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WAKE UP.!!! gotta get out early before the good stuff is gone a local church is having their yard sale today. much better than going to individual houses cause there's multiple families selling poo poo in one location looking for some obsolete electronic equipment. maybe some videotapes. retro games are good but hard to find nowadays thanks to scummy resellers tools too. you always see tools at sales. (you have to have tools if you want to be a manly man) a lot of stupid kitchen poo poo, clothes, baby's toys. skip all those tables. then just cruise a couple nearby neighborhoods cause you know you'll come across a few random yard sales too
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Oct 15, 2016 11:44
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i like to go hunt for old silver coins and buy them at face value 
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Oct 15, 2016 11:45
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I don't know anything about coins the Pawn Stars guy said he used to go to yard sales as a kid and buy up all the real silver silverware
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Oct 15, 2016 11:47
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I'm thinking about hitting up a couple yard sales today OP. I am planning on buying anything that I can resell actually.
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Oct 15, 2016 12:06
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I don't know anything about coins it's pretty easy actually. if you're American any pre-1965 dime or greater has silver in them. if you can get them at like 1-5x face value you'll more than double your money
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Oct 15, 2016 12:12
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the secret of yard sales is, people keep all the good stuff inside the house
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Oct 15, 2016 12:38
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Zorodius posted:the secret of yard sales is, people keep all the good stuff inside the house And they are outside the house, selling their garbage. Sneak in their house and get the good poo poo.
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Oct 15, 2016 12:42
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Oct 15, 2016 12:44
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Church yard sale was kind of lame. Last time they had almost the whole parking lot filled with tables and stuff now they just had a small corner. And they didn't have prices on anything they just said "make a donation". Just a way to guilt you into paying too much. The only thing I saw I wanted was a flashlight but I just wanted them to tell me what they wanted not deal with this donation stuff. I did much better just driving around the neighborhood looking for random houses. At once place I was at two guys came up and asked the lady "do you have that Lionel train you advertised?" and she said no, she had just sold it. I guess everyone wants those trains I got a tape of hilarious hockey bloopers  and motherfucking lawn darts ! ! !  they don't make 'em like this anymore. can't wait to get drunk and injure people playing with this
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Oct 15, 2016 13:06
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I'm going to get myself a big bowl of cereal and milk and watch some quality cartoons
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Oct 15, 2016 13:08
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I wish i was out doing this instead of taping a boring work meeting this morning. Working Saturdays sucks. Pro tip? Get a UV flashlight and shine it on glass items. If it glows green its uranium glass and you can prob ebay it for more than you pay for it, since glass poo poo is nearly free at garage sales ajd thrift stores.
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Oct 15, 2016 15:42
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I miss yard sales. Its certainly not a thing in the country I now live in. One of the things I miss most is books. Okay, most of the books you are going to find at yard sales are pretty terrible, not even rising to the level of a guilty pleasure. But I'm in a situation where getting 25 cent Michael Crichton books would be pretty awesome.
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Oct 15, 2016 15:43
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glowing-fish posted:I miss yard sales. Its certainly not a thing in the country I now live in. One time I hit up a yard sale, and this old woman had a bunch of semi-obscure novels and plays - Beckett, Pinter, that kind of thing. I lived in a small town, so this was super bizarre and I asked her if she had anything else like this for sale. She took me to her basement and she had the first editions of all of Hemingways's major novels and all of Fitzgeralds (even the Last Tycoon) and was going to sell them for a buck a piece. But then at the last minute she was like, hmmm, maybe I shouldn't. Well, like, yeah, you should probably definitely not try and unload those to some rear end in a top hat for a dollar each hahahah.
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Oct 15, 2016 15:48
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im going lie quivering in the bath tub instead
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Oct 15, 2016 15:49
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I just took a giant poo poo and now I'm going to drink and cook up some egg and bacon sammys
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Oct 15, 2016 16:49
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Ebay has ruined yard sales.
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Oct 15, 2016 17:57
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Waltzing Along posted:Ebay has ruined yard sales. I would argue that it has enhanced the thrill of going to yard sales
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Oct 15, 2016 17:58
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Ein cooler Typ posted:and motherfucking lawn darts ! ! ! i remember after my grandmother died i was told i could have a couple things from her place and i struggled to think of stuff that wouldn't have just been a clutter, so I just took an old stopwatch I used to play with as a kid (i'm still glad I did, it's sitting on my desk right now) and i remember like a year afterward thinking "...son of a bitch, I should have grabbed the lawn darts!"
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Oct 15, 2016 18:54
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Waltzing Along posted:Ebay has ruined yard sales. i use eBay to sell the coins I find at yard sales behold   bought these today for $19, inspired by the op to go yard saling! Thanks op
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Oct 15, 2016 23:16
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i always walk up with a fistfull of bills in hand and ask if they have any tools or old stereo equipment they never do
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Oct 15, 2016 23:29
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*Strolls by casually, whistling. VHS tape rewinder catches eye* "Oh, oh my god, this is the holey grail."  *opens wallet* "Here just take it, take it all. I have so many unrewound VHS tapes you don't even know omfg" 
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Oct 15, 2016 23:36
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why can't they schedule the yard sales at like 5pm when i'm actually awake
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Oct 15, 2016 23:41
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:*Strolls by casually, whistling. VHS tape rewinder catches eye* You laugh at this, but you could buy one at someones yardsell for probably $1-2 and some of the models sell for $15-20 on Ebay.
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Oct 16, 2016 00:03
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I'm still at work this sucks
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Oct 16, 2016 00:07
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MiracleWhale posted:why can't they schedule the yard sales at like 5pm when i'm actually awake They schedule it at 7am when old people have been awake for a hours and had time to get ready
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Oct 16, 2016 00:09
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between having to wake my rear end up at such an indecent hour and then having to eBay + mail all that stuff I think I'd rather just sleep in cool hobby though found any cheap lego?
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Oct 16, 2016 01:43
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i bought a GAS ampzilla for 50 bucks from an estate sail
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Oct 16, 2016 01:49
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Waltzing Along posted:Ebay has ruined yard sales. bullshit, it's enhanced them, because anybody that tries that hoity poo poo where they price things Actual Value runs off to ebay now rather than bothering with a yard sale where they have to face thirty stinkeyes for every $79 'antique' end table. yard sales are good poo poo protip: go to yard sales in mexican parts of town, lots of tools, lots of furniture
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Oct 16, 2016 01:58
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Jonny 290 posted:bullshit, it's enhanced them, because anybody that tries that hoity poo poo where they price things Actual Value runs off to ebay now rather than bothering with a yard sale where they have to face thirty stinkeyes for every $79 'antique' end table. yard sales are good poo poo protip: go to yard sales in mexican parts of town, lots of tools, lots of furniture Except for all the scumbag resellers who pound on peoples doors at 6 in the morning so they can pick over any good stuff before the general public shows up. Ebay has basically given everyone license to be an rear end in a top hat scalper. It was great when it was new and you could find X item you were looking for. It sucks now when people buy up preorders for everything to jack the prices up on Ebay. gently caress Ebay resellers. Scum of the earth.
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Oct 16, 2016 02:05
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Waltzing Along posted:gently caress Ebay resellers. Scum of the earth. What about Amazon resellers, are we okay?
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I fuckin love yard sales Especially the church sales that a) have hot dogs for sale at 9am and b) have funny mugs for me to buy for a nickel.
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