Garage Sales and Kilts (and accessories)

**NewPiperinNY** · 15th April 09, 10:51 AM

I was just going through some threads (and pictures.. I love pictures .. especially of sgian dubhs) and I was wondering ...

Have any of the bretheren (and ladies too) found garage sales to be a resource of 'stuff', such as sgian dubhs, sporrans and such? I can see that many people wouldn't know what they had when it come to kilts and accessories.

I would love to find a beautiful sgian dubh on a table marked $5... ya know the ruby or amethyst in the stock, dated 1850..

there I go dreaming again.

**Colonel MacNeal** · 15th April 09, 11:09 AM

I think it highly unlikely.

**The Barry** · 15th April 09, 11:18 AM

As much as I feel surrounded by my kilted brethren, we kilties really aren't very common. So, a garage sale featuring kilt accessories is going to be equally (if not more so) rare.

However, you might have a bit more luck with estate sales, depending on where you are located. Just a thought.

**NewPiperinNY** · 15th April 09, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Colonel MacNeal

I think it highly unlikely.

you would think so... BUT... as a guitarist and musician, I find 'deals' all the time. Items that people don't know what it is, or just getting rid of something without really researching it's worth (and I don't mean to bring up the morals of not telling someone that the 1959 Fender Stratocaster they are selling for $200 is really worth $15k)

I play an amp made up of a $25 Fender Head and $50 2x10 bottom... and it's killer. I sing through a mic that retails new for $200 but picked up for $15 and has been my mainstay for about 10 years so far (wow... I just it's been that long)

**JolyStNicholas** · 15th April 09, 11:33 AM

I really think most of us scavange yard sale, thrift shops, estate sales, flee markets etc for all the "Good Deals" we can find.

My last great find was a hand knit Tam{Black} for $0.50.

**McMurdo** · 15th April 09, 11:42 AM

One member got an L&M day wear sporran at a garage sale for $5 or $10 about a year ago. Deals are out there.

**Highlander31** · 15th April 09, 05:10 PM

Look long enough,...and a deal will roll your way.

**Bigkahuna** · 15th April 09, 06:14 PM

Best deal I ever found at a garage sale was an original Rev. War naval cutlass for $6.

**Malcolm MacWilliam** · 15th April 09, 07:38 PM

Never found a sporran, or sgian dubh, or such stuff....but I do find tartan that I make into kilts or wear as a great plaide. BUT, I am always looking. Malcolm