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  1. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    If I were 25 years younger or at least a lot healthier I'd have been all over this one. Total digger sale, four floors' worth in a 19th century house. Apparently the basement scared even the estate sale company. The description said to make piles. (LOL)

    https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Simsbury/06070/3274590
     
    evelyb30, Jun 4, 2022
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  2. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Wow ! That looks like a house where the same family lived in 150 years and never threw away anything ! I bet theres some real finds in there. Reminds me of when I was volunteering for Meals On Wheels.There was a darling little old lady who had a huge house but only lived in like 3 rooms. Every other room was piled with hers and her mothers things,lots and lots of them. Shes the one I got the Tiffany clock set from when I helped her clean up a collapsed mantle (rain leaked in) . I went and visited her several times.She was a fascinating lady with albums full of pics to show for a life well lived. My faves were during the 20s,she was a flapper for days !
     
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  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Bet she was a hoot. I also bet she still had the clothes, buried somewhere!
     
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  4. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    What a name! Hunt and Peck Estate Sales! :hilarious:
     
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  5. Ghopper1924

    Ghopper1924 Well-Known Member

    Love the house. Looks fascinating!
     
    Ghopper1924, Jun 4, 2022
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  6. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    BUT, my days I think are long gone I'd be willing to crawl through that mess!!!! From what I clicked through, I didn't see a LOT I personally was too interested in, or would have been..........HOUSE from the outside looked very cool though!!!
     
    Aquitaine, Jun 4, 2022
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  7. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    I am with Aqui, maybe years ago I would have tried that house. but not anymore. I am too vintage now.
     
    pearlsnblume, Jun 5, 2022
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  8. Northern Lights Lodge

    Northern Lights Lodge Well-Known Member

    Dang! I'd have loved to go through this one!!!
    Thanks for listing!
    Leslie
     
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  9. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I think a lot of former diggers are now antiques themselves. That said this was probably still a packed house sale, and a gent who has to be close to 90 still hits some of the estate sales I go to.
     
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  10. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Good Lord-the ancient cellars and attics of New England ! You can see where Hawthorne and Lovecraft got the inspiration for their tales.Nothing like it on the West Coast.
     
    bosko69, Jun 12, 2022
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  11. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Heck, y'all don't have basements as often as not.
     
    evelyb30, Jun 12, 2022
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  12. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    True indeed-the only subterranean realms we explore are in our minds.
     
    bosko69, Jun 13, 2022
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