9/8/12 Purchase Summary

I had another great haul yesterday. While I bought more items than is typical for me, I still spent only $2.75 and I managed to buy an item for myself, an item for a Christmas gift, and several resale items.

My first purchase was two TI-83 graphing calculators and one manual. As I mentioned yesterday, these are being added to the $2.65 challenge. I've had a lot of people emailing me about them recently so hopefully they sell soon; I should make $40/calculator.

I later bought a copy of Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64 along with a food scale for $0.50. I just happened to find Goldeneye in a box of random electronics (always check the boxes of cables, there is sometimes good stuff buried); it's already sold on Amazon for $12. I bought the scale as a gift for my dad for Christmas because my mom would never buy him one despite him asking for years. I got pretty lucky getting both items for $0.50 considering the scale was marked at $0.75; the seller wouldn't even consider my friend's offer when he tried to bargain.

I bought a copy of Super Mario World at a church sale for $0.25. It's on Amazon right now but it won't sell for a while. This was only the second church/organization sale from which I ever bought anything.

I later on bought one of the oldest Game Boys, a case, and one game for $0.50. The woman originally wanted $10 but she quickly went down once I showed her that the batteries had exploded inside the Game Boy. I took it home and scraped out the gunk and, much to my not surprise, it worked. Unfortunately, some of the pixels are dead but it can supposedly be fixed. I don't think I'm going to bother, I'm just going to list it on Craigslist -- sans game -- with the Game Boy accessories I bought a few weeks ago. Sadly, the game is Tetris 2 (not Tetris like I thought it was) but I'm still keeping it despite having learned that Tetris 2 is a terrible game. I have no estimate for how much I can get for the Game Boy stuff.

My last purchase was a tea infuser mug for myself. I had tried to buy it a few months ago when the seller had another sale but he wouldn't accept my offer of $0.50. Yesterday he relented (although at first he still insisted on $1, he eventually realized that he had had it for a while) and I got my infuser.

And the obligatory photo of my purchases, of course: