50% OFF, LAST DAY, ALL MUST GO!! BIRMINGHAM ESTATE SALES is in VESTAVIA for 2 days! Join us!

50% OFF, LAST DAY, ALL MUST GO!! BIRMINGHAM ESTATE SALES is in VESTAVIA for 2 days! Join us!

BES Seek**Make sure you follow us on our website so that we don’t miss you at a sale!!! We’re also on Instagram, FB, twitter and we have our own Youtube channel! Join us on LinkedIn too!  DON”T be FOOLED by other companies posing as US!!  ** 

Join us in Vestavia for a 2 day sale!!! Jim and Jan are hosting!

Friday Sat March 15, 16 

10-3pm each day 

1401 Cosmos Circle Vestavia 

You know the drill! 

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Please READ BELOW:

** ALL SALES ARE FINAL!***  It’s up to YOU to plug something in, try it out, etc.  This is not kindergarten friends. (Although I really did love kindergarten.  Just sayin’)

NO PRE-SALES over the PHONE unless OTHERWISE STATED:

HOW TO SHOP THIS SALE:

*Keep our sales orderly! Do not ‘dump’ items out of things, if you move something put it back!

BE RESPECTFUL to one another — it’s just ‘stuff’.  No need to be ugly or rude to another customer. If we feel you continue to have aggressive behavior or don’t use your ‘MANNERS’ we will ask you to leave.

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PETS pictured are complete photo-bombs.  We do not sell pets.  We enjoy taking pictures of them because we love the furries!

All LARGE items are priced, and smaller ones of significant monetary value.  All smaller items are priced in a ‘group’ pricing.  Make a stack of all items at check out and we will give you a price on your group of items.  Happy Treasure Hunting! Woot Woot!

**Parking — Can only park on ONE side of the street ONLY!  Park on side of street that house is located on.  Do not block driveways or mailboxes please.  Thanks!

ALL SALES FINAL

WE accept CASH, CHECKS ($30 returned bank fee), Plastic (Debit/Credit) – additional 3% fee on all credit cards.  You can choose how to pay.  

*Because of the many people who attend our sales, questions re: individual items are very hard to answer —- just come to the sale!

We accept CASH/CREDIT – Debit run as credit (add 3% on all cards)

Come prepared to take your items home SAME DAY.

For insurance purposes, staff members are not able to carry heavy/large items for you.

You must arrange for your own people to carry/load/deliver your items.

We price ‘to sell’ first day and throughout the length of the sale.

We have the ‘right’ to go through any bags you bring into the sale.

Birmingham Estate Sales is not responsible for accidents nor is the home owner. You enter at your own risk, and in doing this, we have no liability for injury or damage to your or any items on you.

**Children must remain with parents at ALL times. We will tag those small people, give them a puppy a double espresso and send them on their way!

Bring bags/totes/boxes/newspapers for wrapping —  to help with your items.  We do not provide these.

If we SELL OUT of items before end of sale time, we will close the sale down early.

We APPRECIATE our customers – and thank you for coming to our estate sales!

Please note – owners may remove items that were originally to be part of the sale for whatever reason.  We apologize if this happens.  We know you come for certain items.  We try our best to make sure we are as accurate as possible with our photos and advertising.

The term ‘Woot’ is a happy word.  And used frequently in our ads.  Because we can.

BIRMINGHAM ESTATE SALES is in LIBERTY PARK for one day of Taxidermy blowout!

BIRMINGHAM ESTATE SALES is in LIBERTY PARK for one day of Taxidermy blowout!

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**Make sure you follow us on our website so that you don’t miss us at a sale! We’re also on FB, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn!  ** 

Betty and Joe are hosting!

Join us for a 1 day taxidermy blow out!!  Add to your man-cave or girls to the cabin!

Sat Feb 23 10-4pm ONE DAY ONLY!!

7125 Lake Run Circle Vestavia 

**Make sure you ONLY park on the OPPOSITE side of the street the house is located on.  Ticketing may occur.  Emergency vehicles MUST be able to pass freely.  No blocking mailboxes driveways or parking on grass.  Please and thank you.

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____________________________________________________

Please READ BELOW:

** ALL SALES ARE FINAL!***  It’s up to YOU to plug something in, try it out, etc.  This is not kindergarten friends. (Although I really did love kindergarten.  Just sayin’)

NO PRE-SALES over the PHONE unless OTHERWISE STATED:

HOW TO SHOP THIS SALE:

*Keep our sales orderly! Do not ‘dump’ items out of things, if you move something put it back!

BE RESPECTFUL to one another — it’s just ‘stuff’.  No need to be ugly or rude to another customer. If we feel you continue to have aggressive behavior or don’t use your ‘MANNERS’ we will ask you to leave.

call us bham bham

PETS pictured are complete photo-bombs.  We do not sell pets.  We enjoy taking pictures of them because we love the furries!

