Last week, the kids and I went to an estate sale. I enjoy going to estate sales because you never know what kind of bargains you may find. Sometimes, estate sales are very clean and occasionally, they can be rather messy. Since I am very allergic to cats, I can always tell when a household had a cat. When my allergies flare up, I know I have to be quick because the longer I stay in a home with "cat" the sicker I may become. The esate sale we went to last week had everything...cat, very smelly, very dirty...it had to be a hoarder's home. This sale was rather overwhelming just in the sheer quanitity of items for sale. The only good thing was the prices. I guess when you have so much to sell and the conditions not the best, you price to sell. The kids and I managed to quickly look and pay for the purchases in less than 40 minutes...a record for me.
Whenever I purchase items like vintage linens, lace, and hankies they go straight to the washing machine. Everything I purchase gets washed! Same for containers, tins, etc.
Would you be surprised to learn that I also wash the buttons! The items I purchased this past week not only got washed with detergent, oxyclean and then just for good measure, everything got a generous spray of Febreze. I know, I probably went overboard with the cleaning but I just had to make sure everything got cleaned.
Here is a picture of all the buttons, threadspools and sewing maching attachments I purchased...after I washed them, I set them on the towel to dry.
A closeup of the Vintage Buttons...a great bargain!
Sewing attach ments..a bag full of them for just $1! I have a book that will tell me what each attachment is used for.
Some of my favorite white Vintage buttons:
Whenever I purchase items like vintage linens, lace, and hankies they go straight to the washing machine. Everything I purchase gets washed! Same for containers, tins, etc.
Would you be surprised to learn that I also wash the buttons! The items I purchased this past week not only got washed with detergent, oxyclean and then just for good measure, everything got a generous spray of Febreze. I know, I probably went overboard with the cleaning but I just had to make sure everything got cleaned.
Here is a picture of all the buttons, threadspools and sewing maching attachments I purchased...after I washed them, I set them on the towel to dry.
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