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hillbille

wife wanted me to put up few signs at end of street for our yard sale tomorrow. got home and decided I had an old extension ladder in building and at my age/health wasn't gonna use again, have had it for sale on and off on her facebook thing for month or so, I figured I would bring it down to the garage and put it in the sale tomorrow. Had it on face book for $50 for last month or so. this guy pulls up out front of house and asks if we are the ones having a sale tomorrow, I said yes but the wife hasn't priced anything yet to come back in the morning, he ask if the ladder was for sale. Sort of irked me he was there day early so I said yes $75, he looked it over and said he would give me $50, I said no, someone will give me $75 or I will hang it back on the wall, he pulls out his wallet and hands me $75!! lotta strange people out there.......

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  • diver-rig

    I don't invite complete strangers onto my property to dig through my stuff.


    Fellas liable to take a trip to the ER if I catch them in the act...

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  • notnow

    There's a patch town near us that has a whole town yard sale. It's on one long straight stretch of road. People come from far away to this. Maryland and West Virginia. This is in SW Pa. My daughters and their friends take stuff down to sell. Mostly kids clothes and household items. My older daughter hung clothes on hangers and sold it for a dollar a hanger and made $ 200. I sent some things down with them and sold it all. $100 for me. Anything firearm or hunting related sold right now. I had 12 empty 30-378 for $10, 30 rounds of 30-06 for $5. Stuff like that. Sold immediately. That seems to be the thing around here. Whole community yard sales that is. Myself, I don't go very often any more. I did for a while and brought home too much stuff. One thing I'll say is a good idea to get at flea markets is hardware. Nails, screws bolts .they're always cheaper than the stores and they've gone way up recently.

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  • B17-P51
    notnow: 33231748410395/comments/33231821097371

    There's a patch town near us that has a whole town yard sale. It's on one long straight stretch of road. People come from far away to this. Maryland and West Virginia. This is in SW Pa. My daughters and their friends take stuff down to sell. Mostly kids clothes and household items. My older daughter hung clothes on hangers and sold it for a dollar a hanger and made $ 200. I sent some things down with them and sold it all. $100 for me. Anything firearm or hunting related sold right now. I had 12 empty 30-378 for $10, 30 rounds of 30-06 for $5. Stuff like that. Sold immediately. That seems to be the thing around here. Whole community yard sales that is. Myself, I don't go very often any more. I did for a while and brought home too much stuff. One thing I'll say is a good idea to get at flea markets is hardware. Nails, screws bolts .they're always cheaper than the stores and they've gone way up recently.

    As soon as you said "patch" I knew where you were from!

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