July 8, 2025 • 27 mins
In this episode of 'Garage Sales Unhinged,' Julie recounts a trip to New England where she visited various thrift and antique stores. She highlights unique finds, like Civil War-era portraits and local high school t-shirts, and discusses the benefits of shopping at thrift stores for unique, locally flavored souvenirs.
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Welcome to garage sales Unhinged.
Where the characters are as quirky as the vines.
I'm Julie. And I'm Jake.
Join us as we dive into the wildworld of garage sales, yard
sales, estate sales, and anywhere secondhand sales are
happening from. Bizarre bargains to hilarious
haggles. You won't believe the stories
we've got lined up. Let's get unhinged.
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Welcome everyone to another episode of of Garage Sales
Unhinged. I'm Julie and your Co host over
there is Jake. Say hi, Jake.
Oh hi there. How you doing?
I'm good you brought in a littlebit of a Midwestern accent to
that one. Who?
Me. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
How you doing? How you doing?
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How? You doing?
So. I got to, I got to tell you like
I can see you on the screen. Listeners can't unless they're
mutants. But you are not recording where
you usually record. Usually you're in your office
and it's, you know, decorated very, you know, intentionally
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and really cool and everything. That's not where you are right
now. No, this, this is this is my
office when things go bad. So I'm, we're currently
renovating our house and my, my office is currently under
renovation. So all the furniture's moved
out, the rugs moved out, everything's off the walls.
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So if I were to sit in there, itgives me a very echoey sound.
And so for kids that are listening and you want to start
your own podcast, the best placeto record where I'm recording
right now is your closet. So I'm, I'm, I'm actually in the
space where whenever I worked for in a corporate job and I
would do voice over projects, I'd come into my closet and
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record everything because this has the best acoustics in the
house, so. Yeah, you'd be surprised how
many marketing videos are are produced in front of somebody's,
you know, unpressed khakis. Yeah, I think our brother Earl,
just for the one time he was doing a a voice over thing and
the only place he could get to that had semi decent acoustics
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was his car. So he would just like sit out in
the parking lot and record into.His I yeah, I remember him
saying one time he went out there and he he did that in the
car and he had to drape a towel over his head.
Yeah. That's not creepy at.
All. He's making it work well, you're
so, but the renovation is everything OK?
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I think you've mentioned the renovation the last few times.
Is it turning into the money pit?
No, no, no, it's not turn into that.
It's just, you know, materials take some time to get here and
summer break and you know, our contractor has kids and the kids
are out of school and they're going on family vacations.
And so it's it's happening. It's fine.
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It's all. Fine, well, I'm enjoying looking
at, you know, and judging all ofthe the clothes hanging behind
you. Appreciate that.
I really do. So you started off this show
with doing a little bit of a Midwestern thing.
I got to tell a funny story, oneof my friends, he.
So are you familiar with the actor Lou Diamond Phillips?
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Oh. Yeah, Young Guns and La Bamba,
yeah, stuff like that, yeah. So Lou Diamond Phillips is
actually from the DFW Metroplex.I think he is from Arlington.
And anyway, my friend was out one night and her and a group of
friends, they were all kind of joking around and stuff.
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And she started doing a Midwestern accent of, oh, don't
you know, like, oh, it's just sogreat you're here.
And oh, it's just so nice and like, all this stuff.
Well, they've had a couple of drinks, and then Lou Diamond
Phillips walked into the establishment.
And like that he was meeting different people and she like,
introduced herself and she couldn't get out of this
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Midwestern character. She's like, I'm sure he's like,
man, this girl is real Midwestern.
But she was like, I was so nervous that I couldn't get out
of, oh, honey, what are you doing here?
This is great. So nice to see ya.
That's great. So I guess the rest of the night
she had, she couldn't drop it. He's like, you'll think I'm a
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liar. Yeah, that was exactly it.
Like I can't lie to Lou Diamond Phillips.
Yeah, so it was awesome. I, I used to like think of like
first day of work or first day of school in a given year, like
try an accent because these people don't know you.
But it my second thought was oh but I'll probably see these
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people again and I won't remember which accent I used on
what person. I went to a summer camp and when
it was just for a week and one of the guys there wanted to do a
British accent. And so like whenever he met
everyone that first day, he did a British accent.
But like we could all tell he wasn't British, but he kept
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doing it. And I was like, cool.
And he was, he was such a nerdy but like very nice nerdy guy and
fantastic dancer but horrible ataccents.
Sorry but like how do you tell someone is not British?
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There, there was just something about him that I'm like.
Well, it's OK, you say his skin tone, you know that it.
Wasn't bad. It was, I couldn't, I can't
really pinpoint, but like he also, he would be in
conversation with like our groupand then go and tell somebody
else something that didn't have the accent and it came out like
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a lot easier. So but yeah, he tried.
It failed miserably, but it was still a fun week.
And I danced with him. He was a good dancer.
