by Ron Hall
Member since:
August 31, 2005

Would You Buy This or Not? (for June 11th, 2007 - part 2)

June 10, 2007 01:56 PM UTC (Updated: June 10, 2007 02:00 PM UTC)
views: 0 | comments: 31

So, if we didn't like those things in Part 1, what is it we did like?

 

Find of the day

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Mint Cosmo's Factory (and other records)

price - $1

sold

The owner says she belonged to a record club and didn't even play some of the ones she got.  I put on Ramble Tamble and cranked it.

As it turns out, I already have a crisp Cosmo's in my collection, which I'll now sell.  My American Woman was a bit worn though.  Now I have a flawless copy.

I know someone will want the Three Dog Night record.  The Elvis is a Reader's Digest release (and I like the quality of RD vinyl).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other things we liked:

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Table

price - $15

no sale

Alas, we have no room for another table. Looks to be 1950s. The wood is hardly scratched. The original casters all roll well, and it has the leaves.

She asked if I'd like to clear it off to get a better picture, and I told her she'll be clearing it off soon enough.  No need to do it twice.

 

 

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Earrings

price - free

sold

This is just a sampling.  The owner took a shine to Janie (no surprise there).   I like the subversive upside down globes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Three new mini-flashlights

price - 75 cents

sold

Oops.  One didn't work.  The next one broke when I was screwing it back together, and the third works if you have the threads of the battery port turned just right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Women's clothes

price - $2.50 for all

sold

I wouldn't wear them, but I can appreciate they were all in great shape and will go well with other things.  As Janie said, "They're my price."

 

 

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Books

$3.00 (for all including a couple not shown)

sold

The baseball books will appeal to someone. We'll also sell the "book of tea".  The Tao is in Japanese and English.  We may just keep the dictionary of American Sign language book.  I have a nice collection of language books, and it would fit in nicely.

 

 

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Foster's Sealfast quart jar

price - 50 cents

sold

I have a ton of jars, but Foster's is a bit rarer than Ball or Atlas.  There's no hint of rust on the bale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Unused brass valve

price - 50 cents

sold

My mom's place needs almost all of its plumbing replaced, so I'll probably use this out in Colorado eventually.  If not, we plan on starting to have yard sales out there with some of our Minnesota finds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Belt

price - $1

sold

A bit wide for the city.  It goes to Colorado where it will look just right.

 

 

 

 

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Sheet aluminum (1.5 pounds)

price - 35 cents

sold

This includes the first piece I've bought with teflon on it.  If the scrap yard says that's no problem, I'll start buying a lot more of these pans where the non-stick stuff is scratched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Remodeling scrap (10.5 pounds of sheet aluminum)

price - free

Every now and then people in our building remodel, and this time there was the frame from a shower door and verticle blind bracket.  It's not much money, but my time in handling will be about 5 minutes - the hourly wage works for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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See also Part 1, showing the things we did not buy (or weren't impressed with).

Comments: 31

Shannon W Jun 10, 2007, 2:43pm UTC
Cute earrings and the price was just right ;)
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 2:55pm UTC
Janie has quite a collection going, and these are a credit to it, Shannon.
Sonia M. Jun 10, 2007, 3:05pm UTC
I would have bought the Foster's Sealfast quart jar even if I had had to pay more than .50 cents!! I collect them whenever I see them....also collect the Ball and Atlas as long as they have the glass lid and clamp.

Congrats to Janie on the earrings and clothing!
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 3:18pm UTC
The bale jars are still rather plentiful and cheap, but I see them mixed in with others priced $5, so I think we're in a transition time and a few years from now the 50 cent and 25 cent jars will be harder to come by. So I'm stocking up, Sonia!
Janie Hall Jun 10, 2007, 3:30pm UTC
i love the summers!
Sue * Jun 10, 2007, 3:40pm UTC
Gotta love CCR...that album would have been mine!
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 4:00pm UTC
Janie, you know it. Someday we'll winter in Phoenix (I'm proposing) so we'd never have to stop.

