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SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 2, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 3 PRAIRIE GROVE Another's Treasure Beauty in eye of beholder at fall Junk Ranch LARA JO HIGHTOWER NWA Democrat-Gazette A n auction was Junk Ranch founder Amy Daniels' gateway drug into serious junking. She can't remember what inspired the trip out to a farm sale with her sister Holly, but once she was there, she was hooked. "I think I just learned about them, that there were good deals, and it was something I had never done, so I thought, 'Let's go do this,'" she remembers. "I think the first thing I bought at an auction was a pretty ratty quilt." Flea markets and tag, estate and yard sale addiction soon followed. "I remember the first time I learned about haggling," she says, laughing. "One of the first things that I haggled on was a $1 item. I look back at that now and think: 'I would have run me off!' But I did get it for 50 cents." Daniels' parents-in-law owned an antique store, so it didn't seem odd when Daniels started moving in the direction of selling as well as buying. "I just kept going, and just like everybody else, you start sifting out things that you're not interested in, or you buy things that you get by the boxful, and then you're like, 'What am I going to do with all of this?'" she says. "So I had a tent sale at my sister's house: We set up a big tent, rented a bunch of tables — it was kind of crazy. I think we maybe broke even." That tent sale may have been the birth of the idea that would eventually become the Junk Ranch. Eight years ago, Daniels tried a tent sale on a bigger scale at the Viney Grove Community Building in Prairie Grove, and the huge positive Friday's entry fee to the Junk Ranch is $10, versus $5 for Saturday; many people pay to shop on Friday to make sure they don't miss anything they might have seen a Junk Ranch vendor post on social media. "There's nothing to see someone bum-rushing the gate, on a mission," says the Junk Ranch's Amy Daniels of the show's enthusiastic shoppers. "You can tell when people are almost flat-out running, trying to get somewhere." (Courtesy Photo/Lara Jo Hightower) FAQ The Junk Ranch WHEN — 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Oct. 1; 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Oct. 2 WHERE — 11195 Centerpoint Church Road, Prairie Grove COST — $5-$10 INFO — thejunk- ranch.net See Junk Page 4