Every public estate sale we can find across mid-Michigan — pulled from every major listing platform, deduped, sorted by distance. One Wednesday email. Free forever.
Here's the problem. The best estate sale of your week is probably listed on a site you didn't think to check. And here's the part nobody tells you — by Saturday morning, the good stuff is already gone. Most sales open Thursday or Friday at 8 AM, and the regulars know it. If you're showing up Saturday, you're picking through what's left. Most shoppers only check one of the major listing platforms — they're missing most of what's out there, and they're missing it on the wrong day.
Here's what Finders Weekly does for you. Every Wednesday morning, one email lands in your inbox. Inside: every public estate sale we can find across mid-Michigan that weekend, pulled from every major listing platform, deduped, sorted by distance. You read it with your coffee. You pick your Thursday in ninety seconds. You close the tab and go live your life. That's the whole product.
What you'll find: Classifieds by metro · An Editor's Pick (one sale we'd drive to ourselves) · Want Ads (tell us what you're hunting, readers find it for you) · The Tally (one artifact a week from a real sale) · One editor's note. Built by a mid-Michigan estate-sale family with 30 years of walking sales out of Lansing.
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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.
Every estate sale listing has a photo gallery. Most people scroll the first dozen and bounce. Our scout engine reads every one of them — and tells you what's worth being early for.
we don't run the gavel. we just tell you where to be when it drops.
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 Tally artifact. One editor's note. Done before your coffee's cold.
You open it, you read it, you pick your Thursday in ninety seconds. Then you close the tab and go live your life. That's the whole product.
Wednesday, good morning. Every public estate sale we found 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.
Want Ads are casual — what you're hunting this week. The Wishlist is the long chase. The chair you saw at a sale three years ago. The watch your dad had. The specific Pyrex bowl that's missing from your set. Our scout engine reads every photo in every gallery, every weekend, and flags a match the week it surfaces.
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.
Everything you need to stop missing sales.
For dealers, collectors, and serious hunters. Opening soon.
Subscribe to Finder above — we'll let you know first when the Keeper tier opens.
Every subscriber is a ready-to-drive, ready-to-buy hunter in your metro. Get your sale in front of them without paying the dominant listing site's featured-listing fees. Founding operators get grandfathered rates forever — $99/mo for the first twenty, $199/mo after.
Bonus: we show you aggregated Want Ad data for your metro. You'll know exactly what your neighbors are hunting before you price the sale.
Join the operator waitlistYes. The Wednesday list is free forever. Keeper ($5/mo) is optional and unlocks early previews, SMS alerts, and unlimited Want Ads. We make money from operators who want their sales featured, not from you.
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.
One Gen X editor working out of the Lansing bureau — a laptop, a lot of Saturdays at other people's garage sales, and a calm assumption that the work speaks first. The paper is small and honest and built to stay that way.
Newspapers used to do one thing well: they showed up. Wednesday and Sunday, the same routine — 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 there.
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 Tally 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.
No apps. No logins. No scrolling. One paper every Wednesday morning so you're at the curb Thursday — before the regulars empty it out. Every sale worth driving to. Free, forever.
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