Sue, I go through a lot of old records, and Creedence gets the award for most worn out. People played them over and over and over. John Fogerty was that good a songwriter. He writes okay songs now, but that youthful burst of creativity seems to have run its course. It's rare when I find one in decent condition, and an unplayed copy is unheard of. Hence my choice for find of the week.
♯ ♪ Jun 10, 2007, 4:36pm UTC
I would have fought you for the records. You can barely find any good ones at garage sales. The best I've found are at Amoeba Records in San Francisco.
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 4:47pm UTC
Joanne, there was a whole crate of barely-played records, but unfortunately many were 70s and 80s country pop - not even real country by my reckoning. One fun thing - her kid was upstairs playing his guitar with the amp blaring out over the hood. He was playing smoke on the water, over and over and over (except he didn't know the chorus).
Dalal A. Jun 10, 2007, 5:11pm UTC
Nice post! Thank you:) Why would you want to buy more of the aluminum sheets? For cooking they are not very healthy as it increases aluminum content of foods and this has been linked to AD and other neurological disorders. Don't let me start about teflon....IIf you heat a teflon pan with a pet bird indoor, the bird would die from the toxic fumes.
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 5:41pm UTC
Dalal, we are of one mind here. I regard aluminum cooking vessels as evil. I buy them at yard sales and recycle them at the scrap yard. This is also what I do with all of the other aluminum, brass and copper items I find at sales. If it's ugly and worth more as scrap than they are charging, it's outa here.
Jennifer Hodge Jun 10, 2007, 6:18pm UTC
Ron, I love the belt and think that actually at this point, anything goes in terms of belt width. My dad used to make his own brass buckles in the 70s and cut the leather to make belts for the family. I wish I still had those belt buckles.
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 6:31pm UTC
Thank you, Jennifer. Sometimes I'll run across something of my dad's. They are special things.

I find good belts very hard to find at yard sales, but I keep looking. They are one of those things that are far too expensive for what they are, unless of course they're vintage homemade items.
Ms. Meacham: Money Maven Jun 10, 2007, 7:00pm UTC
Interesting finds for sure.
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 7:17pm UTC
Thank you, Jennifer. I don't mean to say this week wasn't okay, but some of the earlier weeks this season were really spectacular.
Corina C. Jun 10, 2007, 7:34pm UTC
I would have grabbed the jar and I love those earrings! I collect "celestial" stuff and these would fit right in, including the style! What a lucky lady.
Laura C. Jun 10, 2007, 7:37pm UTC
so, what's the "book of tea"? - if it's not the one I already have, I'd be interested!
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 8:01pm UTC
I think you'd have to have met the earring woman at the sale, Corina, when I say the general theme of everything she had was, "trippy".

Laura, this book of tea is written by Okakura Kakuzo in 1906, and this is a 1958 translation. It doesn't seem to be strictly about tea, but more about Eastern philosophy.
Jennifer S. Jun 10, 2007, 8:47pm UTC
Those earrings are great! And what a wonderful price. The records were a great find too!
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 8:51pm UTC
Yes, Jennifer, thanks. Janie and I both came away with something worthwhile.
Michelle W. Jun 10, 2007, 10:33pm UTC
You got some great buys! I love the jar and would have loved to have had that table! It would have gone into my basement for the time being, but I still would have wanted it.
Ron Hall Jun 10, 2007, 11:14pm UTC
Michelle, I think the table might have been earlier than 50s too. It would have been more accurate for me to say I didn't have a truck. I think we could make room.
☃ Shannon K. Wendt Jun 10, 2007, 11:17pm UTC
None of the above.
George Corneliussen Jun 11, 2007, 6:50am UTC
Ron,
When I was young and stupid ( early 1970's ) I had two friends who owned a record store. They used to give me many of the record promos from their store when they were done with them. Of course I gave away or lost all of them over the years.
The one painful reminder I have of my stupidity is a fragment of a promo poster for "Cosmo's Factory" that has a drawing I made on the back it. I had literally thousands of dollars of collectibles and let them all slip away. Oh sweet stupidity of youth.
Ron Hall Jun 11, 2007, 8:31am UTC
Thanks for weighing in Shannon.

George, it's so hard to know which things are going to be the hot collectibles of the future. Or rather, should I say, you have to have decades of experience under your belt to recognize what's really hot now and will resonate with nostalgia buffs down the road. My example would be 3-color 50s Pepsi bottles. In the mid-70s I could have stacked up hundreds of them for a nickel apiece. Today, if you can find one for $12, you have a deal.
clellie t. Jun 12, 2007, 12:55pm UTC
Besides the sales, you can also see some of the most exquisite gardens in the St.Paul alleys and back yards. What a wonderful way to spend time. Next to Minnesota, Colorado is my favorite place. Arizona is a beautiful place to visit, but I don't think I'd want to live there. I need trees. Thanks for a good and entertaining article.
Ron Hall Jun 12, 2007, 4:08pm UTC
You're right of course, Clellie. People have beautiful gardens (and homes). A yard sale is your invitation to go check it out. I like Arizona in the winter, of course. The northern suburbs of Phoenix have incredible "carport" sales.
Karolyn Q. Jun 17, 2007, 11:20am UTC
I love the third pair of earrings.
Lori Cee Jun 17, 2007, 1:42pm UTC
the womens shirts were a good buy. my 5yr old diva would LUV those earrings! i would definitely keep the sign language dictionary.
Ireny K. Jun 17, 2007, 4:32pm UTC
the earrings are cute:) esp the globe.
Ron Hall Jun 17, 2007, 8:04pm UTC
Karolyn, quite "spacey", huh?

Lori, we are enjoying all those things.

Irene, the globes were the first one's Janie wore.

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