I think I interviewed one job and I tried an accent and I got
the job and I just dropped it after that because I was like
too late, you know? And I think I tried something
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that I thought was British and it's probably horrible and not
not even close. But I figured it it might help.
And I I'm who knows, maybe it did.
I was drinking the literal cup of tea during the video
interview and they were. I really wanted you to have the
interview of Like the Swedish Chef from The Muppets.
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Yeah, yeah. And you got the job.
Amazing. That's funny.
How comfortable are you with a hand up your butt?
Yeah, like that was the interview question.
You know, thinking of like all the EEO things that you're, you
know, you can and can't ask in an interview.
(06:55):
I. Guess you can't ask, maybe.
I don't think. Because of woke.
Well, I don't think a hand up the butt is something that you
can't ask in an interview as long as it's pertaining to the
job. Well, that's as a Muppet, that's
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Well, Jake, are you curious about what we're talking about
today? Not really, but let's have it.
I I am really dying to know. So several weeks ago I had to go
to Portland, ME for work and ended up renting a car after my
meetings were over and drove over to New Hampshire to have
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lunch with one of my friends that lives in New Hampshire.
But along the way, I stopped at some cool places, thrift stores,
antique stores, along the way between Portland, ME and this
place in New Hampshire that I went to.
And I was shooketh about, you know, some of the things that
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they sell in New England. Because like, honestly, like,
OK, Jake and I are from Texas. We live in Texas and we have old
things here. I think the oldest thing that we
have in the state of Texas is the Alamo because we must
remember it. New England is a little bit
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older than Texas as it relates to United States history.
And for people that would like alittle bit of a history
geography lesson, before Texas was Texas, we were Mexico.
So anyone that came over to quote UN quote, Texas, they were
emigrating into Mexico. And so while we still have a lot
of really cool culture and things going on in Texas, I was
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shocked whenever I went to the antique store and saw that you
could buy one of the, it's like the the 10 portraits of someone
from the Civil War era, and theywere selling it for 20 bucks.
Now, I don't know who the personwas in the picture.
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I also know that this type of technology is not being used as
much anymore, but I'm like it's from the Civil War and it's only
$20.00. So I was very like is this
legal? Can they do?
Shouldn't this be in a museum type thing?
And I was. Talking to Indiana Jones moment,
I hope you punched them and thenjumped on a passing Jeep.
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I did. Oh my gosh, you saw it.
So it was one of those things oflooking through OK, so the place
that I went to, I have my littlepamphlet that they gave me of
the Cornish area in Maine and I'm.
Sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't realize there was a
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Cornish area in that part of thecountry or in any part of this
country and also the Cornish area Sounds like the the day in
training I skipped as a proctologist, but go on.
You did skip it, but they this area of Maine has tons of
antique stores and thrift storesand stuff like that.
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So I didn't have tons of time before I had to get to my plane.
But I stopped by, talked to the lady that was running the
antique store that I went to her, her and her brother
actually run the store. It's in the old Guild hall of
this town. So this building was built in, I
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think she said it was like early1900s, like maybe 19 O 8 and and
it was melt meant as a CommunityCenter.
And so there's a lot of open floor space.
I will there's a second floor. There's probably a basement that
I didn't go into a basement thatwould have been really creepy.
But the second floor, it's a bigopen room.
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There weren't like bedrooms and stuff up there.
And then there is a third floor enclosed attic that they use for
storage. But just walking around and
seeing the amount of the amount of antiques in an antique store,
that's not what I mean. It's how old they were compared
to the antiques that I come across in the southern states of
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like, Oh, well, this stuff is actually old.
But I asked her, I said, so where do you curate all your
stuff from? And she said, oh, you know her,
her brother has an eye for thosetypes of things.
So a lot of estate sales in the area.
Also people whenever they realize, once they know that you
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run an antique store, they tend to call you and say, hey, I have
this thing, would you like to buy it for me?
And then they resell it. So a lot of her brother stuff
that he has collected over time is in that antiques hall.
And again, it was it's a very quaint town.
So you think of small town America.
And as I'm going down the road, like I did a Dukes of Hazzard
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like Tokyo Drift trying to get into this dirt parking lot, I'm
going antiques. I got to go look.
But yeah, it was it was really cool to see some of the stuff
that they have up there. And then I was telling her I was
like, you know, I'm from Texas. We don't have this old of stuff.
And she looked at me. She said, honey, everything up
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here is old. I said, OK, thank you.
So that really nice town, very cute place to to go and visit.
The Cornish area has tons of of places, small town USA to go in
and look for those types of things.
So if ever if anyone's ever likewanting to go on a antiquing
adventure and make it like a an actual vacation trip out of it,
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going up to Maine is ideal because the weather up there was
fantastic. Well, that's cool.
I think it is, It is kind of interesting.
Like if you go to Europe, you know, you, you see the history
over there and you go, Oh yeah, we, we haven't been at this very
long over in the States. That's right.
So my husband and I, we did our honeymoon in Italy and we had a,
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a tour of the Vatican. And our tour guide there was a
archaeologist. I think he's an archaeologist.
