re: It’s Garage Sale Season Finally!!! Here’s what I bought today and yesterday

Thanks… I figured it would be the junk ones.

That Klein bag is cool!

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nice! Whats your method for determining if something is potentially of significant value when finding it in a random sale?

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That’s the fun of my hobby. When I started this hobby 20+ years ago, there were no smart phones. I had to chance it and over time, just learned what or what not to buy. Since smart phones, I could simply just look any and everything up, like a lot of the guys do on YouTube.
Take for instance the wooden cats in the OP. I bought them blindly, but I could tell by the quality they maybe worth something.
The Klein bag was no brainer buy. As a former electrician, I know the value in Klein and Fluke tools. I buy them anytime I see them if the price is right.

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Do you see any O gauge Lionel stuff in your searches?

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Rarely, because most train collectors know what they have and are not going to sell them in a garage sale. That being said, I have found some Lionel from the 50’s-80’s, mostly cars, not engines.

Once I did drop $500 at an estate sale, on a huge lot of pre-war Lionel. I flipped it for a couple thousand dollars. That is when I learned what Marklin was. There was a couple old cast iron light poles that were bigger than O scale, marked Marklin. I listed them by themselves, they went for $500+. I had no idea.

Update to this thread.

So far I’ve sold the following

D&D books - $140 (in person)
Dewalt tools - $60 (in person)
VCR - $50


Cats - $70


Yeti - $80


Klein bag - $21


Plus, I stopped at one yesterday (new company in BR has their estate sales mon-thur.

Paid $50 for a Sonos One, sold for $110


So I spent $280, and am now have sold $531 (before eBay fees).

I still have a few things left, guitar and FR jeans are the big ones. Should sell for about $250.