Our neighborhood hosted their annual multi-family yard sale last week, and the Maker (pictured here, with a selection of his loot) was up by 7 am on a Saturday, armed with $5.00 and ready to fight for first pick of the best goods.
I think he got pretty good value for his money, but I’ll let you judge for yourself:
- One weird squeezy balloon filled with flour and taped shut: ABSOLUTELY FREE!
- One creepy voodoo doll, apparently in reasonably good health: ABSOLUTELY FREE!
- A remote-control fart machine: $1.00
- A battered, piece-of-crap Airsoft pistol: $2.00
- An old basketball: $1.00
- A flat volleyball (with lots of dog scratches, he said): ABSOLUTELY FREE!
- Juice box: 50 cents
- Fruit Roll-Up: 50 cents
The remote-controlled fart machine was the purchase he was most excited about but it didn’t come with batteries, so we’ll undoubtedly be forking over (another) $5.00 in order to purchase those. Can’t wait!
In the picture, from the left: plastic pistol, flour-filled balloon, voodoo doll, fart machine.
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That sounds like a lot of cool loot.. did he ever get the fart machine working?
I can only remember two yard sale events – once I got my mom a plate for serving deviled eggs, complete with little dimples for the egg halves to nestle in. I don’t recall ever seeing her use it, though she does make deviled eggs from time to time. I’m pretty sure it was promptly “disappeared”.
The other was a turtle candle I bought for 50 cents. It still lives at my parent’s house and so far everyone seems to have resisted the urge to melt it.
Yes he did get the fart machine working and they got a solid week of unrestrained hilarity out of it. I swear to you I am not the one who “disappeared” it, but it did disappear. I have not questioned my husband, however. And I don’t plan to.
Let me just say that I LOVE the turtle — what a bargain! It’s not even a little bit squidgy or wonked; the wick has hardly even been touched. It’s adorable, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it has not only held it’s value, it has appreciated. I would totally pay $1 for that turtle. Dude, can you imagine if you had bought hundreds of them? You’d be rolling in cash now.
And having once been a professional Methodist, I can assure you that the deviled egg trays are still in regular use at church basement potluck dinners. You are certainly a man who understands value when you see it. You just need to get your merchandise before the right audience.