And he said he's been to Americaonce.
And he went to our, he went to Philadelphia and got to see like
the Liberty Bell and where like the First Capital of the United
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States was and our seat of government.
And he's like, OK, your old is our new.
And we were going around the Espiazza, and in the middle of
it is a huge, beautiful building.
And he's like, that's our new government building.
It was built in 1842. And I was like, yeah, I get it.
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We're we we still a young country over in America?
It is going to bring up the question, would you rather have
nothing but old stuff or or no old stuff?
I mean, I like a happen medium because like, I don't want an
old swimsuit. I don't want old underwear,
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modern things. I like the the one piece thing
you don't like wearing the the rubber hat thing that the ladies
used to wear. No, I really like.
AC so like, yeah, especially now, especially this time of
year, yeah. Yeah.
So, but then there's also some things that I'm like, oh, I like
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the older style of that, the good quality of it.
And I look at older houses, I'm like, oh, those are beautiful.
But then I start thinking about the maintenance, upkeep.
And then also I'm like, does it actually have central AC or do
you have to get a window unit? And yeah.
I'm in a 50s home and had to putin new Windows and that was a
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pretty penny, you know? But the house has been standing
since then and it's in fantasticshape.
Whereas like if it's been in fantastic shape since it was
built, it didn't need any work houses built recently, you know,
maybe 20-30 years. And those things have some
serious issues because of the way they're built.
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So it's, you know, there's a giving a take, I guess.
Yeah, Yeah. Well, and another place I went
up there in New in New England, it was a thrift store tied to
like a senior Community Center. So the thrift store was actually
a revenue generator for the Senior Center.
So the money that they were raising there went to senior
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program senior meals for the people in the area that that go
to the Senior Center. And I did buy, I bought a
necklace there. It was a costume jewelry that I
really liked. It was really pretty like I must
say, like jade green, like pearls almost type thing.
Bought it for $3 and I felt likethat was a steal and a bargain.
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Also, it made me realize a lot of thrift stores are super clean
and organized and the clothing, the things that they have there
are actually really high qualitybecause while they do accept
donations, they have to turn around and sell it to, you know,
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help out A5O1C3, whatever it maybe.
And the ladies that were workingat this store, 1 super
organized, 2 very clean and three, there was a lot of people
working there that day. But yeah, it was it was really
nice. I think it was there.
I was there the Saturday before Father's Day.
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So they had a Father's Day sale going on, and the Father's Day
sale was something like, if you like in the men's rack, if he
bought something there, it was like a 2 for one.
And so like you essentially comein and buy the men's clothes so
that they could replenish it with other stuff.
But yeah, it was cool. It was, it was really nice to
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walk around to see a lot of their stuff.
Honestly, the women's clothing up there was Primo super nice.
And then Jake Jacob, you know, Itravel a lot and I like getting
souvenir shirts of the places I've been to.
OK, souvenir shirts RIP off. RIP off.
Like you're going to go to a souvenir shop, you're going to
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spend 1520 bucks on a shirt that's not good quality.
Everyone else has it like, you know, but hey, it's a souvenir
shirt. What?
You know you're not going to wear it.
Garments that you see along the the tourist places, yeah, you're
going to get what you're going to get.
Except when you go to a thrift store.
Local thrift store because you know what they were selling.
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No. Awesome graphic Tees of local
events. So people donate it like their
5K, their marathon shirts, theirhigh school T-shirts.
And I was going, you know what? That's a much cooler, like,
local T-shirt vibe than like, going to your souvenir shop and
getting something very, you know, generic.
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But I was like, yeah, I want to show people I ran a marathon in
this small town. You have a marathon, but the
design was really cool and and also it was like the shirt was
still in really good condition. So that's a that's a tidbit for
anyone that's traveling and you want to bring back a souvenir
shirt or souvenir stuff, go to the local thrift store as they
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have things that are very uniqueto the neighborhood because
local people donated. That would be way cool.
Like when you go to these placesthat are out of town, swing by
and see if you can find a shirt from their minor Baseball League
team because their their mascotsare always zany and weird and
very regional, you know? Well, like somebody had turned
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in. They had for sale like a high
school wrestling team shirt. I was like, oh, that's pretty
cool. Like, you know, someone's going
to ask me like, oh, did you go to that high school?
And like no, but I bought a shirt near there.
You could pretend you did, and you could do it while faking an
accent. There we go.
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Yes, I went to the high school in the Northeast and I was on
the wrestling team and I am a pirate.
But it yeah, just stopped at around at a couple places,
talked to several people there. Like I said, most thrift stores
are doing it to support A5O1C3. Nonprofit organization goes back
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to the community and again, really good stuff.
There's a difference between a thrift store and a consignment
store. Do you know what that is, Jake?
So consignment is I, I give you my stuff, you sell it and keep
some of the money. Whereas thrift store, I mean, I
don't think I can get, I can tryto sell you something.
