6/2/12 Purchase Summary

We started our day yesterday by going to a nearby neighborhood's annual community sale. This was a new experience for me as this sale was always right before finals when I was in college. I had no idea what to expect but I wasn't too optimistic -- neighborhood sales are usually pretty poor. As it turns out, this sale was amazing; I counted sixty-two houses having sales and that figure does not include houses with just a coffee table or something similar sitting out front. Sixty-two houses is an absurdly large number of participating houses. I think I've discussed this before, but most "neighborhood sales" have maybe six or eight participants if you are lucky. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised.

That said, none of the individual sales at the neighborhood sale were especially good; I would estimate we drove by over half of them. Of my five purchases of the day, only two were from the neighborhood sale: a box of solar panels for $0.50 (fun for projects) and a bust of Julius Caesar for $1.00.

The Nalgene is regular-sized; that bust is 24" tall

Between a late start and the neighborhood sale, we didn't start saling along our normal route until almost 9:30 yesterday morning so many of the sales were already closing up by the time we got to even the middle of our route. My only purchases outside the neighborhood sale were at the first sale at which we stopped along our normal route: two books (The Brothers Karamazov and Ulysses) and a new gaming keyboard (a SteelSeries 6Gv2) all for $0.20. The keyboard sells for $85 on Amazon. I have it listed on Craigslist but if I can't find a buyer for a good price I'll just keep it for myself.