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Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market Opens for the 2019 Season

Once the flea market season is under way, we at Unusual Offerings watch weather reports like farmers, worrying about rain and wind, heat...

You’ve probably worn a button at some point in your life. Folks wear them for all sorts of reasons: to state support for (or against) a...

Zander decided to sit this article out. Since I’m a straight woman, some may find it a bit odd that I embrace cheesecake art in all its...

Unusual Offerings buys doilies at auctions and estate sales, and has done so since its inception, because they’re small pieces of folk...

This is the third year in a row in which three generations of nerds attended Comic-Con: Maggie Thompson, Valerie Thompson, and Devon...

I’ve adored these posters for years, which is why they were the subject of my first blog post on Unusual Offerings. Zander and I picked...

An estate sale company for an invitation-only sale called in Zander and me to view what was presented as a hoarder house. We had no idea...

When you’re selling at the same flea market week after week, you want to bring different items, so your regular customers don’t get...

Earth Day was a perfect excuse to bargain hunt at the Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market. Most vendors offer second-hand goodies looking for...

“Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Since we started selling at Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market, we...