Cindy, whose Romantic Home blog (and Flickr site) features great finds she's used in her home, recently purchased a charming old wooden screen door frame at the De Anza College Flea Market in CA. She's using the screen frame indoors to display other interesting items.
She tells a fairly common flea market shopper tale: going to a flea in order to buy an item seen previously, discovering that the item's been sold, but leaving with something else entirely. Instead of the old adage, "You snooze, you lose," it's more like, "You snooze, you lose, you win anyway."
The lesson of the story is one any flea market lover will confirm: go often! You obviously don't have to buy something each time you visit a flea market, but the more often you go the more likely you are to find some just right for you.
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