

You can easily ‘favorite’ the sales for the weekend, which adds them to a map that makes it easy to sale hop,” says Lauren. “I use which also has an app that will map out where estate sales are located. How do you find out about an estate sale?Ī number of aggregate websites and apps have popped up to help homeowners market their sales and shoppers find them. All you have to do is find out about it, show up, and make your purchases. Go without any expectations and sometimes you’ll go home with an unexpected treasure.”Īnyone can attend an estate sale. “What I like about estate sales is you never know what you’re gonna find,” says Rodney Lawrence, principal at Rodney Lawrence Inc. And you might be able to see a few photos of the inside before you attend-at most. They might take place over the course of a few days or just be one day and done. “For every sale I’ve attended, I went for one thing, but also left with something completely unexpected!” So what are they, exactly? An estate sale is a sale in which all the items inside someone’s house are available for purchase. “Estate sales are like real life treasure hunts,” says Lauren Caron, founding designer at Studio Laloc.

For those thrifters who are, shall we say, a bit bored with the predictable nature of their local vintage homewares store or even auction house, estate sales are the answer.
