I decided to take my camera so that I could blog about our little excursion...
There is all sorts of weirdness to be found at swap meets...
Are you in the market for a backyard water feature? How about a skull waterfall (with optional steam)?
Once your lovely water feature is installed, you can kick back and relax with your hookah pipe (with convenient travel case). (I'll say it again: there really should be a Sarcasm Font...)
There's also plenty of crap for sale...
But there are pretty cool things too. Like furniture.
I like the rusticity of this table...
and I really think this is so cool (albeit totally impractical since I feed 4 boys...)
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| This is usually where I buy the sweet onions for my homemade onion rings. |
...and the Churro Guy...
...and fun, inexpensive costume jewelry...
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| Each of these pieces was only $5. I got this fun owl necklace... cuz it was silly and only $5. |
Beauty products, hats, food, clothes, bags, toys, art, flowers... I love that there is so much to see and so much of it is an awesome deal.
Do you have a swap meet near you?
14 comments:
Thanks for taking me along. Great pics.
Love the bench and the table.
Hugs
SueAnn
Home-sweet-home ;)
What a great little trip.
Thanks for the peek at the swap, it's been a few years.
Are they still selling cars out there too? And cutting hair?
I used to love going to that swap meet!! I keep telling the people here in North Carolina they have no idea what a REAL swap meet is about!! They call them flea markets here and it is mostly junk and very small!! Thanks for bringing back memories!
Haven't been to the OC Swap in years, even though it's less than 20 minutes away. And, now I'm not sure I want to go, either, LOL. Thanks for sharing your trip!
We love the Costa Mesa swapmeet!! I love going there first thing in the morning, then heading out to Balboa and enjoying the beach.
And those churros are the BEST ever!
Back in the day we went every weekend to the Saugus/Newhall swap meet. Still have a couple things from there as a matter of fact. But what the helll, are those things new fangled bongs????
~Bliss~
No swapmeets around here! I bet PDX and Eugene has some doozies...man...I love those hookah CASES.
Aw, this post made me all nostalgic--my husband I lived right around the corner on Fair Drive when we first got married, and went to the Swap meet all the time. Never really bought anything though for our tiny apartment :)
Maybe that last guy bought those shorts new at the swap meet and loved them so much he had to put them right now ;)
I have never been to a swap meet
Maybe that last guy bought those shorts new at the swap meet and loved them so much he had to put them right now ;)
I have never been to a swap meet
Looks like tons of fun! I'm drooling over the shoes!
I also have the most patient husband in the world, and incidentally - he would totally wear an outfit like that!
I think we have one around here, although I'm sure not so big. I'll have to check!
How fun! I wish we had them around here. One of my favorite things in Hawaii was the swap meet... crazy crap there for sure!
I had never heard of a swap meet until I moved to SoCal 26 years ago! I remember frequenting this one a lot back then, though I haven't been there in years! It was 50 cents or $1. to get in, and it was usually great entertainment even if you didn't buy anything :)
We have a crummy flea mkt. in Grand Junction but it's mostly crappy over priced junk.
I do miss the swap meets in San Diego. There was a really big one at the Sports arena and another one out at Spring Valley. You could find great stuff also. I still have a couple things I bought at them, even jewelry and we moved away in 92.
There are no antique or vintage mkts/shows here at all. I love a good antique show. The antique stores they do have here aren't open that much either.
It's hard after you've lived around great swap meets and shows not to have them anywhere close to where you live. The people watching was definitely worth getting up early for if nothing else.
At least Helena, MT had great antique shows all the time and Bowling Green, KY had awesome vintage stores, antique stores and shows, all kinds of great stuff going on.
Sorry for digressing to other topics.
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