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Yard sale junkies who oversleep on Saturdays can get a midweek fix every Wednesday at the Mustang Flea Market in Pinellas Park. Each week before the sun is fully up, as many as 50 vendors unfold tables, lay out blankets and unload their stock.
There's plenty of new stuff, but with the old watches, power tools, LPs, costume jewelry, tarnished silver, ladders and arrowheads, Wednesdays at Mustang are the way flea markets and rummage sales used to be. A lot is dusty trash, but discovering one-of-a-kind treasures has put the Wednesday morning market on dealers' calendars for years. Plus, crowds are thinner and parking easier than on the weekends. Mustang (7901 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park; (727) 544-3066) opens at 6 a.m. Wednesdays and clears out in a few hours as the temperature rises. Early birds catch the best deals: A man who bought a metal toy for $10 at one booth before 8 a.m. asked $25 for it a half-hour later.