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So thrift stores, usually someone has donated stuff to the
consignment store is I've taken a bunch of clothes and you, you
know, this, the shop either buysit from me and then they resell
it for a markup or it stays on their rack.
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And then once it sells, I get a portion of those proceeds.
But thrift stores are they do take donations.
They also go and pick up stuff at the state sales and things
like that. So people tend to curate items
in those situations. But I've come to find out that I
really like shopping at thrift stores and consignment stores
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and I love going to them, especially if I'm in a different
state of going like, oh, what isthis local community, you know,
what are they get rid of or whatdo they wear?
You know, all that stuff. So.
It's a different way of getting exposed to the local flavor, you
know, It's not just with food. It's like, hey, what?
What's the regional thing going on as far as stuff?
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And the antiques store I went into in this old Guild hall and
this, this whole building is probably, I'm going to say it's
probably 3800 square feet. Like it's a pretty big building
to have all these antiques in there in one corner on the 1st
floor, one corner in the back, which probably would have been
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like maybe the original bathroomor something like that mud room.
They had a bunch of old farm equipment like garden equipment,
like things that you know one, don't poke yourself because
you're going to need a tetanus shot 2 don't stab your brother
with it because they're going todie.
I'm going wow they're selling weapons here.
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This is awesome You're. Really good advice not to stab
your brother Julie. I mean advice, you don't have to
take it. You know, you and I've talked
about going to some of these stores and taking like the the
lead light so you can see like what glass is made of lead and
all that stuff. Man, if I had a LED light to
take in antique store, they had a lot of old bottles, a lot of
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old dolls. They had a whole collection of
salt and pepper shakers, like antique ones.
And I know people collect those,but like, and I tried to find
you some frog ones. They didn't have any frog ones,
but I, I know you were so looking forward to that.
But yeah, it was a cool experience.
And I encourage everyone, as people are going on summer
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vacations and stuff, go to go toyour local thrift stores, stop
into an antique store, marvel atwhat they got.
It's cool. I'm trying to figure out like
what what do you think is our regional, you know, thrift store
sign, like what is our local flavor?
Live, laugh, love. Oh God, yeah, probably.
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Oh no, just the sign. Blessed or eat?
Yeah, it is a bunch of affirmation signs, which is
great to find in second hand because that means somebody's
like, Nope, not true. Taking this back, you can have
it first. My son now says cursed, he's
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going to say something else. But yeah.
Yeah, I, you know, well, and I was talking to some friends
today about this of, you know, if you go to an antique store in
a large city like the DFW Metroplex one, their prices are
higher. And part of that's because their
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rent is higher, but also people will pay for that, right?
If you go to a thrift store outside of a busy metro area,
you can get some really good interesting deals because they
don't have a they don't have thefoot traffic like our Metroplex
people do. So being able to go into some of
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those thrift stores and and haggle with those shopkeepers,
like you can do that easier outside of a big city.
Yeah. And then you're going to get
stuff that more more likely camefrom a place that is older.
You know, if it's metro, people are coming and going all the
time, but go go a county over. Yeah, you know, go.
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This way or that way and it'll you'll be surprised.
Well, I do have a feeling like, I think a lot of times people
will take especially furniture from IKEA and like that's
probably what you're finding at the thrift stores around here,
something that has been made in bulk and then people want to
change their decor or whatever it may be and then nothing.
Wrong with that. I mean that that that counts
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too. And man, don't knock IKEA.
It's been pretty good lately, but.
Well, no, but that's the thing of like for people that may be
wanting to look for antiques, Yes, there are antiques who are
here in the Metroplex for sure, but also a lot of those store
owners, they travel outside of state to get the deals to bring
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to their store here and make a chunk of change on it.
Well, I guess, I guess what you were saying is, hey, if you
were, if you happen to be traveling, might as well make a
make it a point to stop by someplace and especially in an
area you've never been and make,you know, bring a bag just for
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the purposes of the stuff you might find there.
Yeah, do it, Do it. Yeah, what are you waiting for?
Go. Go on vacation.
Geez. Anyway, that's what I wanted to
bring this week and it was fun. Fun trying to find treasures and
someone else's backyard and makes me want to go do more of
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it. Well, thanks for bringing it to
us. Like you, you are a jet setter,
so the more more of the stuff you do, you need to like
document it. And I want to see the collection
of bizarre regional high school sports team shirts that you
collect. Actually, you know what you can
get at a lot of antique stores, which I, I can't do it because
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I, I'm a minimalist and I can't just have all this stuff in my
house. But you can usually find
someone's old yearbook like highschool and like to look at those
from the 20s and the 30s have gone.
Oh, that wouldn't pass anymore in this day and age.
No. Well.
I hope so. But yeah, it's always
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interesting to look at what people got.
So that's what I got for this week, Jake.
See you next time. Bye bye, bye, bye, bye.
Welcome to garage sales Unhinged.
Where the characters are as quirky as the vines.
I'm Julie. And I'm Jake.
