Happy Camper Estate Sales & More

03/09/2026

When you see this carpet in the basement…you know it’s going to be a treasure hunt!

More info: https://www.estatesales.net/KS/Derby/67037/4833861

03/03/2026

Flashback!!!
Who else loved these puzzles?!

02/28/2026

Thank you for a near sell-out sale!!!
We ❤️ you guys!

02/14/2026

It’s much more than just “stuff” sometimes! 💜

I drove nine hours to clear out my aunt's house after she passed, expecting the usual sad task of sorting through decades of accumulated stuff. What I found instead made me sit down on her kitchen floor and just stare.
Purple glass everywhere. Every surface, every shelf, every windowsill covered in purple glass that caught the afternoon light and turned her whole house into something that looked like the inside of a geode. Vases and candy dishes and goblets and bowls, some deep violet, some that sun-purpled glass that starts clear and turns color over decades. There had to be three hundred pieces, maybe more.
My aunt never married, never had kids. Spent forty years teaching third grade and living alone with her collections. My mother used to say it was sad, the way she "obsessed over things instead of people." I believed that for most of my life, thought she was lonely and filling voids. I was completely wrong.
Going through her papers, I found receipts and notes spanning back to 1987. She didn't just buy this glass, she hunted for it. Estate sales every weekend, antique shops in three states, collector communities online. She knew the history of every single item.
There was a letter in her glass cabinet addressed to "whoever ends up with my things." She wrote that she'd spent her whole life being told she should want marriage and children, should want what everyone else wanted. But what she actually wanted was this: beauty she could touch, color she could live inside, the thrill of finding something rare and bringing it home where nobody could tell her it was too much.
I listed a few pieces on Tedooo app to see if other collectors might want them, and within hours I had messages from dozens of people who knew my aunt, who'd traded with her, who considered her a friend. One woman said my aunt had sent her a rare piece for free during cancer treatment, just to give her something beautiful to focus on. She had this whole community I never knew existed.
I'm keeping most of the collection, moving it into my house where my husband says it's "a lot" with that tone. But I finally understand what my aunt knew: there's nothing sad about loving something this much. She wasn't filling a void. She created exactly the world she wanted to live in.

02/04/2026

Inspiration for some of those less-appealing estate sale finds:

https://www.countryliving.com/diy-crafts/g3030/flea-market-flips/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=mgu_fb_clv_m_ios_am_sv_g3030&fbclid=IwZnRzaAPwIOBleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqzEhXf4sBHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4PGVepLlj_Rjd178fXwhnfL2o-BiGCEWGCBt0wPZRao7RjZQsP2l6NBizTPg_aem_CRLw8vM00v5p_jGXQg0Fvw&utm_id=120243834369920404&utm_content=120243834369950404&utm_term=120243834369940404

When you see the before photos, you'll hardly believe the afters are the same pieces.

02/02/2026

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01/29/2026

🎉 Seventh Anniversary Giveaway!!!
Congrats Margie Vietti for guessing the number of kisses in this cute Happy Camper mug!

77

Thank you everyone for your guesses!

01/24/2026

Our very first sale was seven years ago!!!!!!!
Sale #149 next week.
Thank you ALL for supporting my career change 🫶🏼