My morning started with coffee and scrolling Facebook Marketplace. A cabinet I had saved popped up in my feed—and it was marked free! Come spend the day with me as I pick up a free cabinet from Facebook Marketplace and shop a few Saturday estate sales!
Free On FB Marketplace
When I saw the cabinet listed as free, I immediately messaged the owner to confirm. I couldn’t believe it was actually free! She responded quickly and explained they were moving, and the realtor had said it needed to be out that day.
I had originally planned to spend the day hitting a couple of estate sales, but I quickly rearranged my schedule to go pick up the cabinet. It was heavy, and I had to bring my own muscle. My husband and daughter weren’t available to help, and my son was still asleep. I knew he had a full day of mowing lawns ahead of him and wouldn’t be thrilled to help me move furniture. So, I planned for a 10 a.m. pickup—thinking that would let him sleep in a little and still have time to mow afterward.
Wrong! He got up shortly after I’d arranged everything and told me he had to be somewhere at 9 a.m. to pull weeds. Luckily, we shuffled things around and he was only delayed about 30 minutes—and Momma got a free cabinet!
The house was beautiful, and because I’m on Zillow almost as much as I’m on Marketplace, I saw the listing pop up. You can check out the house HERE.
Estate Sale Shopping
Pat Jones Tag Sales was having a sale in a beautiful neighborhood by the Salisbury House. Checkout THIS POST to see Salisbury House. There wasn’t anything I really wanted at this sale, I just knew I wanted to see the house!
I ended up buying some electric hedge trimmers for $3 for my son. I guess you could call it payment for helping me load the cabinet earlier that morning. Watch the video below to see the house!
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Sales by Nan was the next estate sale I was headed to. This sale was in Windsor Heights, another neighborhood that I knew had beautiful old homes. Again, there wasn’t anything in particular I was wanting at this sale, but I did want to see the house! I was also curious to see what prices were like on day 3 of the sale! Watch the video above to see!
Successful Saturday
After hitting up the estate sales, I did stop at one garage sale and one thrift store before the day was over! All in all it was a lovely day! Especially because it started so well with the free FB Marketplace cabinet!! You can find all the treasures that I picked up on the website HERE.
If you are in the Des Moines area and looking for estate sale companies, I have a list HERE. If I am missing a company, please leave a comment and I will get them added! This post also gives you tips for shopping estate sales! Get the tips HERE.
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