Join us as we dive into the wildworld of garage sales, yard
sales, estate sales, and anywhere secondhand sales are
happening from. Bizarre bargains to hilarious
haggles. You won't believe the stories
we've got lined up. Let's get unhinged.
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Welcome everyone to another episode of of Garage Sales
Unhinged. I'm Julie and your Co host over
there is Jake. Say hi, Jake.
Oh hi there. How you doing?
I'm good you brought in a littlebit of a Midwestern accent to
that one. Who?
Me. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
How you doing? How you doing?
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How? You doing?
So. I got to, I got to tell you like
I can see you on the screen. Listeners can't unless they're
mutants. But you are not recording where
you usually record. Usually you're in your office
and it's, you know, decorated very, you know, intentionally
(01:07):
and really cool and everything. That's not where you are right
now. No, this, this is this is my
office when things go bad. So I'm, we're currently
renovating our house and my, my office is currently under
renovation. So all the furniture's moved
out, the rugs moved out, everything's off the walls.
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So if I were to sit in there, itgives me a very echoey sound.
And so for kids that are listening and you want to start
your own podcast, the best placeto record where I'm recording
right now is your closet. So I'm, I'm, I'm actually in the
space where whenever I worked for in a corporate job and I
would do voice over projects, I'd come into my closet and
(01:52):
record everything because this has the best acoustics in the
house, so. Yeah, you'd be surprised how
many marketing videos are are produced in front of somebody's,
you know, unpressed khakis. Yeah, I think our brother Earl,
just for the one time he was doing a a voice over thing and
the only place he could get to that had semi decent acoustics
(02:14):
was his car. So he would just like sit out in
the parking lot and record into.His I yeah, I remember him
saying one time he went out there and he he did that in the
car and he had to drape a towel over his head.
Yeah. That's not creepy at.
All. He's making it work well, you're
so, but the renovation is everything OK?
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I think you've mentioned the renovation the last few times.
Is it turning into the money pit?
No, no, no, it's not turn into that.
It's just, you know, materials take some time to get here and
summer break and you know, our contractor has kids and the kids
are out of school and they're going on family vacations.
And so it's it's happening. It's fine.
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It's all. Fine, well, I'm enjoying looking
at, you know, and judging all ofthe the clothes hanging behind
you. Appreciate that.
I really do. So you started off this show
with doing a little bit of a Midwestern thing.
I got to tell a funny story, oneof my friends, he.
So are you familiar with the actor Lou Diamond Phillips?
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Oh. Yeah, Young Guns and La Bamba,
yeah, stuff like that, yeah. So Lou Diamond Phillips is
actually from the DFW Metroplex.I think he is from Arlington.
And anyway, my friend was out one night and her and a group of
friends, they were all kind of joking around and stuff.
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And she started doing a Midwestern accent of, oh, don't
you know, like, oh, it's just sogreat you're here.
And oh, it's just so nice and like, all this stuff.
Well, they've had a couple of drinks, and then Lou Diamond
Phillips walked into the establishment.
And like that he was meeting different people and she like,
introduced herself and she couldn't get out of this
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Midwestern character. She's like, I'm sure he's like,
man, this girl is real Midwestern.
But she was like, I was so nervous that I couldn't get out
of, oh, honey, what are you doing here?
This is great. So nice to see ya.
That's great. So I guess the rest of the night
she had, she couldn't drop it. He's like, you'll think I'm a
(04:25):
liar. Yeah, that was exactly it.
Like I can't lie to Lou Diamond Phillips.
Yeah, so it was awesome. I, I used to like think of like
first day of work or first day of school in a given year, like
try an accent because these people don't know you.
But it my second thought was oh but I'll probably see these
(04:45):
people again and I won't remember which accent I used on
what person. I went to a summer camp and when
it was just for a week and one of the guys there wanted to do a
British accent. And so like whenever he met
everyone that first day, he did a British accent.
But like we could all tell he wasn't British, but he kept
(05:08):
doing it. And I was like, cool.
And he was, he was such a nerdy but like very nice nerdy guy and
fantastic dancer but horrible ataccents.
Sorry but like how do you tell someone is not British?
(05:30):
There, there was just something about him that I'm like.
Well, it's OK, you say his skin tone, you know that it.
Wasn't bad. It was, I couldn't, I can't
really pinpoint, but like he also, he would be in
conversation with like our groupand then go and tell somebody
else something that didn't have the accent and it came out like
(05:51):
a lot easier. So but yeah, he tried.
It failed miserably, but it was still a fun week.
And I danced with him. He was a good dancer.
I think I interviewed one job and I tried an accent and I got
the job and I just dropped it after that because I was like
too late, you know? And I think I tried something
(06:12):
that I thought was British and it's probably horrible and not
not even close. But I figured it it might help.
And I I'm who knows, maybe it did.
I was drinking the literal cup of tea during the video
interview and they were. I really wanted you to have the
interview of Like the Swedish Chef from The Muppets.
(06:34):
Yeah, yeah. And you got the job.
Amazing. That's funny.
