Dig This Treasure!

On Saturday, there was a mega snowpocalypse here in Michigan.  The roads were pretty much a ghost town and the snow plows were mysteriously MIA.  Zach and I stayed holed up all day watching the accumulation, until I went completely stir crazy and decided I had to get out. 

Like a true crazy person, I decided to take the baby to the Plymouth auction nearby.  I drove 5 mph all the way there and it wasn’t actually that bad.  You could tell though that everyone at the auction was judging me hard.  Sorry not sorry!

Everett usually sleeps anytime we go out into the world, but for some reason he was wide awake at the auction.  I camped out near the door so that I could bolt in case he started screaming.  Eventually he did fall asleep. 

What I didn’t anticipate was that I had a baby in a giant car seat, and therefore it was impossible for me to go walk around the tables of items and see what was up for bidding.  I figured I would  just bid at random if something sounded good when it went up on the block.

After a million garbage-y items, I was getting frustrated…and bored.  Finally, I grabbed the car seat and walked up to the front and started looking at the items.  It was hard to negotiate the small area while holding a super bulky car seat, but it turned out to be worth it.

I saw an old silver rattle I wanted to buy for Everett, as well as a SASHA DOLL!  Still in the box!  Unfortunately it didn’t look like me (it was a boy doll) but I figured I could buy it to resell.

The rattle went up for auction first and it was in a lot of a bunch of other random items.  I won all the items for $15.  There was a knee brace in there that I gave away for free to some lady.  There was also a set of old dominoes that I put on the ground and forgot about.  If you have my dominoes, you’re welcome.

Everett loves the rattle.  Also in the lot was an old sterling silver lipstick case.

There is a cool hidden mirror that opens on the side:

Only one dude was bidding against me for this lot, and after I won it, he came up to me and asked to buy the lipstick case.  Knowing that he went up to $14 trying to win it, I told him he could buy it for $8.  He scoffed so I then said, “Ok how about $5?"  He looked at me like I was totally crazy!  But really, he was the crazy one.  I kept the lipstick case, obviously.  It seems like these things sell on ebay, so it will end up there.

The last item in the lot was this pewter plane, which I might try to sell on ebay or just keep for Everett’s nursery.  It is pretty adorable.

So after winning this lot, I was sticking around for the Sasha doll.  And would you believe it?  I MISSED OUT ON ANOTHER SASHA DOLL.  This has happened SO MANY TIMES.  Seriously, I am cursed.  What happened was that some other dolls went up for auction and no one wanted them.  So the auctioneer threw in another pile of stuff, which the Sasha doll was part of.  I didn’t even notice.  The whole lot sold for $20.  I almost cried.

I went up to the woman who won all the dolls and asked if she wanted to sell the Sasha.  She said she came to the auction specifically to buy it, so no she wouldn’t be giving it up.  This led me to believe that even if I had noticed that the doll was up for bidding, that I would have lost it anyway.

Oh well!  Maybe next time….but probably not!

-Erin