Estate Sale Adventures: Whammy Ka-blammy!

Hello, My Friends!~~~

This morning I headed down the road to an estate sale advertised only on Craigslist. It was a small unassumming ad, but intriquing. When I pulled up I saw no other cars except for one in the driveway. The screen door to the house was locked. I arrived 20 minutes before the sale was to start but this very nice lady came to the door and let me in. I had the sale to myself for about 25 minutes! I spent most of the time in the basement where there were boxes and boxes of vintage Christmas ornaments. I filled two large boxes with the ornament boxes and paid for them, leoaded them into my car, and then went back into the house. By this time a couple of other shoppers had arrived.

I ventured upstairs where there was a lot of furniture. In one closet I found a stack of vintage plastic models and a walkie talkie set. I grinned when I saw the walkie talkies as I remembered a Brian Regan routine about what military mind gave them that silly name. It goes a little like this: "Well, I am in the field with this communication device and I'm walking and talking. I'll call it the 'walkie talkie' and this thing with a trigger in my holster, I'll call it my 'whammy ka-blammy'." Well, it sort of went like that. But of you want to see the talented Mr. Regan doing this routine, here is the You Tube

So as I was smiling at the walkie talkies I took the stack of models down from the shelf.

This is what they were:

So instead of the walkie talkies, I got four boxes of "whammy ka-blammies". This is not the usual thing I would get at an estate sale, but Hubby likes old firearms and I thought he might like these. The price was very right and I brought them home. And Hubby said they were nice (never been built and all the parts there), but he didn't think he would build them. So I put them on ebay because sometimes I don't think my etsy shop is the best place for an item for one reason or the other.

So I had a wonderful time at the little Craigslist ad estate sale and brought home a ton of vintage Christmas and a pile of "whammy ka-blammy".~~~XXOO, Beth

Comments

[sweet cottage dreams]

Gotta love those kind of sales, especially when you have the whole house to yourself and you can look at everything and take your time.

Will you be showing us the Christmas finds?
Hope so!

[leslie]

I've never seen or heard of these. Really cute. I love reading about your Estate sale adventures!