How comfortable are you with a hand up your butt?
Yeah, like that was the interview question.
You know, thinking of like all the EEO things that you're, you
know, you can and can't ask in an interview.
(06:55):
I. Guess you can't ask, maybe.
I don't think. Because of woke.
Well, I don't think a hand up the butt is something that you
can't ask in an interview as long as it's pertaining to the
job. Well, that's as a Muppet, that's
kind of an important part of thejob.
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Well, Jake, are you curious about what we're talking about
today? Not really, but let's have it.
I I am really dying to know. So several weeks ago I had to go
to Portland, ME for work and ended up renting a car after my
meetings were over and drove over to New Hampshire to have
(08:03):
lunch with one of my friends that lives in New Hampshire.
But along the way, I stopped at some cool places, thrift stores,
antique stores, along the way between Portland, ME and this
place in New Hampshire that I went to.
And I was shooketh about, you know, some of the things that
(08:25):
they sell in New England. Because like, honestly, like,
OK, Jake and I are from Texas. We live in Texas and we have old
things here. I think the oldest thing that we
have in the state of Texas is the Alamo because we must
remember it. New England is a little bit
(08:46):
older than Texas as it relates to United States history.
And for people that would like alittle bit of a history
geography lesson, before Texas was Texas, we were Mexico.
So anyone that came over to quote UN quote, Texas, they were
emigrating into Mexico. And so while we still have a lot
of really cool culture and things going on in Texas, I was
(09:11):
shocked whenever I went to the antique store and saw that you
could buy one of the, it's like the the 10 portraits of someone
from the Civil War era, and theywere selling it for 20 bucks.
Now, I don't know who the personwas in the picture.
(09:32):
I also know that this type of technology is not being used as
much anymore, but I'm like it's from the Civil War and it's only
$20.00. So I was very like is this
legal? Can they do?
Shouldn't this be in a museum type thing?
And I was. Talking to Indiana Jones moment,
I hope you punched them and thenjumped on a passing Jeep.
(09:53):
I did. Oh my gosh, you saw it.
So it was one of those things oflooking through OK, so the place
that I went to, I have my littlepamphlet that they gave me of
the Cornish area in Maine and I'm.
Sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't realize there was a
(10:15):
Cornish area in that part of thecountry or in any part of this
country and also the Cornish area Sounds like the the day in
training I skipped as a proctologist, but go on.
You did skip it, but they this area of Maine has tons of
antique stores and thrift storesand stuff like that.
(10:38):
So I didn't have tons of time before I had to get to my plane.
But I stopped by, talked to the lady that was running the
antique store that I went to her, her and her brother
actually run the store. It's in the old Guild hall of
this town. So this building was built in, I
(11:02):
think she said it was like early1900s, like maybe 19 O 8 and and
it was melt meant as a CommunityCenter.
And so there's a lot of open floor space.
I will there's a second floor. There's probably a basement that
I didn't go into a basement thatwould have been really creepy.
But the second floor, it's a bigopen room.
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There weren't like bedrooms and stuff up there.
And then there is a third floor enclosed attic that they use for
storage. But just walking around and
seeing the amount of the amount of antiques in an antique store,
that's not what I mean. It's how old they were compared
to the antiques that I come across in the southern states of
(11:44):
like, Oh, well, this stuff is actually old.
But I asked her, I said, so where do you curate all your
stuff from? And she said, oh, you know her,
her brother has an eye for thosetypes of things.
So a lot of estate sales in the area.
Also people whenever they realize, once they know that you
(12:04):
run an antique store, they tend to call you and say, hey, I have
this thing, would you like to buy it for me?
And then they resell it. So a lot of her brother stuff
that he has collected over time is in that antiques hall.
And again, it was it's a very quaint town.
So you think of small town America.
And as I'm going down the road, like I did a Dukes of Hazzard
(12:26):
like Tokyo Drift trying to get into this dirt parking lot, I'm
going antiques. I got to go look.
But yeah, it was it was really cool to see some of the stuff
that they have up there. And then I was telling her I was
like, you know, I'm from Texas. We don't have this old of stuff.
And she looked at me. She said, honey, everything up
(12:46):
here is old. I said, OK, thank you.
So that really nice town, very cute place to to go and visit.
The Cornish area has tons of of places, small town USA to go in
and look for those types of things.
So if ever if anyone's ever likewanting to go on a antiquing
adventure and make it like a an actual vacation trip out of it,
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going up to Maine is ideal because the weather up there was
fantastic. Well, that's cool.
I think it is, It is kind of interesting.
Like if you go to Europe, you know, you, you see the history
over there and you go, Oh yeah, we, we haven't been at this very
long over in the States. That's right.
So my husband and I, we did our honeymoon in Italy and we had a,
(13:35):
a tour of the Vatican. And our tour guide there was a
archaeologist. I think he's an archaeologist.
And he said he's been to Americaonce.
And he went to our, he went to Philadelphia and got to see like
the Liberty Bell and where like the First Capital of the United
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States was and our seat of government.
