutch Ovens and fry pans is about 12 and the kero lamps is about 20? (haven't taken an audit lately) I have never paid more than $5.00 for any Cast Iron piece. I never paid more than $4.00 for a kereo lamp.

Friday is my favorite shopping day: Families leaving and selling; families selling off Mom and Dad"s household goods. They want out and will take a fair offer.

Flea markets today are not like they were 30+ years ago. I used to love them. Today, people sell off junk stuff from china like swords and statues. I miss the old fashion flea markets.

I got two stainless Steel bowels, like the ones my parents have had, and still use, for the last 40 years. Good investment.

There are still some good buys out there. You need to look and know the value. Just because an item is low priced doesn't mean you should buy it if "you don't need it".

My mind has a list of items I need, not junk I don't need. "An educated buyer wiil find good buys". I agree the markets are not as good as they were before the internet.

Man!
 

Some of you all are making great finds, best I got this last time was two cases of pint jars for 2$ a piece..:goodjob:

I can't help it, I buy these every time I can find some. I figure at some point I can barter or trade them for stuff.

When the Europeans first made contact with the indigenous populations in the Americas, it was not their guns that were coveted but their metal pots...

Stainless
 

Finally got a stove top percolator in stainless steel(3$), tried to pick up one last year and it was priced at 15$, some times patience pays off.:D

Just this weekend I found an old wooden spice rack from the 70's with all the jars for $2 and three 70's corelle mixing bowls. My mom had some and man they were dropped, banged, and knocked around for years and never even had a chip. I paid $2 for the set of three. also got an old flour sifter for 50 cents.

This weekend, at a garage sale-got a Squeezo Deluxe,for $15. Looked it up,for new-$259.00. Got an antique apple peeler and a copper still-but those were not cheep,but are prep items.

I got my treadle sewing machine..looks good but I need to clean and oil the works..at least it isn't "locked up"....70.00

iron work is all unbroken but the cabinet needs re-finished..someone started to and just partial scraped(and gouged) the top......

Coleman white gas stove in VERY good condition (looks like used just a handful of times) $10. New case of 12 oz jelly jars with new rings/lids $2. So sad that garage sale season is nearly over!

I went out yard sale-ing today. I was able to buy a box of 4 120 hour emergency candles for $4. Thought that was a pretty good deal.

I saw 54 hr emergency candles in a candle shop for $4 a piece, I'd say you done very well.

My best luck is at the junkyard. I recently bought a bucket of automotive tools for 20 bucks containing;
-Proto slide hammer for pulling axles
-Battery test meter with a 90 amp ammeter
-3 jaw gear puller
-Blackhawk 2 jar gear puller
-Wye puller (either 2 or 3 bolts)
-Proto body filler file (this one will adjust to curves, and had a spare file for it)
-3 forged C clamps
-2 body dollies (for straightening dents in cars, etc.)
-5 hacksaw blades
-Set of Allen wrenches
-Rethreading dies, coarse and fine, 3/4" to 1 1/4"
-Starter "bump switch", for jogging the starter when you need to crank the engine from under the hood.
-Ring compressor, Blackhawk,
-AAmco ridge reamer

AND, about 8 or 9 blacksmith tools, that fit in the (square) hardy hole of an anvil.

He threw in the 5 gallon bucket on the deal, too. I figure that the new cost of these things is in the range of $600 to $700.

On another trip to the same junkyard, I bought a sorghum mill for $130. He had no idea what the heck it was--had to tell him. I was offered $200 for it by an antique dealer before I got out of the junkyard! One sold lately on Ebay (mounted on a homemade trailer and set up to power with a tractor PTO) for $1,350.

Goodwill stores have been good to us, too. Most of our clothing comes from there, and LOTS of books for entertainment reading and some reference works--paperbacks are a buck (on sale this week, 3 for 99 cents), and most hardbacks are 2 bucks. Then, we take them to a used bookstore and swap out what we have for some we haven't read yet. Goodwill also had 12 volt fans for 2 bucks each--got 6 last year. They provided me with enough lamps and light fixtures to light our whole house for 2 bucks each. Those are now converted to use 12 volt CFL bulbs, and have cigarette lighter plugs on them for use with our solar system. AM/FM/SW radio, $1.50, and a 12 volt to 3 volt converter for it, $1. We'll use this on the 12 volt house system, too. New speakers for the computer, $4. Coffee mugs, 50 cents. Canning jars, $4/dozen (kinda high, but they were clean). New Alladin quart insulated mug, $1.

Tomorrow, we are off to Elnora, IN, for their annual antique show and 5 acre flea market that fills the county farigrounds. I bought a lard rendering kettle there last year cheap. LINK: http://wrvaa.org/

Ok here is my list of goodies, 90 canning jars for 40 bucks off craigslist, a power inverter for 50.00 craigslist, flea market brand new vacuum sealer 20.oo, 150 gallon water jug...FREE yeppers, tons of metal garden fence from a farmer,along with metal feed storage barrells of 2 sizes 25 gallon and 55 gallon, wood posts metal fence posts,tons of treated wood, all for one hundred dollars. We are getting a free chicken and a rooster from our neighbor (the cost is just being kind to one another and some praise to God) a soy milk machine 9 can not have cows or goatsbut it is back up milk) 45 on e-bay. Bought a wood stove last year on clearence on line tih free site to store for 300 now going for 1300.oo and an extra fridge which I am storing dried milk and flour in for free ( we hauled it off) a cb radio new in box for 20.00 (need to buy antenna still) and some lamp oil on clearence a year ago at wal mart i got 11 jugs for 20.00. they are some of my treasures....can not tell me God is not good...