my best finds, a trailer hitch mount for my Focus $20 at the discount store a cambridge sound works powered woofer and tweeters, made to be portable in a carry bag to make it a portable sound system, now my computer speakers. $25 at goodwill a 9 gallon Honda gas powered compressor $835 new, $235 on clearance at Home Depot, in the box My wife has a knack for hitting yard sales as they are packing up for the day, whole boxes of toys free (they didn't want to put it away again) and a garage full of bikes, we got the first one each child will use as a birthday present, the rest came free from yard sale clean up. my garage looks like a bike store, but I won't have to buy a bike for my kids, until they stop growing.
Went to Garage Sales this weekend. I found a new in box Fantastic Fan Endless Breeze for $5. A Burley bike trailer for $21 kid carrier. A five foot tool box that will be my front toolbox for $40. And lots of other good things. I also have had lots of luck at work finding good things bring home scrap. As a few coworkers have told me I got it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime.
my mattress is made of foam blocks that came from the boxes batteries came in at work, free, with a 1.5" memory foam topper from wally world...if site to store ever comes through, it was supposed to get here on the 26th, now they say the 2nd of aug....
my mattress is made of foam blocks that came from the boxes batteries came in at work, free, with a 1.5" memory foam topper from wally world...if site to store ever comes through, it was supposed to get here on the 26th, now they say the 2nd of aug....
I found a Black & Decker Workmate in front of my neighbors house on trash day. One handle was broken. I made a new one. I like free!!
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I have the Workmate that my Mom bought for my Grandad (both long gone now), back when Black and Decker first brought them out. I remember getting it with her (she didn't know one tool from another, and I loaded it in the back of her '75 Pontiac Astre for her) , but can't quite remember- was it at Montgomery Wards or Sears? It sits unused in my garage (while I cut wood on my tailgate!?!).
bobhenry wrote:Well GoodWill was the place for me today !
Mine had some paint overspray and not quite as pretty as this thumbnail but it was only $7.49
Nice find. The new ones are trash. I'm still using the one I got back in the 70s or 80s (can't remember which) and it's one of the best, most-used tools I have.
Picnic for one, plus seating. It has an insulated bottom cooler section and a front storage area that holds a place setting for one, including a wine glass and a cloth napkin. It was $3.95 at the Salvation Army thrift store. .... D.J.
My last great buy was on clearance at the local Warehouse club- I scored 4 4-quart enameled dutch ovens and 2 12-inch enameled saute pans, all cast iron and all for $36 total. Needless to say, I made some friends or their wives very happy when I gave them to them. I think that they are rebranded Tramontina, (yeah, I know, Chinese CI), but still, they were regularly $38 each
I don't have pics, but I scored a refrigerator w/working freezer for $70 for my church. Just in time to stock up for our future Wednesday night Love Feast before Bible Study . The same folks who sold me the refrig, gave me a toaster over. It works and it will go to the office.
Todah
"It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way." Proverbs 19:2