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Post by surfpick on Nov 24, 2014 20:05:05 GMT -5
Scooters are a fantastic way to explore yard sales.
You may have to return with your car for the bigger items,
or you may just have to strap them to your scooter if you don't have a car, like me.
At yard sales you can find vintage items for a small fraction of what we have to pay for modern junk.
They don't make stuff like they used to.
What have you scored lately?
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Post by surfpick on Nov 24, 2014 20:15:44 GMT -5
In the short time I've had my scooter I've scored a golf club, a scythe, a gas can, bungee cords, a small duffel that I can strap to my passenger seat to haul mucho groceries & more. This week I found a beautiful cutting board, a really great small heater ( I think they have cutoffs on many recent heaters, to reduce lawsuits?) I also found these great cutters in a pile of tools. They looked like they had decades of patina & grime on them. They are very heavy stainless steel with a spring mechanism that is entirely enclosed. Beautiful engineering. They operate as smoothly as silk & glide effortlessly through everything from paper to small branches. They make my little Fiskar cutters feel like cheap junk, in comparison. They were $1  |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Dec 24, 2014 10:08:13 GMT -5
Yard sales ARE swell!
I haven't gotten any treasures at them lately, but I've found that when riding, you can also on occasion, see some neat stuff poking out of dumpsters. I've found good gas-powered weed-whackers, good bicycles, lawnmowers and such. When apartment and trailer-park dwellers move out, they often leave one step ahead of the law... LOL! Management just dumps EVERYTHING, good or bad.
I've also found many good-working color TV's that way. Now that high-def flat-screen TV's are the rage, old-school low-def TV's have no value at all. And for free, they're a REAL bargain!
Back in the seventies, I hauled a BIG ficus-tree down the freeway 30 miles on a Harley bagger... balanced on the tank... I had to ever-so-gently lay the Hog down on my front lawn to dislodge the tree... I was young and plenty strong back then, and still strained everything picking that Harley back up again before all her juices started leaking out on the paint... LOL!
Yup, yard sales, dumpsters and curbside goodies abound when you're riding!
Enjoy your treasures!
Leo in Texas
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