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Friends and Finds at the City Club Flea Market 

11/28/2016

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I work full time, and like everyone else, I am pressed for time with friends. One way I find time for friendship and fun is volunteering at the annual Flea Market at the Ann Arbor City Club. I usually try to work the cashier station with my friend Stephanie. She is in my City Club poetry group, and I love hanging out with her. In between customer crunches we have a little quiet time to catch up.
 
Another cool thing is that I also get to see some of the great finds at the flea market. I will have looked over the several rooms filled with donated goods more than once, but it is overwhelming, and I’m never able to notice everything. Then a customer will come to my cashier station with something so special that I cannot believe I overlooked it. Usually I am just jealous as they make their purchases and leave. But one time a customer changed her mind and decided against a lovely ceramic candle holder made by a well-known local artist. Of course I snapped it up and immediately. It was a great buy.
 
The City Club Flea Market is the biggest annual fund raiser for this community-based organization. In 2017, the two-day event will be held on Saturday March 4, 9am to 4pm, and Sunday March 5, 12 to 4pm (everything half priced on Sunday). Many treasure are to be found: jewelry, linens, antiques/collectibles, household items, books, toys, art, picture frames and more. A number of years ago, my mother bought me six Japanese wood block prints that I had framed to hang in my dining room. You really never know what you will find at this event.
 
Hey, maybe Stephanie and I will see you at the Flea Market this year. We’ll be the ones chatting nonstop at the cashiers table.
 
About the author of today's post: Kathleen Fitzgerald has been a member of the Ann Arbor City Club since 1999. She is a portfolio manager with a global financial services firm. Kathleen and her husband, Martin Tata, make their home at Liberty Lofts in the city of Ann Arbor.

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Teresa | MEW link
6/8/2022 04:59:58 am

Millions of Americans are attracted to antiques and flea-market culture, regardless as participants or as viewers of the constantly popular Antiques Road show or the current hit American Choosers. Ah the flea market. The great American past time in where visitors hunt through your refuse and act like what they're purchasing won't conclude on eBay. We've been a fan of the flea market since we were a kid. There's just some kind of unrecognizable beauty when you go. The fun of the search is actually the perfect feeling if you're a collector and when you go to a huge flea market, the infinite options can be somewhat intense. Just like a thrift store trip, you just not aware whether you'll move out with junk or gold.

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Bug Exterminator Iowa link
1/3/2023 04:28:42 pm

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