Yard sales / rummage sales!

[Oneslowz28]

When I was a kid my mother used to go to these every weekend. I remember getting a lot of my electronic toys this way. I have not been to one in 12 or 13 years. Well this weekend my mothers subdivision held one that was neighbor hood wide. So after my emergency dr appointment Saturday morning (all fine btw) I rode around looking at what the people were peddling. All I am going to say is that I scored big. I got:

D-link wireless N router for $3.00 :banana:
Brand new in box Lexmark all in one printer for $5 (never been opened)
logitech 5.1 surround for pc for $2.00
HP laser printer (going to be used for PCB fab) for $3 and full of toner.):banana:(gonna mod it to print direct to PCB.)
3 large photography coffee table books by Ansel Adams for $0.50 each:bunny:
several dvd's for $.025 each, Napoleon Dynamite, die hard series, and 2 seasons worth of family guy. :eek:
and last but not least, the best peanut butter cookies I ever ate from a little girl who was selling them to raise money for summer camp. $.25 each but I got 3 and gave her a $5 and told her to keep it.


I am looking forward to hitting up a few that are going to be around this coming weekend and maybe find a new desk chair and an old pc that has a good 754 mobo.

[BuzzKillington]

WTF! I'm moving to your town. I live about 30min for the border so needless to say every yardsale around here is clothes, shoes and more clothes.

[Luke122]

I've been watching the yardsales for audio equipment and musical instruments.. I've got more than enough computer junk already.. :(

[Oneslowz28]

Most of these came from the high end of my mothers new neighborhood. If it came from where I grew up the list would be a lot less cool things and more junk. My mother just bought a new house in this sub division and its not even finished being built yet. Hers is in the $150K section and the section I got most of this from is houses in the $500k-$750k that were built several years ago. So this came from fairly well off people.

I was telling my friend about this and he said that he goes to them all the time. He said that he only goes to the ones held in nice subdivisions though. He scored enough work out equipment to turn his spare room above his garage into a fully equipped gym including free weights, and a juice bar. I remember when I helped him carry is bow flex up there. He said he got it at a yard sale for $50.

[nevermind1534]

I've even had a few good finds in $50-$60k areas, but the better ones are usually where the houses are expensive.

[Luke122]

Agreed.. just like the better halloween candy! :D

[Oneslowz28]

There goes the solution for all your computer junk Luke. Just give it out during Halloween. :))

[billygoat333]

There goes the solution for all your computer junk Luke. Just give it out during Halloween. :))


I'd go to your house if you did that. :D

[985323]

same here

[Xpirate]

I tried to sell some of my old unwanted computer junk at a garage sale and it did not sell at all.

[TheGreatSatan]

Whenever I go to a yard sale that has computer stuff it's usually very old and the owner still thinks it's worth a ton. I've seen Pentium 1's with a defective OS that the owner wants $50 for. He probably bought it 20 years ago for like $2000 too.

[nevermind1534]

I tried to sell some of my old unwanted computer junk at a garage sale and it did not sell at all.

You need the right person. You would probably be best off wither listing it on craigslist or putting it in a big lot on ebay.

[Oneslowz28]

Yea I saw that this weekend too TGS. Guy in his 70's or 80's had a windows 95 box with a 13" crt and a 8gb hhd and wanted $100 for it. I told him it was not worth $2 and he said that he paid over 3k for it in the mid 90's and that it still worked. He thought it was a bargain @ $100. He also mentioned that it had AOL pre installed and he had all the diskettes that came with it still in their case. This guy also had some cool ww1 or ww2 era short wave radios I wanted to buy. They were about 2' x 2' cubed and looked so freakin cool. Would have made a nice server case or something. They were priced in the 3 digit range too so they stayed on the tables.

[nevermind1534]

This guy also had some cool ww1 or ww2 era short wave radios I wanted to buy.

I got one of those. Runs on four D batteries. Didn't cost much, either.

[Oneslowz28]

These things were as big as a 19" crt tv set 1 was maybe 3 foot cubed.

[nevermind1534]

These things were as big as a 19" crt tv set 1 was maybe 3 foot cubed.

I don't think mine is quite that big, but it is somewhat large.

[Oneslowz28]

He told me they were so expensive because of the value the tubes inside held. I offered him $20 for one and he politely declined.

[nevermind1534]

He told me they were so expensive because of the value the tubes inside held. I offered him $20 for one and he politely declined.

Oh, yeah. I wonder how many vacuum tubes they had.