And he's like, OK, your old is our new.
And we were going around the Espiazza, and in the middle of
it is a huge, beautiful building.
And he's like, that's our new government building.
It was built in 1842. And I was like, yeah, I get it.
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We're we we still a young country over in America?
It is going to bring up the question, would you rather have
nothing but old stuff or or no old stuff?
I mean, I like a happen medium because like, I don't want an
old swimsuit. I don't want old underwear,
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modern things. I like the the one piece thing
you don't like wearing the the rubber hat thing that the ladies
used to wear. No, I really like.
AC so like, yeah, especially now, especially this time of
year, yeah. Yeah.
So, but then there's also some things that I'm like, oh, I like
(15:01):
the older style of that, the good quality of it.
And I look at older houses, I'm like, oh, those are beautiful.
But then I start thinking about the maintenance, upkeep.
And then also I'm like, does it actually have central AC or do
you have to get a window unit? And yeah.
I'm in a 50s home and had to putin new Windows and that was a
(15:24):
pretty penny, you know? But the house has been standing
since then and it's in fantasticshape.
Whereas like if it's been in fantastic shape since it was
built, it didn't need any work houses built recently, you know,
maybe 20-30 years. And those things have some
serious issues because of the way they're built.
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So it's, you know, there's a giving a take, I guess.
Yeah, Yeah. Well, and another place I went
up there in New in New England, it was a thrift store tied to
like a senior Community Center. So the thrift store was actually
a revenue generator for the Senior Center.
So the money that they were raising there went to senior
(16:05):
program senior meals for the people in the area that that go
to the Senior Center. And I did buy, I bought a
necklace there. It was a costume jewelry that I
really liked. It was really pretty like I must
say, like jade green, like pearls almost type thing.
Bought it for $3 and I felt likethat was a steal and a bargain.
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Also, it made me realize a lot of thrift stores are super clean
and organized and the clothing, the things that they have there
are actually really high qualitybecause while they do accept
donations, they have to turn around and sell it to, you know,
(16:47):
help out A5O1C3, whatever it maybe.
And the ladies that were workingat this store, 1 super
organized, 2 very clean and three, there was a lot of people
working there that day. But yeah, it was it was really
nice. I think it was there.
I was there the Saturday before Father's Day.
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So they had a Father's Day sale going on, and the Father's Day
sale was something like, if you like in the men's rack, if he
bought something there, it was like a 2 for one.
And so like you essentially comein and buy the men's clothes so
that they could replenish it with other stuff.
But yeah, it was cool. It was, it was really nice to
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walk around to see a lot of their stuff.
Honestly, the women's clothing up there was Primo super nice.
And then Jake Jacob, you know, Itravel a lot and I like getting
souvenir shirts of the places I've been to.
OK, souvenir shirts RIP off. RIP off.
Like you're going to go to a souvenir shop, you're going to
(17:53):
spend 1520 bucks on a shirt that's not good quality.
Everyone else has it like, you know, but hey, it's a souvenir
shirt. What?
You know you're not going to wear it.
Garments that you see along the the tourist places, yeah, you're
going to get what you're going to get.
Except when you go to a thrift store.
Local thrift store because you know what they were selling.
(18:17):
No. Awesome graphic Tees of local
events. So people donate it like their
5K, their marathon shirts, theirhigh school T-shirts.
And I was going, you know what? That's a much cooler, like,
local T-shirt vibe than like, going to your souvenir shop and
getting something very, you know, generic.
(18:38):
But I was like, yeah, I want to show people I ran a marathon in
this small town. You have a marathon, but the
design was really cool and and also it was like the shirt was
still in really good condition. So that's a that's a tidbit for
anyone that's traveling and you want to bring back a souvenir
shirt or souvenir stuff, go to the local thrift store as they
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have things that are very uniqueto the neighborhood because
local people donated. That would be way cool.
Like when you go to these placesthat are out of town, swing by
and see if you can find a shirt from their minor Baseball League
team because their their mascotsare always zany and weird and
very regional, you know? Well, like somebody had turned
(19:24):
in. They had for sale like a high
school wrestling team shirt. I was like, oh, that's pretty
cool. Like, you know, someone's going
to ask me like, oh, did you go to that high school?
And like no, but I bought a shirt near there.
You could pretend you did, and you could do it while faking an
accent. There we go.
(19:45):
Yes, I went to the high school in the Northeast and I was on
the wrestling team and I am a pirate.
But it yeah, just stopped at around at a couple places,
talked to several people there. Like I said, most thrift stores
are doing it to support A5O1C3. Nonprofit organization goes back
(20:09):
to the community and again, really good stuff.
There's a difference between a thrift store and a consignment
store. Do you know what that is, Jake?
So consignment is I, I give you my stuff, you sell it and keep
some of the money. Whereas thrift store, I mean, I
don't think I can get, I can tryto sell you something.
(20:32):
So thrift stores, usually someone has donated stuff to the
consignment store is I've taken a bunch of clothes and you, you
know, this, the shop either buysit from me and then they resell
it for a markup or it stays on their rack.
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And then once it sells, I get a portion of those proceeds.
But thrift stores are they do take donations.
They also go and pick up stuff at the state sales and things
like that. So people tend to curate items
in those situations. But I've come to find out that I
really like shopping at thrift stores and consignment stores
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and I love going to them, especially if I'm in a different
state of going like, oh, what isthis local community, you know,
what are they get rid of or whatdo they wear?
You know, all that stuff. So.
It's a different way of getting exposed to the local flavor, you
know, It's not just with food. It's like, hey, what?
What's the regional thing going on as far as stuff?
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And the antiques store I went into in this old Guild hall and
this, this whole building is probably, I'm going to say it's
probably 3800 square feet. Like it's a pretty big building
to have all these antiques in there in one corner on the 1st
floor, one corner in the back, which probably would have been
(21:58):
like maybe the original bathroomor something like that mud room.
They had a bunch of old farm equipment like garden equipment,
like things that you know one, don't poke yourself because
you're going to need a tetanus shot 2 don't stab your brother
with it because they're going todie.
I'm going wow they're selling weapons here.
(22:18):
This is awesome You're. Really good advice not to stab
your brother Julie. I mean advice, you don't have to
take it. You know, you and I've talked
about going to some of these stores and taking like the the
lead light so you can see like what glass is made of lead and
all that stuff. Man, if I had a LED light to
take in antique store, they had a lot of old bottles, a lot of
(22:42):
old dolls. They had a whole collection of
salt and pepper shakers, like antique ones.
And I know people collect those,but like, and I tried to find
you some frog ones. They didn't have any frog ones,
but I, I know you were so looking forward to that.
But yeah, it was a cool experience.
And I encourage everyone, as people are going on summer
(23:04):
vacations and stuff, go to go toyour local thrift stores, stop
into an antique store, marvel atwhat they got.
It's cool. I'm trying to figure out like
what what do you think is our regional, you know, thrift store
sign, like what is our local flavor?
Live, laugh, love. Oh God, yeah, probably.
(23:25):
Oh no, just the sign. Blessed or eat?
Yeah, it is a bunch of affirmation signs, which is
great to find in second hand because that means somebody's
like, Nope, not true. Taking this back, you can have
it first. My son now says cursed, he's
(23:47):
going to say something else. But yeah.
Yeah, I, you know, well, and I was talking to some friends
today about this of, you know, if you go to an antique store in
a large city like the DFW Metroplex one, their prices are
higher. And part of that's because their
(24:07):
rent is higher, but also people will pay for that, right?
If you go to a thrift store outside of a busy metro area,
you can get some really good interesting deals because they
don't have a they don't have thefoot traffic like our Metroplex
people do. So being able to go into some of
(24:28):
those thrift stores and and haggle with those shopkeepers,
like you can do that easier outside of a big city.
Yeah. And then you're going to get
stuff that more more likely camefrom a place that is older.
You know, if it's metro, people are coming and going all the
time, but go go a county over. Yeah, you know, go.
(24:52):
This way or that way and it'll you'll be surprised.
Well, I do have a feeling like, I think a lot of times people
will take especially furniture from IKEA and like that's
probably what you're finding at the thrift stores around here,
something that has been made in bulk and then people want to
change their decor or whatever it may be and then nothing.
Wrong with that. I mean that that that counts
(25:14):
too. And man, don't knock IKEA.
It's been pretty good lately, but.
Well, no, but that's the thing of like for people that may be
wanting to look for antiques, Yes, there are antiques who are
here in the Metroplex for sure, but also a lot of those store
owners, they travel outside of state to get the deals to bring
(25:35):
to their store here and make a chunk of change on it.
Well, I guess, I guess what you were saying is, hey, if you
were, if you happen to be traveling, might as well make a
make it a point to stop by someplace and especially in an
area you've never been and make,you know, bring a bag just for
(25:56):
the purposes of the stuff you might find there.
Yeah, do it, Do it. Yeah, what are you waiting for?
Go. Go on vacation.
Geez. Anyway, that's what I wanted to
bring this week and it was fun. Fun trying to find treasures and
someone else's backyard and makes me want to go do more of
(26:17):
it. Well, thanks for bringing it to
us. Like you, you are a jet setter,
so the more more of the stuff you do, you need to like
document it. And I want to see the collection
of bizarre regional high school sports team shirts that you
collect. Actually, you know what you can
get at a lot of antique stores, which I, I can't do it because
(26:40):
I, I'm a minimalist and I can't just have all this stuff in my
house. But you can usually find
someone's old yearbook like highschool and like to look at those
from the 20s and the 30s have gone.
Oh, that wouldn't pass anymore in this day and age.
No. Well.
I hope so. But yeah, it's always
(27:02):
interesting to look at what people got.
So that's what I got for this week, Jake.
See you next time. Bye bye, bye, bye, bye.
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