We check every major listing platform out there. Dedupe the overlap. Sort by distance. Print it as a paper. You read one thing Wednesday morning.
The best sale of your weekend is probably listed on a site you didn't think to check. That's the whole problem. Four platforms, each with its own search, its own map, its own patchwork coverage. A Lansing operator posts on one. An Ann Arbor operator posts on another. A Grand Rapids franchise posts on its own network. You pick one, you drive, you find out Sunday that the good one was four miles from your house.
Finders Weekly is the paper that points at all of them. Wednesday morning, one email. Classifieds (every sale, by metro), Want Ads (post what you're hunting — readers and operators see it every week), The Morgue (one artifact a week from somebody's life), and an Editor's Note. Built because checking four websites every Wednesday isn't a weekend plan.
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Issue Nº 1 lands Wednesday morning from weekly@findersweekly.com. Watch for it.
We audited every major mid-Michigan platform this week. Here's what the survey found.
We do the checking. You read one email.
Same structure every week. You'll know where to find what you came for.
Live count from this weekend's scrape — local sales plus everything inside drive-circle range. We're indexing a fraction of the full market today; numbers grow weekly as we wire more listing platforms in.
Masthead up top. Headline find. Three sections for what's actually at the sales. The full classifieds list by metro. A Morgue artifact. One editor's note. Done before your coffee's cold.
You open it, you read it, you pick your Saturday in ninety seconds. Then you close the tab and go live your life. That's the whole product.
Wednesday, good morning. Every estate sale within 25 miles of 48933 this weekend. The ones we'd drive to are up top.
Tell the paper what you're hunting. Every Wednesday we print the week's want ads — readers and operators see every one.
Beta readers, early subscribers, Rita's friends — you're the first people in the room. Tell us what missed, what broke, what we should add. No length limit. No wrong answers.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 7:00 AM Eastern. Every Wednesday at 7am after that. You can set your watch.
Every major listing platform we can find — including the national franchise networks. Public listings only. We don't scrape private groups. We don't touch Facebook Marketplace. We're a reference layer, not a marketplace.
They show you their inventory. We show you everybody's inventory, deduped, in one email, sorted by where you actually live. You still click through to the operator's original listing. We take no commission, run no sales, take no custody.
One paper a week. Wednesday at 7am. That's it. No drip campaigns. No "last chance" emails. No "we noticed you haven't opened." One email, then we go away.
One recurring column. One artifact from that week's sales, one photo, one line. A Rolodex full of names in pencil. An unopened VCR, still in the box from 1994. A labeled drawer of somebody's system. If you've ever been to an estate sale you know why this column is here.
Subscribe anyway. We add bureaus in the order waitlists fill. Every new ZIP that comes through moves its metro up. Tell us where you hunt — we'll build that bureau next.
Matt "Bots" Botsford, one Gen X editor with a laptop and a lot of Saturdays at other people's garage sales. The paper is small and honest and built to stay that way.
Newspapers used to do one thing well: they showed up. Wednesday paper, Sunday paper, crossword, classifieds, comics, obits. You read it with coffee. You closed it. You went on with your day. Nobody felt stalked by it. Nobody felt lectured by it. It was just your paper.
That ritual's mostly gone, and the people trying to sell it back keep making it loud, paywalled, or both. Estate sales never got a paper in the first place — they live scattered across four websites nobody has time to check. This is the paper for them.
Finders Weekly is small, honest, and built to stay that way. Classifieds for what's being sold. Want Ads for what you're hunting. The Morgue for what somebody spent a lifetime keeping. An editor's note when there's something worth saying. One email, Wednesday morning, free forever. Every generation is welcome at the garage sale.
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