Road Hunting

Jump into the car with your gear and head for a country road. Your friend drives while you keep your eyes focused on the ditch at either side. Looking for that elusive gamebird. It took a trained eye to find him hiding in the winter bleached grass.
Same principle applies to vintage treasure hunting. The gear is slightly different. Newspaper classifieds from the Garage Sale section. Estate sale listings from Estatesales.net for your city. Something to carry your treasures home in. Watching for the signs on the side of the road that advertise a yard sale takes a trained eye - one that can see which direction the arrow on the sign is pointing so you can get in the right lane and make that quick turn.
I bagged this treasure last week during a hunt:

A beautiful vintage SANDOR brooch and earrings set!

Day two of an estate sale, and I could hardly believe that this enameled Sandor set was still available! I added it to my eBay store http://stores.ebay.com/Caryd-Away-Treasures  today at $19.99. I thought it would add a charming vintage touch to something summery!

This time my road hunting skills landed a treasure! But that's not always the case; sometimes, my husband told me, the bird would fly away before getting caught. That's how it feels when I pull up to a sale and someone is walking away with just the thing I was hunting for! The bird that got away!