2018 Reader Favorite Vintage & Antique Posts
Hi there! I hope you’re settling into the new year nicely. I redecorated my antique booth this past Friday; what with the holidays and all, I had practically abandoned it. Yikes! My sweet husband and I also hit up a couple of thrift stores and made several purchases. I’m planning a blog post about thrifting soon and will include my purchases. Would you like that? Today, however, I’m sharing reader favorite vintage and antique posts from last year.
Interested in other year-end round-up posts? You can find them here: 2017 (posts), 2017 (finds), 2016 (what sold), 2016 (finds),  2015 (posts), and 2015 (finds). And last week I posted about 2018: A Year in Review, which contained some more personal achievements related to the blog.
Reader Favorites: Vintage 101 Posts
Vintage 101 posts are those that provide valuable vintage information, as opposed to those that involve vintage-inspired craft and DIY projects (those favorites are below).
Your absolute favorite blog post [ever] is the one on which I based my new eBook. It’s called: 10 Vintage Items Often Overlooked & Undervalued at Garage Sales. Thousands upon thousands of people have visited that post.
Other posts in the top fifteen include most of my Price Guides and many of my What’s Selling in Vintage & Antiques posts. Some of the other posts you liked I’ve linked below:
5 Things I’m looking for at Garage Sales in 2018
Readers Report What’s Selling in Vintage & Antiques
Collecting Vintage Cross Stitch Samplers
Collecting Vintage & Antique Butter Pats
15 Fab Farmhouse Vintage Finds
Reader Favorites: Vintage-Inspired Projects
13 Unique Materials You Can Use to Create Farmhouse Signs
How to Make a Farmhouse Wreath With a Vintage Sieve
How to Hand Stamp Vintage Spoons
You’ll Never Look at Antique Door Plates the Same Way Again
How to Make Concrete Garden Markers
My Favorites: Vintage Inspired Projects
I’m breaking the rules and squeezing in a few of my personal favorites. They are newer posts that haven’t had time to rack up reader views yet.
Antique door turned into a farmhouse style serving tray (cost: $3).
Hideous hutch makeover (cost: $15, sold at the antique shop: $100).
Foyer makeover (mirror cost: $3, console table cost: $5).
My Favorite Vintage & Antique Finds
Because I can, I’m throwing in a collection of my favorite vintage finds from 2018 as well:
1. Vintage luggage (cost: $1 each, value: $8-18 each)
2. Antique basket (cost: $10, sold in antique shop: $40).
3. The Sugar Plum, a WWI Red Cross cook book (cost: $1, sold on eBay: $17.99)
1. Oak farm table (cost: $20, sold in antique shop: $62).
2. Large document box (cost: $20, sold in antique shop: $75).
1. Large ironstone pitcher (cost: $20, sold in antique shop: $70).
2. Vintage c.1940’s Superman Valentine (cost: 50¢, sold on eBay for $16.99).
3. MCM Danish glass casserole (cost: 50¢, sold on eBay: $69.99).
1. Petri 35mm film camera (cost: $2, sold on eBay: $66).
2. Vintage red wagon (cost: $11, sold in antique shop: $49.50).
1. MCM plate (cost: 50¢, haven’t listed yet).
2. Bird cage (cost: $
3. Lucite cat pin (cost: 50¢, sold on eBay: 141.49).
1. Yellowware basketweave pitcher with 2″ crack/crazing (cost: $4, sold in antique shop: $22)
2. Antique French decanter labels (cost: $3, sold on eBay: $19.78).
3. Antique blue & white butter crock (cost: $10, value: $65-70).
I hope you enjoyed taking a look back at 2018 with boths it’s informational and creative posts. I promise you more of the same vintage goodness you’ve come to expect in the new year! And hopefully a few surprises along the way as well 🙂
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Great post! That lucite cat pin return!
Ha ha–such a cool piece. There’s so much still to learn in this vintage biz, right? Glad you enjoyed the post, Rita!
Great year of wonderful, inspiring vintage, Diana! Here’s to a whole new year of vintage finds!
Thank you Lora!! Same to you–happy hunting and happy blogging over at Lora B Create & Ponder 😉
I can’t believe that lucite pin either! wow! someone must have known something! or put in the wrong numbers! hahaha! I have a connection to almost everything you’ve shown here. I have a wonderful framed all-in-red 14 x 18 cross stitch in a red frame that I found at an estate sale for $2. I pick up butter pats when I find them, and have one from New Mexico that I was told belonged to the Harvey House restaurants. I have a box of silverware that I want to stamp. I bought a small woven basket with lid that matched my larger ones for $4. didn’t realize that it was filled with the silverware, and that’s probably what they were selling. I just wanted the basket, but I kept it all. I have a kit for the garden markers. Received in trade at a plant swap. Your ebay prices are terrific! What wonderful profit! (p.s. info on bird cage is missing.) 🙂 And since you asked…. I DEFINITELY want to see your recent purchases from the thrifting trip. I have to live vicariously through you.
I know that pin was crazy. I had no idea what I really had until I did some research on eBay. Those type of Lucite pins are VERY collectible. I love connections!! It’s what I live for–thank you for telling me all of them, Patty. (Thanks for the heads up on the lack of bird cage info, too.) I’ll be writing about my thrifting trip(s) ASAP 🙂
And what a great year it’s been for you, Diana! I’m happy for you. You do everything with gusto and it shows. Your blog has grown and I can see you growing by leaps and bounds as well. I was so happy to hear of your successful surgery — you were on my prayer list! Thanks for sharing with Vintage Charm and keep up the great work! xo Kathleen
I love that word, “gusto!” Thank you for the lovely compliment, Kathleen, and for praying for me–that means the world. I so appreciate your encouragement and feel blessed to have you as a dear blogging friend 🙂