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Garage Sale America
Littlefield, Bruce
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
There's something neighborly about being invited into someone's yard or home and encouraged to look through their stuff. Then allowed to buy it—or not. In this witty, informative book, Bruce Littlefield takes you on a voyeuristic adventure into homes and lives across America to discover everything we love to buy, sell, and collect—one garage sale at a time.

Renting a truck and toting a sack full of a thousand crisp one-dollar bills, Littlefield hunts his way across America from the World's Longest Yard Sale to the World's Biggest Garage Sale—not to mention every barn, stoop, estate, and tag sale in between. Detailed photographs offer an in-depth look at a range of collectibles, while first-person stories from garage salers and expert collectors offer insight to the art of the bargain—with loads of trade secrets thrown in for free. He also shows how to incorporate those unique buys into every room in the home through a virtual walkthrough tour of his 1940s' farmhouse that he decorated with garage sale finds. A month-by-month guide to the best sales around the country and a garage sale glossary round out this entertaining volume that offers fun, sale smarts, and infectious enthusiasm on every page.

This is an essential guide not only for the millions of savvy bargain hunters throughout the United States, but for anyone and everyone who simply loves America, its vistas, and its people.

Whatever you're looking for, you'll find out how to get it in Garage Sale America.

AUTHOR BIO
Bruce Littlefield is a New York-based designer, writer, and restaurateur. Hailed as a "design and lifestyle guru" by Publisher's Weekly, he is the author of the recently published Garage Sale America and Airstream Living, and co-writer of the best-selling Use What You've Got and Other Business Lessons I learned from My Mom with real-estate magnate Barbara Corcoran. Originally from the south, decorating for Christmas is as natural as breathing to Bruce, and each December finds him attempting over-the-top mischief. His personal collection of Christmas treasures can be found displayed proudly every hol iday season in a 1940s Catskills' farmhouse, which he renovated and decorated himself.


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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0061151653
ISBN(13-digit): 9780061151651
Dewey Decimal: 381/.1950973
Library of Congress: 2006101335
Book Publisher: Harper Design Intl
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 143
Paper Weight (lb): 17.28 oz



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