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So every now and then I like myself a nice garage sale. Going to, not doing one. It never surprises me what gold you might find out of pure dumb luck. Yesterday I bought this Star Trek ornament because I thought it would be cool on the tree this year. It’s the Enterprise and it was made in 1991. Well I do a little search and these first year ornaments are fetching 100.00 + . I’m not a treky I just thought it looked cool. So now I’m thinking it may end up on someone else tree. I would have never guess it had that kind of collector value.
Anyone else hit the garage sales just for the fun of it? Absolutely not... I don't miss the things I'm missing.. 
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Sounds like horse people done lost their fool mind paying those prices for horse hardware.
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My dad was a solid hoarder. Especially of ammo. When we were having a garage sell to sell his stuff they made a total of $200 until I priced his ammo and sold it for Box price X 1.5. They had $2500 at the end of it.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Sounds like horse people done lost their fool mind paying those prices for horse hardware. Usually not even horse people. Collectors in Old West memorabilia. I never was a heavy hitter. But I knew the heavy hitters. Usually when I bought an expensive item, I already knew where to go with it, and how much it would bring. 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Campfire Outfitter
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Me I got a rem Classic in 350 mag..with a leupold scope sling gun case and several boxes of ammo all for 250 bucks..
The scope and ammo was worth more than $250. You got the rifle free, man!
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I buy , restore and sell some antique cast iron cookware. My best garage sale find was a Griswold #13 skillet. Paid $100 and sold it for $1600 after cleaning it. That's the holy grail right there... I'm still hoping to find a box of them for $1 at a sale sometime...
Public landowner...
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The neighbor 2 doors down had a garage sale. Older fella. I went hoping to find a good shovel that I could keep in the back of the truck as I'd recently broken mine. It was late afternoon Saturday and everything had been picked over. All that was left was junk.
I then spied a gunstock peeking out behind a mattress. It was this rusty, filthy pump 12 guage. JC Higgins model 20. The action was so gummed up, the action wouldn't budge. $20 took it home.
After 2 cans of brake cleaner and 2 hours, I had a fine, slick pump gun. The action must have been hosed down with WD40 at some point, because it was completely gummed.
The only issue was the mobil choke/muzzle brake thing didn't have a choke tube. I chopped it off and was surprised when it patterns about like an IC choke.
It cleaned up great!
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that was a High Standard gun, I am thinking. Nothing wrong with them, at all!
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Had one of those neighborhood yardsales once. When we got to the point where it was close to being over, I put a sign up that said “everything that’s left, $20”
Gone in 10 minutes.
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have found some good buys at garage sales over the years.
most recent was a tackle box full of catfishing stuff...about 25 pounds of sinkers, weights from 1oz to 5 oz, plus assorted hooks, etc...paid $2 for the lot. At the same sale, got a pair of Coleman propane camp stoves for $4 each.
some years ago, got a Remington 870 Special Field 20ga, was an early model fixed choke gun...$200, looked about new. Still have it today; i bought a 21" factory barrel from here in the classifieds that has rem-chokes.
not long after that i got a Browning luggage style hard-case for over/unders.....lady said it was a trumpet case, i think i paid $5 or $10 for that one.
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