Tag: recession
member name: Ron Hall
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October 03, 2008 09:03 AM EDT --
With no neighborhood yard sales to go to, Janie and I are adjusting with the season and going to rummage sales instead. We saw some yard sales in between, that was a bonus. It . . .
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October 17, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
Janie had to work this weekend, so I went about the business of mining rummage sales for scrap metal. That metal completely paid for my expenses and even provided an okay hourly wage . . .
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May 13, 2008 08:48 PM EDT --
These are just suggestions and I welcome your ideas also. Think of it as another exchange of top 10 lists. You don't have to be an economist. I'm not.
How to save money: . . .
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March 28, 2009 07:57 AM EDT --
Janie was able to come along on the yard sale run last Saturday. We managed 3 stops on a semi-wintery spring day, and had some luck and a few yuks.
Find of the day
Saw and unused blades . . .
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April 10, 2009 07:38 AM EDT --
This week we were at several rummage sales, and a couple of estate sales. The estate sale being held in a garage was actually the better one. The one inside the mansion turned out to be a . . .
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June 01, 2008 02:31 PM EDT --
If you haven't had a chance to see what Janie and I didn't buy at yard sales yesterday, here's a link to that . There were both worthless things and precious things . . .
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July 20, 2008 12:39 PM EDT --
Our Find of the Day at yesterday's yard sales is a story in of itself. We've been in Colorado for the past few weeks, and while there I found myself using my mom's completely . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:51 PM EDT --
Thank you all for your patience. Sorry to be late in posting this week's yardsale adventures, but I'm having serious computer problems. It isn't stopping me from posting now, but . . .
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August 10, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
Yesterday it was just plain lovely out. Janie and I started at a couple of church rummage sales and then just wandered looking for signs. This is not by preferred method, but not seeing any . . .
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September 12, 2008 08:55 AM EDT --
Last Saturday, after several weeks of driving from one sale to another, Janie and I noticed that one of our favorite neighborhoods was having a sale. There are two adjacent alleys in to the south . . .
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September 19, 2008 08:14 AM EDT --
This week we found not one, but *two* neighborhood yard sales.
We started with the one in Waite Park because it started an hour earlier. It was not the better area for yard sales, but the find . . .
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September 26, 2008 07:11 PM EDT --
Welcome to part two of this week's Would You Buy This or Not, where we present all the cool things we bought last Saturday.
First though, I wanted to pass on a yardsale review from a friend who . . .
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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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January 02, 2009 08:41 PM EST --
In Minnesota, the sun is irrelevant.
It's a light source.
The other morning the news was reporting an overnight low of ten and an afternoon high of twenty. The skies . . .
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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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September 21, 2009 06:35 PM EDT --
While delivering a load of merchandise to my mom's shop in Colorado, we decided to drop in on one of Jack's semi-annual auctions at the Montrose fairgrounds. I used to go to events held by Jack's . . .
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August 03, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
Janie and I have been able to restore full access to Gather. Much thanks to Gather staff for their invaluable assistance! This week Janie and I found a neighborhood yard sale, three block . . .
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August 28, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
Would You Buy This or Not has been on the road for a couple of weeks, but the spirit of yard saling can't be left behind. We did manage to find a few good buys.
Buy of the trip: . . .
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September 26, 2008 08:52 AM EDT --
Janie and I left the house prepared to spend the whole day out there.
Three neighborhood yard sales: Irvine Park; Nokomis and Fridley.
We also heard Lynnhurst was having its neighborhood . . .
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