July 20th

weather: great!

amount spent: $28.15

comments: lots of sales today


starting at the top left, with the large chrome box:

• bread and chip keeper, has a warmer (plugs in) on the inside bottom. Not sure about the usefulness of this appliance, the guy selling it said it worked great in FL...-$1
• sitting on top of the warmer, a large-display digital clock - $1
• Salton coffee grinder - $1
• older steam iron - 75 cents
• 2 leather covered hard sided cases, originally "portable bars" - $1.50/both
• nice cotton T-shirts, 3 on left and 3 on right side of table - 60 cents for all
• gooseneck lamp off a Dewalt radial arm saw - $1
• tiny Tupperware pitcher - 10 cents
• blue/black softside CD wallet - 25 cents
• 3 drawing pencils (on orange T-shirt) - $1/all
• 6 nice vintage ladie's handkerchiefs - $1.50/all
• book, paperback, Michner's Tales of the South Pacific - 10 cents
• 3 serving spoons, 2 are slotted - $1/all
• CD wallet that fits on a car visor - 25 cents

Joe chatted up one of the sellers at the sale where he bought the bread/chip keeper, talking him down from the original $3 asking price to a buck, also helping him adjust an office chair he was trying to sell. The seller was telling Joe how they'd recently moved to Loveland from Florida...blah, blah, blah. The keeper was held closed with a very large wire tie, and the seller started joking that there was a dead squirrel inside, telling Joe to be sure not to eat it, etc. Ha-ha. Well, when we got home and opened it up, instead of the squirrel, we found this stuff carefully wrapped and packed inside. The item with the skier is a glass disk suspended in a silver colored circular frame, As you can see in this picture, Attie was intrigued with the shadows it produced. The garish coffeepot and 4 teacups are in pretty bad shape and have been glued back together. The blue glass covered with silver S + P shakers are full of S + P. All the stuff was wrapped in newspaper from Orlando dated last December, and we're betting the sellers had no idea it was in there. We're trying to remember where the heck the sale where we bought this was, if we can figure it out we will take the stuff back and ask if they want it, because it is obvious they didn't know any of it was in there.


starting at the bottom left table corner in this picture, continuing around the outside edge of the table:

• cream and blue heavyweight fabric - $1
• red, white and blue plaid fabric - 25 cents
• blue and white checked fabric - $1
• bright blue plaid fabric - 25 cents
• impossible-to-make-out piece of fabric (heavyweight with an abstract modern design) - $1
• gray wool blanket Atticus is laying on - free (yep, it was in a "free box", amazingly enough. 100% wool, and it smells like sizing, so I'll bet it's never been used)
• 2 books, paperback, about Spanish verbs - 50 cents/both
• gray eyeglasses case which clips onto a belt - 25 cents
• (the two yellow stripes...) are a John Deere bar clamp (for woodworking) - 50 cents
• (just below the Spanish verb books) hardshelled eyeglasses case - 50 cents
• (round) Timex thermometer with humidity gauge - $1.50
• small square black nylon zippered case - free
• book, softcover, about Pantone color - $1
• book, paperback, Grisham's The Broker - 25 cents

Attie, still on the wool blanket, checks out:

• a Welbilt bread machine which will make 2 lb loaves - $3
• collapsible net hamper - $1

Attie then pulls the hamper to the other side of the table so he can figure out a way to get inside it. Success!!

Square Tupperware container for ?? - 10 cents
stack of large envelopes - $1/all

• nice plastic cabinet, will work for crawlspace storage after it is cleaned up - $3

• Very nice Hon file cabinet for MR. - $1 We've been looking for a good one all year, finally found just what we wanted today