07-08-2018, 09:30 PM
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BP Mafia
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Ft. Thomas, KY
Posts: 8,596
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Wowwwww.
I have never found anything even close to that worthwhile at a garbage sale.
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When I was about 12, the local garbageman/city engineer retired. The golf course was buying his property and he had 30 years worth of collected junk, so he had a week long garage sale. I went whenever I could scrounge a couple of quarters and one of the things I picked up was a dirty old brass horse pull toy. I think it was $.25. I took it home and Mom loved it, so she cleaned it up and asked if it could go into her new curio cabinet. A couple of years later she took it to an antique dealer who offered her several hundred dollars for it. She had the feeling he was low-balling her, so she brought it home. I think she's had two curio cabinets since then, and it's been in all of them.
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