Tag: economy
member name: Ron Hall
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April 08, 2009 07:51 AM EDT --
As of Saturday, March 28th, we were not in full-tilt yard sale season yet, so our pictures come from a real mix of things: a rummage sale; an estate sale; an antiques show; an Asian grocery; . . .
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May 29, 2009 09:09 AM EDT --
As will happen some times during a typical summer, our Saturday was taken up by something other than yard sales. The answer was to take Friday off and go YARD SALING! Despite my sneering at . . .
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June 06, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
On May 30th Janie and I had several community yard sales to choose from.
The suburb of Burnsville, Minnesota was having a huge and very tempting sale, with somewhere between 150 and 200 sales, . . .
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June 17, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
Okay, there's this new dance, see? It's called Hypermililing, and it's the bomb. Everybody who is anybody is doing it. If you're still flooring your Suburban or Cadillac . . .
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June 21, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
If you go to any one of the online driving map services and type in "St. Paul, MN to Ouray, CO", it will pick you a route through Des Moines, Iowa and Grand Junction, Colorado. I . . .
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June 22, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
If there was an ad in the local paper about the Minikhada Heights Neighborhood Yard Sale, I didn't see it. Nor did the man who paid for it. Sixty or so homes were participating, and not . . .
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October 24, 2008 08:49 AM EDT --
When you cut the value of scrap metal in half, how does that affect the things people will scrap out? That's today's theme, because I'm one of those people, and I'll be my own case . . .
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October 31, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
Janie went to the first two sales with me, and then she had to go to work. I continued on with 5 more sales on the list.
The first sale of the day was outstanding. I know this, because . . .
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April 17, 2009 09:38 AM EDT --
Last Saturday Janie and I got in a pretty good rummage sale.
Then she hung out for a while as I checked out an estate sale (as usual, all the good stuff was downstairs).
And we rounded . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:31 AM EDT --
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Oh, sweet budding nectar of spring, yes!
The first neighborhood sale of 2009 is in the bag. Because Diamond Path Addition is out in the 'burbs . . .
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May 08, 2009 08:23 AM EDT --
Bryn Mawr, a neighborhood just to the west of downtown Minneapolis, has Festival of Garage sales the first Saturday of May. It's hu-normous. It's been going on forever.
Let's . . .
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April 16, 2006 10:23 AM EDT --
To Buy or Not to Buy is a weekly column on things I did and didn't buy during the past week. Yard sale season has begun.
Find of the week:
Automatic milking pail
price - $30
no sale.
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April 24, 2006 11:22 PM EDT --
Ack! Blasphemy! Nuts are wholesome, and microwaves are modern monstrosities. How dare I bombard the poor things with evil rays.
Watch me.
Pre-roasted nuts in bags and cans are almost . . .
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July 01, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
The objective - to get 40 miles per gallon out of a 1997 Saturn sedan.
The test area - a stretch of rural roads between Minnesota and Colorado.
The average of 3 tanks of gas will . . .
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April 21, 2009 05:59 PM EDT --
Janie and I didn't need to wander past the fringes of downtown this week. Pretty soon we'll be able to banish the notion of driving far and wide; it will be more a matter of finding . . .
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June 10, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
The community of Bayport, Minnesota yielded up a very pleasant surprise this last Friday. Home to Andersen Windows, the community has a very interesting demographic. The company has been . . .
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June 10, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
Imagine driving across Nebraska in the summer, at 53 miles per hour . . .
Our Saturn sedan is not a sports car by any means and yet, if I'm sitting at the light at an onramp that feeds into . . .
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June 12, 2008 08:17 PM EDT --
Up until a few weeks ago, the thought would not have crossed my mind. Getting to Southwestern Colorado was all about doing it in less than 22 hours. I even drove the whole way back to St. . . .
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June 24, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
Last year Janie and I showed up for a neighborhood yard sale in the Wedge neighborhood of Minneapolis, but we saw no sale, so we moved on. This year, Janie had to work on Saturday, and I went to . . .
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July 21, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
The Minikhada Heights neighborhood is right on the border. Downtown is full of diversity and creativity, the suburbs are what they are (and there's no point on elaborating). This neighborhood . . .
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