Craigslist and Garage sale scores!

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by tabs

Ohhh geeez do I have to...you are going to make me aren't you?

Couple of weeks ago A TEAC R2000 reel to reel tape recorder $14.00. Works

Last week a pair of Danner Fort Lewis insulated boots 9.00, a pair of David Eden Croc slip ones for 12.00. A pair of Santoni oxfords 14.00.

Set of Titleist 690mb irons 16.80

Just the other day I was wondering how those wedding dresses you bought worked out. (Winking smiley face thing goes here).

[cmccuist]

I bought this freezer at an on-line auction. I bid $75 and that's what it sold for. After looking up what it is, turns out it's a freezer that gets lab specimens down to -40 deg! Sells new from Thermo Scientific for $4,500. It's brand new, but has a dent in one corner and was returned.

Not sure what I need to cool to -40, but there it is!

[URY914]

Originally Posted by tabs

That is because you are RICH and SPOILED. If you truly needed a pair of shoes you wouldn't care if you had to pry them off the cold dead feet of a Leper. You are truly a poster boy for how America got itself into the mess that it is in.*

My Dad could certainly afford to buy a pair of Bally shoes, but it was only in the last couple of years of his life that he broke down and spent the money to buy a pair ON SALE. Yet for what he spent on one pair of Bally's back in the mid 80's I have 15 pairs of largely NEW Ballys.

If he knew that he could find Bally's in a Thrift or at a yard sale for a couple of bucks he would not be adverse to purchasing them. As a matter of fact a lot of people who live in toney neighborhoods buy used shoes... Figure it out, you buy a pair of $1200 Versace ankle boots for $12...you still have $1188 left in your pocket and nobody knows that you bought them in a Thrift for $12 when you are at a posh soiree in your toney hood. All that the people think when they see you is that guy must be really rich? And you are cause you still have that $1188 (and all the other $1188's) in yer pocket.

What it comes down to is that you gots the goods which you paid little for and would otherwise have had to depleted your bank account (at least a bit) to buy. Which means that you are all that much more rich, cause you still have the dinero in your pocket. Until you grasp that concept you ain't never truly gona be rich...cause the trick in staying rich is in how to keep it and also get what you want.


*A lot of old timers would not be adverse to wearing used shoes for themselves, but for their kids they would never impose that upon them...they wanted to give their kids what they never had (and thought they would be happy)..In that America created generations of spoiled and entitled people. "I WON'T wear someone else's stinky old shoes, I can AFFORD NEW ONES, I am a rich and prosperous American."

Americans lost sight of the fact that conspicuous consumption does not lead to happiness nor contentment. My parents Generation that grew up with out, felt as kids that if they only had that new pair of shoes they would be happy. They then gave their children new everything including shoes, thinking that would make their kids happy campers. It doesn't quite work that way, but what it has led to are generations of Americans chasing happiness through material acquisition.

I've been officially schooled by the great Tabs! What an A-hole you are. You know NOTHING about me.

[Ayles]

Just scored a huge lot of vintage license plates and a pair of very special personalized/vanity Porsche related plates last registered in Washington circa 1977.

I didn't realize there was such an active market for them until poking around on Ebay.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by cmccuist

I bought this freezer at an on-line auction. I bid $75 and that's what it sold for. After looking up what it is, turns out it's a freezer that gets lab specimens down to -40 deg! Sells new from Thermo Scientific for $4,500. It's brand new, but has a dent in one corner and was returned.

Not sure what I need to cool to -40, but there it is!

Forward to :30

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by cmccuist

I bought this freezer at an on-line auction. I bid $75 and that's what it sold for. After looking up what it is, turns out it's a freezer that gets lab specimens down to -40 deg! Sells new from Thermo Scientific for $4,500. It's brand new, but has a dent in one corner and was returned.

Not sure what I need to cool to -40, but there it is!

It would be fun to experiment with figuring out how long it takes to make a can of beer go from room temp to 33 degrees.

[T77911S]

that's a GREAT sounding amp.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by URY914

I've been officially schooled by the great Tabs! What an A-hole you are. You know NOTHING about me.

Your response ^^^ just reaffirms my thinking and makes it become even more negative. Now I can add less than intelligent to the list... a veritable poster boy for promoting remedial education....with a warning label across the front that says..."DO YOU WANT TO GROW UP TO BE LIKE THIS"

[billybek]

Originally Posted by T77911S

that's a GREAT sounding amp.

I bet it goes to 11. You know, when you need that extra little push over the cliff....

Cool (pun intended) find!

[Nathans_Dad]

Bought an entire collection of X-Wing Miniatures ships off Craigslist for $400, sold them off piece by piece on eBay for around $1200.

[87911jon]

Scored this for $1800, drives like a dream. Except for cracked dash, interior is a 9.5. Auto shifts amazingly smoothly. Even windshield squirters work! Bought it as a parts car for my M5 restoration, but too nice to cut up, so a friend is buying it for his daughter.

[Baz]

Our local landfill (operated by the county) has an area where household chemicals can be dropped off and they put them on shelves and are available for the taking. I always check it out when I'm there unloading my landscape trailer.

Today picked up some useful stuff....2 full gallons of sealer, liquid iron, a quart of oil, some 2 cycle oil, marine polish (full bottle), various insecticides, some paint, Murphy's soap, snail pellets, and a few other things.....

[E38Driver]

Just scored this for 3500 dollars. Snap On list is 13,700.

Dave

[john walker's workshop]

I got the same one in blue with a stainless top for $3500, delivered, off craigslist last year. Matches my old one. might as well have 2 for that price.

[VincentVega]

Originally Posted by 87911jon

Scored this for $1800, drives like a dream. Except for cracked dash, interior is a 9.5. Auto shifts amazingly smoothly. Even windshield squirters work! Bought it as a parts car for my M5 restoration, but too nice to cut up, so a friend is buying it for his daughter.

Nice get! Not many that arent crusty around here. Looks great.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by E38Driver

Just scored this for 3500 dollars. Snap On list is 13,700.

Dave

Some Snap-On dealer put his kids through college over selling these boxes, and tools. I understand that they are mechanic's grade, but $13,700 for a freaking tool box ?

[john walker's workshop]

You can get them for around $8K if you have a decent dealer. Still too damn much.

[VincentVega]

No kidding but a nice box.

I need to upgrade but finding what I want for even close to the $$ I want to spend is next to impossible.

[tabs]

NEW FIND ALERT

Yesterday a Vitamix 5000 blender in a Thrift for NOTHING...had a coupon to cover the cost...even got a pair of shoe trees thrown in...

[cmccuist]

Found this 5 gallon pure copper moonshine still at the dumpster. Posted it on eBay and it's already up to $210. Why would somebody throw this out? They go for about $500 new.