Saturday, March 19, 2005
Life is good
Continuing to plug away on The Project, which like all proper projects seems determined to take at LEAST twice as long to complete as first estimated....
Today, being Saturday, was Yard Sale Day, and it handily made up for last week's pathetic single offering, where we acquired 70 cents worth of artificial flowers.
The first five sales were only so-so, and we missed by THIS MUCH a whole box of Breyer horses. :<
The sixth was in a very small town 30 miles away, and we were of two minds whether to even bother. The ad in the paper gave the following directions, "six blocks west on the damn road" and we weren't sure whether the people placing the ad were trying to be funny (that's the road to John Martin DAM, you see) or the idiots at the Lamar Daily Snooze were just living down to their usual standards.
At first we decided we WOULD go, because an auction was scheduled today in the town half-way in between, so it would only cost about $4 more in gas to swoop over and check out sale #6 before the auction started. But then everything took longer than we planned (see opening para of post) and we decided NOT to go.
But upon pre-viewing the auction goods laid out on display, we decided there was nothing up for sale that we wanted badly enough to make standing around in a cold breeze for 6-8 hours seem like a fair deal. Nothing we could afford, anyway. (Mike REEEEAALLY liked the windmill head.)
So since we were already close, we went ahead to the sale on the dam(n) road. And...SCORE! We went home with 4 boxes of books at a dime each and a big box of videos at a quarter each!
Oh, and yesterday we saw a box of books sitting next to a trash dumpster, which the trash crew had apparently disdained to haul away. Since the Friends of the Library sale is coming up, we thought we might as well grab those books up, because even if they weren't salable on line, someone might give the library 50 cents each for a couple of them. And it was a good thought, because most of them WERE very common. Except for the $25 one on societal persecutions between 950-1250!
It's a lot of hard work, but this is such a FUN way to earn a living!
Today, being Saturday, was Yard Sale Day, and it handily made up for last week's pathetic single offering, where we acquired 70 cents worth of artificial flowers.
The first five sales were only so-so, and we missed by THIS MUCH a whole box of Breyer horses. :<
The sixth was in a very small town 30 miles away, and we were of two minds whether to even bother. The ad in the paper gave the following directions, "six blocks west on the damn road" and we weren't sure whether the people placing the ad were trying to be funny (that's the road to John Martin DAM, you see) or the idiots at the Lamar Daily Snooze were just living down to their usual standards.
At first we decided we WOULD go, because an auction was scheduled today in the town half-way in between, so it would only cost about $4 more in gas to swoop over and check out sale #6 before the auction started. But then everything took longer than we planned (see opening para of post) and we decided NOT to go.
But upon pre-viewing the auction goods laid out on display, we decided there was nothing up for sale that we wanted badly enough to make standing around in a cold breeze for 6-8 hours seem like a fair deal. Nothing we could afford, anyway. (Mike REEEEAALLY liked the windmill head.)
So since we were already close, we went ahead to the sale on the dam(n) road. And...SCORE! We went home with 4 boxes of books at a dime each and a big box of videos at a quarter each!
Oh, and yesterday we saw a box of books sitting next to a trash dumpster, which the trash crew had apparently disdained to haul away. Since the Friends of the Library sale is coming up, we thought we might as well grab those books up, because even if they weren't salable on line, someone might give the library 50 cents each for a couple of them. And it was a good thought, because most of them WERE very common. Except for the $25 one on societal persecutions between 950-1250!
It's a lot of hard work, but this is such a FUN way to earn a living!
Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
