A quick look at Rinely’s amazing event

Posted by Dispatch staff on July 30, 2012 in Any questions?, Great Buys

Another yard sale weekend in the books, and this one was pretty much dominated by the Rinely community yard sale.

This vintage accordion was selling for more than $100 at the Rinely yard sale. It was on just one of the hundreds of tables of merchandise at the big event in southern York County.

We hit the streets early on Saturday, and we were a surprised by two things.

1. First, it was horribly humid. If you were outside for more than a few minutes, even early in the day, you were covered in sweat. The amazing thing was that during our “yard sale time” the temperatures never went above 82 degrees. But the humidity just made it horrible.
2. One faction of the Yard Sale Secrets team had never visited the community yard sale in the Rinely area of Stewartstown. The place was absolutely swamped. We were absolutely shocked at how busy it was and by the sheer number of sellers. The organizers really amazed us — they had strict rules for parking, food vendors and pulled together an amazing event. If you’ve never been to the Rinely sale, then you have honestly missed one of York’s greatest yard sale events.

The hardest part of the day was actually finding Rinely itself, by the way.

Rinley’s community yard sale had cars lined along the road on both sides for about a mile. Side streets were also loaded with with shopper’s cars. The event had plenty of people selling too.

WHAT WE BOUGHT

Despite venturing down to Rinely and being amazed by it, we didn’t actually buy all that much. Here’s what we picked up.

This is a close up of a lace table cloth we bought. You can often find lace products at yard sales. This piece, which was probably 3 feet in diameter, was only 50 cents. It is also far whiter than it appears in this picture!

Spring is gone, but we couldn’t resist this cute, buttoned flag.

At the left, is an unopened packet of construction paper that cost about 60 percent less than what you’d pay in a store. At right, an unopened table cloth.

A kid-sized shirt was ours for 50 cents. A new hair ribbon was just a few dollars (… and have we mentioned how often we find cute things like this at yard sales. You can credit York County’s vibrant crafting community!) Lastly, some new Mary Kay makeup was ours for a 26 percent discount.

HOW DID YOU DO?

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You don’t see this too often when you hit yard sales: A yard sale at the edge of cemetery. Another example of how big the Rinely sale is — they were putting vendors where ever they could fit them.