imple Vegetarian | First yard sale of the season

This morning, whilst out running errands on the town, we befell upon a sign guidance us towards a big transferring sale more than one blocks away. It's a piece early but for backyard profits, specially with the temperature spherical 40 tiers and a brisk wind blowing, but it's our policy in no manner to bypass one via, so we walked the couple of blocks and checked it out. It became out to be more often than now not kids' toys and clothes, the type of stuff we commonly bypass by means of after a cursory look?However we took the time to test out everything, and an remarkable trouble we did, due to the truth we unearthed a few hidden treasures priced at manner, way beneath their particular fee.

The ladies net hosting the sale truely understood the vital aspect to going for walks a successful outdoor sale: price to promote. After all, the point of getting a backyard sale isn't to get returned as a whole lot of your money as possible; in case you want to do this, you sell character devices through the need commercials, or take them to a provider who is conscious their charge. The point of a yard sale is to dump as heaps stuff as feasible, so those ladies declared their purpose to be

1. A vintage Tonka Big Dump truck from the 1980s, made of actual steel (none of this flimsy plastic they use nowadays). This is an item you can no longer buy new, because they just don't make them like that anymore—but Brian found similar ones on eBay priced between $13 and $60. The lowest price is a starting bid, so it will probably sell for more in the end; the highest is marked "or best offer," so it will probably go for less. The two marked "Buy it Now" are $35 and $40, so that's probably the best estimate of what this thing is really worth today.
2. A pair of black women's pants, Merona brand, sold at Target. This particular style seems no longer to be available, but other Merona pants in comparable styles are selling for $20 to $30. Unfortunately, there was no way to try these on at the sale, and when I got them home I found that, while they're wearable, they're not exactly flattering on me—and they don't have pockets, which is a pet peeve of mine. So they probably won't be worn much, but for a buck, it was certainly worth the risk. They can still serve as an emergency laundry-day backup.
3. An extra-long extension cord, which is a must for working in the yard. (All our power tools, like the hedge trimmer and the string trimmer, are electric-powered, because we don't want to deal with the hassle, mess, smell, and emissions of gasoline.) These long cords go for anywhere from $13 to a whopping $133 at Home Depot, so we saved at least $12 with this purchase.

So, just by going a few blocks out of our way, we saved nearly 50 bucks (not counting the pants, since that's an item I probably wouldn't have bought in a store). The moral of the story: never pass up a yard sale sign, not even if it's cold out.