Flea Mkt. Finds

I can't help it, I buy these every time I can find some. I figure at some point I can barter or trade them for stuff.

When the Europeans first made contact with the indigenous populations in the Americas, it was not their guns that were coveted but their metal pots...

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There are of course those who do not want us to speak. Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. V for Vendetta

Finally got a stove top percolator in stainless steel(3$), tried to pick up one last year and it was priced at 15$, some times patience pays off.

Just this weekend I found an old wooden spice rack from the 70's with all the jars for $2 and three 70's corelle mixing bowls. My mom had some and man they were dropped, banged, and knocked around for years and never even had a chip. I paid $2 for the set of three. also got an old flour sifter for 50 cents.

This weekend, at a garage sale-got a Squeezo Deluxe,for $15. Looked it up,for new-$259.00. Got an antique apple peeler and a copper still-but those were not cheep,but are prep items.

I got my treadle sewing machine..looks good but I need to clean and oil the works..at least it isn't "locked up"....70.00

iron work is all unbroken but the cabinet needs re-finished..someone started to and just partial scraped(and gouged) the top......

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" As needs-MUST!!"--- in other words..a gal does what a gal has too!

Coleman white gas stove in VERY good condition (looks like used just a handful of times) $10. New case of 12 oz jelly jars with new rings/lids $2. So sad that garage sale season is nearly over!

I went out yard sale-ing today. I was able to buy a box of 4 120 hour emergency candles for $4. Thought that was a pretty good deal.

I saw 54 hr emergency candles in a candle shop for $4 a piece, I'd say you done very well.

My best luck is at the junkyard. I recently bought a bucket of automotive tools for 20 bucks containing;
-Proto slide hammer for pulling axles
-Battery test meter with a 90 amp ammeter
-3 jaw gear puller
-Blackhawk 2 jar gear puller
-Wye puller (either 2 or 3 bolts)
-Proto body filler file (this one will adjust to curves, and had a spare file for it)
-3 forged C clamps
-2 body dollies (for straightening dents in cars, etc.)
-5 hacksaw blades
-Set of Allen wrenches
-Rethreading dies, coarse and fine, 3/4" to 1 1/4"
-Starter "bump switch", for jogging the starter when you need to crank the engine from under the hood.
-Ring compressor, Blackhawk,
-AAmco ridge reamer

AND, about 8 or 9 blacksmith tools, that fit in the (square) hardy hole of an anvil.

He threw in the 5 gallon bucket on the deal, too. I figure that the new cost of these things is in the range of $600 to $700.

On another trip to the same junkyard, I bought a sorghum mill for $130. He had no idea what the heck it was--had to tell him. I was offered $200 for it by an antique dealer before I got out of the junkyard! One sold lately on Ebay (mounted on a homemade trailer and set up to power with a tractor PTO) for $1,350.

Goodwill stores have been good to us, too. Most of our clothing comes from there, and LOTS of books for entertainment reading and some reference works--paperbacks are a buck (on sale this week, 3 for 99 cents), and most hardbacks are 2 bucks. Then, we take them to a used bookstore and swap out what we have for some we haven't read yet. Goodwill also had 12 volt fans for 2 bucks each--got 6 last year. They provided me with enough lamps and light fixtures to light our whole house for 2 bucks each. Those are now converted to use 12 volt CFL bulbs, and have cigarette lighter plugs on them for use with our solar system. AM/FM/SW radio, $1.50, and a 12 volt to 3 volt converter for it, $1. We'll use this on the 12 volt house system, too. New speakers for the computer, $4. Coffee mugs, 50 cents. Canning jars, $4/dozen (kinda high, but they were clean). New Alladin quart insulated mug, $1.

Tomorrow, we are off to Elnora, IN, for their annual antique show and 5 acre flea market that fills the county farigrounds. I bought a lard rendering kettle there last year cheap. LINK: http://wrvaa.org/

Ok here is my list of goodies, 90 canning jars for 40 bucks off craigslist, a power inverter for 50.00 craigslist, flea market brand new vacuum sealer 20.oo, 150 gallon water jug...FREE yeppers, tons of metal garden fence from a farmer,along with metal feed storage barrells of 2 sizes 25 gallon and 55 gallon, wood posts metal fence posts,tons of treated wood, all for one hundred dollars. We are getting a free chicken and a rooster from our neighbor (the cost is just being kind to one another and some praise to God) a soy milk machine 9 can not have cows or goatsbut it is back up milk) 45 on e-bay. Bought a wood stove last year on clearence on line tih free site to store for 300 now going for 1300.oo and an extra fridge which I am storing dried milk and flour in for free ( we hauled it off) a cb radio new in box for 20.00 (need to buy antenna still) and some lamp oil on clearence a year ago at wal mart i got 11 jugs for 20.00. they are some of my treasures....can not tell me God is not good...