Junk is My Life

Junk is My Life Antique dealer, treasure hunter and curator of vintage goods!

Junk Is My Life is about American roadside adventures in vintage—the back roads, garage sales, estate sales, auctions and unexpected places where the good stuff is still waiting to be found.

My booth at Pipe Creek Mercantile is ready for the Fall Market! September 4-6 in Peru, Indiana! The store is looking fan...
09/01/2026

My booth at Pipe Creek Mercantile is ready for the Fall Market! September 4-6 in Peru, Indiana! The store is looking fantastic! Come visit the store and find a treasure!

Instead of my full auction haul, I’m just sharing all the treasure I found in one of my box lots. Yes, all of this goodn...
08/29/2026

Instead of my full auction haul, I’m just sharing all the treasure I found in one of my box lots. Yes, all of this goodness came all together in ONE box! It was my first purchase of the day—and it was a good one! I mean, the McCoy green sunrise bowl was worth the trip to Walkerton! And the other reason I’m only showing part of my haul is the rest of it is still in the Jeep, which is at the tire place, because I picked up a piece of metal in my tire by parking in the field at the auction… 😕 How was YOUR day? Gotta take the good with the bad.

Friday’s garage sale haul deserves its own post—it’s pretty darn good! 99% of this was from ONE sale! When you find a ho...
08/29/2026

Friday’s garage sale haul deserves its own post—it’s pretty darn good! 99% of this was from ONE sale! When you find a honey hole, you just pile it up! With any luck, I’ll have an auction haul tomorrow!

You’re getting two garage sale hauls this week because Thursday’s haul has some good stuff but buckle up for Friday’s ha...
08/29/2026

You’re getting two garage sale hauls this week because Thursday’s haul has some good stuff but buckle up for Friday’s haul (next post!). As always, if you see something you like, I do ship!

I kind of hate that we have to add seasonal items so far before the actual season, but here I am—adding a little fall co...
08/28/2026

I kind of hate that we have to add seasonal items so far before the actual season, but here I am—adding a little fall color to my booth at Dutch Lady Antiques, including my new Foraging Badges Stickers!

Added a few things to my ONLINE store! Check it out at Junkismylife.com.
08/27/2026

Added a few things to my ONLINE store! Check it out at Junkismylife.com.

WELL. THIS HAS ESCALATED.I’ve decided casually buying old junk for decades was not enough.We need credentials. Remember ...
08/25/2026

WELL. THIS HAS ESCALATED.

I’ve decided casually buying old junk for decades was not enough.

We need credentials. Remember scouting badges? Being recognized for accomplishments? It’s time.

Introducing the first official Junk Is My Life Foraging Badges — for those of us who have stopped pretending this is a hobby and are ready to be formally recognized for our highly specialized vintage-related nonsense.

Are you a Crock Collector who can spot cobalt decoration from three booths away?

A Primitive Purist who sees an old dry cupboard and immediately starts rearranging furniture in your head?

A Butter Pat Stacker who absolutely does NOT need another tiny dish but somehow owns 47 of them?

Perhaps you’re a Wooden Bowl Enthusiast, helpless against 150 years of patina and questionable sanitation.

Maybe you’re a Vintage Quilt Connoisseur who will unfold an entire quilt in a stranger’s driveway at 6:43 a.m. to inspect the stitching.

A Barn Sale Explorer willing to follow a crooked cardboard sign down a gravel road with absolutely no evidence anything good awaits you?

Or—and I say this with love—a complete Basket Case.
FINALLY.

YOUR PEOPLE HAVE FOUND YOU.

The first seven Junk Is My Life Foraging Badges have officially been released as stickers.

Buy the one that accurately diagnoses your particular form of vintage madness...

OR COLLECT THE ENTIRE SET LIKE THE COMPLETELY RATIONAL, SELF-CONTROLLED ADULT WE BOTH KNOW YOU ARE.

And before anyone asks:
Yes, there will be more.
No, this will probably not remain under control.
And yes, I am already thinking about what you people need to be certified in next.

Available now at junkismylife.com.

Take the back road.
Find the good junk.
Collect the evidence.

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