All LARGE items are priced, and smaller ones of significant monetary value.  All smaller items are priced in a ‘group’ pricing.  Make a stack of all items at check out and we will give you a price on your group of items.  Happy Treasure Hunting! Woot Woot!

**Parking — Can only park on ONE side of the street ONLY!  Park on side of street that house is located on.  Do not block driveways or mailboxes please.  Thanks!

ALL SALES FINAL

WE accept CASH, CHECKS ($30 returned bank fee), Plastic (Debit/Credit) – additional 3% fee on all credit cards.  You can choose how to pay.  

*Because of the many people who attend our sales, questions re: individual items are very hard to answer —- just come to the sale!

We accept CASH/CREDIT – Debit run as credit (add 3% on all cards)

Come prepared to take your items home SAME DAY.

For insurance purposes, staff members are not able to carry heavy/large items for you.

You must arrange for your own people to carry/load/deliver your items.

We price ‘to sell’ first day and throughout the length of the sale.

We have the ‘right’ to go through any bags you bring into the sale.

Birmingham Estate Sales is not responsible for accidents nor is the home owner. You enter at your own risk, and in doing this, we have no liability for injury or damage to your or any items on you.

**Children must remain with parents at ALL times. We will tag those small people, give them a puppy a double espresso and send them on their way!

Bring bags/totes/boxes/newspapers for wrapping —  to help with your items.  We do not provide these.

If we SELL OUT of items before end of sale time, we will close the sale down early.

We APPRECIATE our customers – and thank you for coming to our estate sales!

Please note – owners may remove items that were originally to be part of the sale for whatever reason.  We apologize if this happens.  We know you come for certain items.  We try our best to make sure we are as accurate as possible with our photos and advertising.

The term ‘Woot’ is a happy word.  And used frequently in our ads.  Because we can.

Campfire Girls, Blue Jays of Alabama and the Spring Migration at Dauphin Island

Campfire Girls, Blue Jays of Alabama and the Spring Migration at Dauphin Island

cp5One of our favorite customers  (yes….we do have favorites!) and I were chatting as she checked out from a recent sale.   Debbie always has some great stories — very smart with a sense of sharing history without making you yawn.  I’m always captivated by her stories.  I was gleefully talking about the nearby gaggle of geese and how I love their little webbed feet.  A good goose walk is all the rage you know.

Somehow we got on the story of the Blue Jays, Campfire girls and then saving the blue jays in Alabama when the state sprayed DDT and almost killed the entire Blue Jay population in the 60s.  Holy snap!!  Oh!  She found a vintage book about Camp Fire Girls.  THATS how it all began.  Well..that and the geese.

I’m an Atlanta native (don’t hate!) and do not recall anything about camp fire girls.  Born on the 4th of July in 1965 we had Brownies and Girls Scouts both of which I completely loved.   The uniforms were awesome.  Tassels that go around the top of your socks.  Sashes to proudly display your badges.  And then then camping! Oh yes….  pure heaven.  I would have completely LIVED in my camp fire girl uniform if we had the option to join the camp fire girls.

I learned that Debbie’s childhood friend’s grandmother was the actual person who saved the blue jays in Alabama and brought the population back! Thank you sweet grandmother!!!  I was trying to scribble down notes when the idea about sharing this on our website came to me.  I love epiphanies.  I believe she said Trish Oden was her friend who was a year older than Debbie.  they were the 2nd group of Blue Jays which is the younger group of girls for the Camp Fire girls.  I’ve been searching google for vintage photos and will think about this for months now.  How I missed out on being able to wear an Indian girl uniform.  Just darn.  It’s never too late.

THEN…. she shared with me the Spring and Fall migration on Dauphin Island.  I’m all about birding —  the Alabama Ornithology Society  hosts these events and gives great information on being there for the migrations.  I’m all over this completely!!!  I told W at breakfast about this and we are SOOOOOOO going.  It’s on my calendar now.  Completely.   W (that’s what I call my husband who is a local atty here in the ham) just told me about a man who is a local expert (recently passed away in 2016) Bob Sargent – who caught and banded the Hummingbirds to track their movements.  A funnel of Hummingbirds (google that one) and then the fact that Hummingbirds catch rides on the back of Geese on their migrations!!  I’m in heaven all day thinking about Hummingbirds riding geese.  You can’t make this stuff up folks.  Completely loving this.

The Camp Fire girls is now just Camp Fire Alabama meaning it’s boys and girls now.   And that’s OK.  Although… there’s something wonderful when you’re young to be just around the girls…. at camp….. with a fire…. dreaming and plotting and planning your life away.

Thank you Debbie for such a treasure of a story!!!

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