Cindy's Collectibles, Clothing & Accessories: On the Road with Cindy's Collectibles: Moreno Valley

That's me and my husband & our two sons
at last year's Santa Anita Derby

The most enjoyable part of this business is shopping estate sales with my husband. There are quite a few things that need to happen in order to get an online listing ready for sale, everything from acquiring the item, filming, writing the listing, posting it on eBay and corresponding with customers while promoting the sale and then finally shipping the items. It is hard work, but it is fun searching for bargains that I can bring my customers. I want to share some of my travels as they really are adventures for me and my husband.

Inland Empire

Our territory is the Inland Empire area of Southern California (Southwest Riverside County). We live in Murrieta and for the most part our estate sale area stretches from our hometown to Temecula in the south, to Lake Elsinore in the north and all areas in between including Menifee, Wildomar & Canyon Lake. We have good luck in Sun City and Hemet where there are a lot of estate sales and on occasion we venture as far away as Los Angeles or San Diego. My process starts by making a google-map of the estate sales in the local area using information from one of two web sites; estate sales.net or estate sales.org. It’s an early morning business as most estate sales begin by 8:00 am on Saturday’s when I seem to get the best value for my money.

For 2013 we decided to expand our territory so today we are on our way to Moreno Valley or “Mo Valley” as it is known locally. A small town about thirty miles (30) away and known for good youth soccer programs and a high school girls basketball team that recently captured a CIF Division I championship. Today it has an estate sale hosted by three brothers in a large two story home that is just stocked! It’s a 4-star sale with plenty of fine china, crystal and glassware including silverplated items as well several high quality tea sets. I focused on the tea sets and picked out four in all …

Tea Set with Musical Tea Pot

Delton Mini Tea Set

FB Rogers Silverplated Tea Set

Traditions Porcelain Mini Tea Set

Arcoroc Tumbler-style Glasses,
Platter, Ice Bucket

In addition I spied a dazzling set of Arcoroc Tumbler-style Bar Glasses with a glass platter and glass Ice Bucket made in France that are finely detailed with 22k gold inlay on every item. I also purchased a set of Baker & Hart Christmas themed dishes. Meanwhile my husband who likes fine china from Europe (I think it’s the Scottish blood) was focused on a stunning set made in Poland by Wawel in the Rose Garden pattern with gold trim, 45 dishes in all. He also found a large vintage Lenox Vase, bone white with gold trim and the gold Lenox seal and a 7-piece Montparnasse boudoir set, made by InternationalSilver Company still sealed in the original box and packaging.

Wawel Fine China Made in Poland

Lenox Flower Vase

Overall, it was a great estate sale for Cindy’s Collectibles, the dealer was very nice and gave me reasonable prices on everything making it well worth the drive to Moreno Valley. We purchased Ten (10) items in all at this estate sale and they are already available for sale in my eBay store.

The links below will take you to the eBay listings for all the items in this blog ...