Woo-hoo, yard salers, this is a great weekend to be out and about.

Not only fabulous weather, but some great sales, to boot! We’ve been to yard sales all over York for years, and some of our favorites are this weekend.

So let’s get to it:

FAVORITES FROM YEARS PAST

• Ashcombe Farms Dover Community Yard Sale is 9-2 Friday and Saturday. This one is always a good one. Go behind the Giant, near the corner of Palomino and Fox Run roads.
• Aslan Heights is another goodie. It’s Saturday from 8- 2, off  Greenbriar and Church roads in West Manchester Township.
• Little Creek Farms community yard sale is Friday and Saturday from 8-3, off Bull Road.

OTHER GOOD ONES

• The Spring Forge Neighborhood Yard Sale is Saturday only, from 8- 4. It’s boasting 30+ homes and selling a bunk bed, washer and dryer and assorted other items. This one’s off Route 116 in Spring Grove, behind Glatfelter Library.
• Haines Acres on the East End is having a multi-family sale at 2975 Forrest Lane. It’s Friday and Saturday 9-5.
• While you’re in Haines Acres, check out the huge family yard sale at 2458 Crystal Lane Friday and Saturday from 9 to 1. This one has a Teddy Ruxpin for sale. Remember Teddy Ruxpin?
• Chestnut Valley Community Yard Sale is Friday through  Sunday at 405 Pebble Beach Drive in Mount Wolf. (off Church Road)

MOST INTRIGUING

• A six-house yard sale at 4300 Bull Road today through Saturday is selling a 1975 Maverick and 1974 MG Midget.  And it’s also got a Wurlitzer and hundreds of records. You don’t run across that stuff every day.

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

• Stop by The York Dispatch yard sale Saturday, in our parking lot at 205 N. George St., for some great finds. And some great people.  It’s 9-2.

As always, check out the full yard sale listings in The York Dispatch classifieds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s not often that you see the Yard Sale Secrets blog doing much self-promotion. All of the regular contributors to this little institution have had at least one yard sale since the debut of this blog. We mentioned those sales, yes, but only in passing.

That changes today though.

The Yard Sale Secrets team is proud to announce that we’ve assembled a group yard sale right here at our workplace, The York Dispatch at 205 N. George St. in York City.

The yard sale will feature six to eight sellers and run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. Be sure to check out our ad in Thursday and Friday’s classified pages.

Since our tips are written by multiple people, don’t expect everyone to follow every list of tips we’ve put together. That being said, some of the non-contributing York Dispatch staff members have told us they’ve been researching our “Tips for Sellers” posts, so they might follow the rules better than we do.

This employee yard sale is the first for The York Dispatch, so we weren’t sure exactly how big we needed to make it or how much promotion we should do. It could be a total flop or it could be huge. We just aren’t sure Some of the early discussions included ideas of Bounce Houses, free web access, hot dogs on the grill, tours of the building and so on. All those ideas were put on hold though. We just want to test the waters first. If we do well this year, we might just go for broke next time.

You can plan your whole day around our sale and a visit to York’s downtown. The York YMCA is hosting a Bike in York event at Sovereign Bank Stadium, Central Market will be open, and you can check out the city’s museums and other retail operations while you’re visiting.

 

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Another weekend where York County was absolutely blessed with wonderful yard sale weather.

One division of the Yard Sale Secrets crew  stuck to the yard sales of Mount Wolf since they simply had to walk out the front door and they were in yard sale heaven.

Another team member reports some great deals on antiques during her trip to and from the Old East York neighborhood community sale.

Here are our buys for the weekend.

 

WHAT DID YOU GET?

Tell us about your great deals from the weekend and we’ll feature them in our next post. If you hosted a sale, tell us how it went!

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Wow, it looks like the weather is going to be great for yard sales this weekend.

Here’s our best bets from The York Dispatch classifieds:

• Mount Wolf Borough community yard sale will be held on Friday and Saturday starting at 8 a.m. both days. Featuring 30-plus homes from Main Street through 8th Street. This one usually involves a lot of walking or jumping in and out of the car. But, ooh boy, nice stuff.
• The old East York neighborhood will host their annual yard sale on Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. Did you know the old East York neighborhood is listed on the national registry of historic places? It’s located in East York north of Market St. south of Rt. 30 and stretches from N. Hills Road to Memory Lane.
• In the Red Lion area there’s a yard sale at 1470 Burkholder Rd. The sale will be held today, Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. They list lots of items for sale including perennials, kitchen items, garden tools, toys, books and clothing.
• A yard sale at 1250 Greenwood Road in Dover will be held on Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. both days. This yard sale features antiques, enamelware, tinware, peanut jars, power tools, crafts and household items. Sounds like a really good one for the avid antique collector!

YOU’RE SELLING WHAT?

• A yard sale at 320 N. Hawthorne St., is putting a mannequin out.
• A Dover yard sale at 4681 S. Salem Church Road offers Avon merchandise from the 1980s. We’re assuming you’re not talking about old makeup and perfume.

WEATHER FORECAST

A lovely weekend is on tap with mostly sunny skies on Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the low 70′s on Friday and high 70′s on Saturday.

 

 

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At the store the other day, we spotted “100 Ideas: Flea Market Style,” a Better Homes & Gardens special on the newsstand.
The 96-page magazine offers some great ideas on what to do with all those odd trinkets you bring home from yard sales and flea markets. Some of the ideas are simply brilliant.

• No. 19: Turning an old furniture caster into a bookend.
• No. 49: Take an old sled and use it as the kitchen hanger your pots and pans.
• No. 77: Mounting old wire bed frames from your porch. Add a mattress and a cover and you’ve got the ultimate relaxation device.

Have you done anything like this? If so, send us a picture!
And we can’t gush enough about “100 Ideas,” it’s simply packed full of inspiration and sure to make you look again at that pile of junk your neighbor is selling.

WHAT YOU FOUND

We got a comment from Deborah D. about her finds last week:
“Boy, did I do good. Found a large dark wood longaberger canister basket with insider canister,l id and the woodcraft lid $10.00. I also found 2 pairs of Silpada earrings for $1.00 a piece, 2 Pampered Chef mixing bowls with the lids for $3.00 for the pair. A genuine Coach large hobo bag for $10.00 great condition and some very pretty vintage costume jewelry. Everyone doesn’t call me the yardsale queen for nothing.”

Congrats on the great finds. It’s warms our souls to know we have actual royalty reading our little blog!

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