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01-02-2024, 1:23pm | #1 | ||||||
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Has anyone here struck a goldmine garage saling?
Made a great find/buy at a garage sale, flea market, auction, dipsty dumpster or whatever. Ever found hidden treasure?
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Found this old Milwaukee grinder for $25 at one. Lady just wanted it out of her garage. Weighs a ton. Switch was missing and somebody had rigged up an extension cord to make it work. I installed a new switch and wired it correctly and it works just fine now. Heavy stand.
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Let me check with my father in law….his basement is PACKED full of useless garage sale ‘gold finds’.
When he moves to a home or passes I swear we’re renting a full size roll off dumpster for all his shit and it’s all going straight in there…. |
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I would move it up to the front lawn and have a Big One Day Sale. I'll bet marketed correctly you could make some bucks.
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I found $20.00 in the dryer a time or two. Does that count?
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As a kid in 1970, an old guy down the street was moving and had a dumpster full of furniture, etc. In a desk I found some antique mechanical pencils, one engraved silver from 1915 that's a work of art and three or four gold-filled ones from the early 1920's. That got me started on fountain pen collecting. I found a $400+ Parker 'Big Red' Duofold at a thrift shot for $5 once. It's from about 1925. A friend recently bought a bottle full of change at a local garage sale for $3. It had $38 inside.
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Some of my finds thrift shopping include
Seiko 5 automatic watch ($5, list price $475), fancy Honeywell humidifier ($4, list $120), new Cuisinart Food Processor, ranked best by ATK ($10, list $250), new Instant Pot ($10, list $130), new Gourmia foodstation smokeless grill ($20, list $130), a few framed signed art prints worth a few hundred, a few glass vases worth good money to the right buyer, a few all-clad pans that I sent in and got brand new replacements for, Corsair rgb gaming keyboard ($4, list $120) Herman Miller Mirra office chair ($8, list $1200), HON Ignition office chair ($8, list $1400) |
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I found tens of thousands of ballots with Trump's name on them
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Was never my thing but the wife couldn't pass one up.
Back in the mid-80's she'd bring me bags full of paperback science fiction books and collections of short stories bought for 10 cents apiece practically every weekend. That went on for a couple years. Had several hundred of them written over a time span of the previous 30 years. Some real jewels in there... Asimov, Heinlein, Zelazny... Name the author, I probably had it. Packed them all into a huge footlocker after reading (I'd read a book in a day back then). Sent the trunk home with my daughter a few years ago for five of my grandkids to read. I still remember loading that thing in the back of her car, that was a job and a half |
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I owned a scrap metal business years ago. I was picking through the junk one day and found a silver choker style necklace I had bought in some aluminum.
Probably paid around .02 for it. Made by Faget Mignon in New Orleans. I think she's still alive. I sent it to them to have it professionally cleaned and appraised. Current value......3K When I retired, I took 16 lbs silver and a little over a pound of gold home with me. |
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