My wife found a giant sectional couch that’s in “great condition” at an estate sale. She couldn’t believe no one bought it for $900. She bid $500 on the last day of the sale and was shocked she won.
I sincerely doubt anyone else even bid on the thing. People with living rooms that large don’t buy used couches. We have a relatively large living room and it still sticks out funny.
My wife is so excited. I don’t have the heart to tell her that I hate it. So now I’m out $500, stuck with a behemoth of a couch with worn out cushions, and I have to give away the perfectly nice couch we already have.
So… that’s interesting.
A small bag that fits my ‘worlds tiniest usable bbq’, so it wont get soot all over other things when I shove it in the bag.
that’s the bbq. The bag is early 90s, all black thick double plastic, and has all different colored stitching. It was 1,- euro. I included a 0,50 metal bottle opener with minimal rust, so the bag is a complete kit bbq now, hahaha.
That’s a glorious little BBQ. Come and join us over at !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk!
I found a Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. That’s the one featured in an excellent video from Technology Connections. I can afford the $6 for toast that’s “Automatic Beyond Belief!”
I found a piece of medical quackery that gently electrocutes people while an operator twists and turns a dial until a piece of plastic feels not sticky.
I should probably make a post about it because it’s pretty fucking cool even though it’s completely and totally useless.
It runs on freaking tubes! And it has cool dials and shit! And a faux marble faceplate on top of bakelite that I’m 100% certain has asbestos in it.
An almost 100 year old analog clock that is still ticking. This thing was made during the Great Depression.
A really cute music box with a broken mechanism, but I was able to fix it and spruce it up with red suede linings and a mirror.
A really nice hammer that I cleaned and decorated for theatrical use. I named her Miss Scarlet.
My nicest furniture was found stooping. I found a set of antique bronze and inlayed are likely worth a few grand. All it cost was $20 of cleaning materials and two hours of labor.
