• 7 (More) Stops not to miss on the Route 127 Yard Sale – Kentucky and Tennessee Day 2

    We are on the road shopping the Route 127 Yard Sale. This week-long collection of yard sales stretched nearly 1,000 miles from Michigan to Alabama. Check out my earlier post here for more tips for getting the most out of the Route 127 Sale. Each year I shop the sale for two days covering most of Kentucky and Tennessee. For more on how the first day went this year, check out Day 1 here. Here are some of my favorite stops from Day 2. I’ve been visiting these for years and they haven’t let me down. So, at the end of Day 1 we pulled into Baymont Inn & Suites…

  • Road Trip Junkin’ — 6 Tips for a Successful Route 127 Sale

    We are three weeks away from one of my FAVORITE weekends of the year! What is it? It’s the Route 127 sale!!! A collection of yard sales, antique vendors, junk sellers that runs all the way from Gadsen, Alabama up to Michigan, for the most part on Route 127. Billed as “The World’s Longest Yard Sale,” this nearly 700-mile long event is held annually the first weekend in August. This will be my sixth trip on the sale. I’ve done it by myself a couple of times and I even got my husband, Chris, to go along one year (I don’t know why, but once was enough for him).  The…