Would You Buy This or Not (June 30, 2008)

This week is the Would You Buy This or Not Road Show. On our way out to Colorado, we drove slowly this year, avoiding the interstate and going through small towns.  Since we were in no hurry we stopped in a few yard sales and such on the way.

Find of the day:

Four Gander Mountain shirts (Jordan, MN)

price - $1.75 each

sold

Though we were carrying merchandise out to my mom's shop in Colorado, we left a little room for yard sale finds.  We hadn't found as many shirts for her as we would have liked, so it was a treat to land another four really heavy ones.

Least interesting thing of the day:

Lawn mower (flea market in Aurora, NE)

price - $5,000

no sale

I explained we lived on the 15th floor.  This did not stop him from demonstrating that it can also be used as a push mower.

Other things we did and did not buy:

Sun catchers

price - 50 cents

no sale

Ordinarily we grab these up, because they can hang in a window for decades and still be bright and shiny as new.  These however had what appeared to be axle grease(?) smeared all over them.

Old golf clubs (Central City, NE)

price - $10 (each)

no sale

You can hardly give these away, though sometimes I see them for fifty cents or so.

Hand-woven floor mat (Central City, NE)

price - 50 cents

sold

I wasn't crazy about it, but someone put a lot of work into it and it wasn't totally ugly.

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On Saturday morning, we stopped for breakfast at the

also known as

If you want that feeling of being in a place where 95% of the patrons know one another and how many kids they have and how long each farm has been in each family, this is your place.  And the food is pretty good also.

Pecan waffle

price - $4.75

sold

This is an especially big waffle - big enough for 3 or 4 ounces of pecans to rest down in the squares.

Philly-cheese omelette (beef, onions, mushrooms and 3 eggs)

price - $6.75

sold, you ask?

sold.

The last item I'm a little hesitant to admit I bought, but I did.  Kitsch is bad taste in design.  This below is in about the worst taste, and as such has a very high kitsch factor.  I've also known more than one African American who collect "Negro" items, possibly as documentation they can show their grandkids and say, "See this?  This is the kind of demeaning crap we used to have to put up with."

Cannibal shot glass. (Motto reads "Down the Hatch") Aurora NE flea market

price - $3

sold

I too want to be able to produce something like this as a conversation item.  These days we couldn't imagine offering something like this in a department store or novelty shop.  Man, have times changed.

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I'll also be posting on some of the other things we saw while driving slowly across the Plains.  There will be a link to that when it's available.