Your summer bargains

[Metal_Solstice]

It is summer, and (at least for me) that means YARD SALES!!! Fancy that!
I seem to have epic luck, such as getting a vintage stereo system for a grand total of $ 1-erm- I need to invest an additional $10.75 for a new needle for the record player, if I ever get Paypal working, but considering the record player alone goes for $250 on ebay...



Anyway, what sort of bargains do you find during the summer? Dinosaur bones? Ancient treasure chests? Computers from 1980? Sausage? Godzilla?

[Laemkral]

I find that Father's Day is a good time to buy new clothes, and that I'm glad Anheuser-Busch owns Busch Gardens and Sea World because they give free entrance to military members once a year per park. Does mean lousy beer though....

That's about it, I don't really do the yard sale/bargain hunting thing.

[Yeahduff]

Been on the sellin end of things this year. Got rid of a bunch of junk and got 75 bucks for my effort.

My homegirl picked up a sweet coffee table with a good sized globe in the center of it though. Not sure what she paid for it.

[McDuffies]

I wanna buy cheap instruments on yard sales, but there aren't any, sigh. Well, there's still flee market.
(I did buy a trumpet in online auction, but I can't blow to save my life)

[IVstudios]

I picked up a few (obviously bootlegged) DVDs and a bakugan (because I am a child who is amused by simple things) at a yard sale the other week. Other than that it's been pretty slim pickings this year.

[Phact0rri]

I wish I was more thrifty like that...

[Metal_Solstice]

(I did buy a trumpet in online auction, but I can't blow to save my life)

I used to play the trombone, and the method to blow is fairly similar to a trumpet. It's like blowing a raspberry using only your lips (essentially pursing your lips together and forcing air through them, creating a "Phbt!" sound).

I am a child who is amused by simple things

Me too. It seems like what I buy is what I've always dreamed of having when I was little, like roller blades. Then there's all the fun stuff I find at the local Goodwill -and by local I mean about 40 miles away

[McDuffies]

I used to play the trombone, and the method to blow is fairly similar to a trumpet. It's like blowing a raspberry using only your lips (essentially pursing your lips together and forcing air through them, creating a "Phbt!" sound).

And you also have to be able to apply different pressure so that you can produce different pitches, and also to do it reliably. That's the harder part.

[kishmartine]

Vintage! nice!


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[Warren]

Then there's all the fun stuff I find at the local Goodwill -and by local I mean about 40 miles away

Man, I haven't been to a Goodwill in ages. These days I feel bad about buying some stuff that other people actually need.

Not that they would need Atari cartridges. I'd still buy those in a heartbeat.

[McDuffies]

What you do with them?

[Phact0rri]

I used to play the trombone, and the method to blow is fairly similar to a trumpet. It's like blowing a raspberry using only your lips (essentially pursing your lips together and forcing air through them, creating a "Phbt!" sound).

And you also have to be able to apply different pressure so that you can produce different pitches, and also to do it reliably. That's the harder part.

That tends to more of a jazz thing, trying to experiment beyond the treble clef. Pitch variation can accent your notes, but its like any instrument, and falls more into music theory than say classical notation. But if you want to play some awesome stuff its definitely a good thing to get into, down the line. I played trumpet for a while.

[spoonyliger]

I've been more-or-less a Yard Sale fanatic for the past few years. Mainly I look for Pokemon cards and video games, or anything anime/manga really. Last year I scored myself about 5000 Pokemon cards in about $100. I also bought Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask cartirdges for the N64, and Link's Awakening for GameBoy - all of them were working just fine thankfully. And, I'm glad that Majora's Mask game didn't have a BEN file in it. I also got four golden Superman cards in a blue frame for $10.

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to visit yard sales this year, and the few ones I did visit didn't have anything of my interest.

[McDuffies]

I used to play the trombone, and the method to blow is fairly similar to a trumpet. It's like blowing a raspberry using only your lips (essentially pursing your lips together and forcing air through them, creating a "Phbt!" sound).

And you also have to be able to apply different pressure so that you can produce different pitches, and also to do it reliably. That's the harder part.

That tends to more of a jazz thing, trying to experiment beyond the treble clef. Pitch variation can accent your notes, but its like any instrument, and falls more into music theory than say classical notation. But if you want to play some awesome stuff its definitely a good thing to get into, down the line. I played trumpet for a while.

I think there's a misunderstanding, because what I was saying was that you had to be able to play more than one note.

[peterabnny]

We're in the market for a new couch. I saw one that was wrapped in plastic and had a big "BB" painted in black letters on it. BB means Best Buy, right?

[Shucking Oysters]

We're in the market for a new couch. I saw one that was wrapped in plastic and had a big "BB" painted in black letters on it. BB means Best Buy, right?

No, it clearly stands for B.B. King. You should buy his out couch and sell it on E-bay. I'm sure you'll make a mint.

[peterabnny]

We're in the market for a new couch. I saw one that was wrapped in plastic and had a big "BB" painted in black letters on it. BB means Best Buy, right?

No, it clearly stands for B.B. King. You should buy his out couch and sell it on E-bay. I'm sure you'll make a mint.

SWEEEEET!! I'm on it, then! Unless, that is, I wanna keep it myself...