robinson46176
05-29-2009, 05:17 PM
My wife and I and one grandson took off today to visit a bunch of yard sales. We usually do yard sales most weekends anyway and often hit a dozen or so. Today was different. This is the week of the US-40 yard sales. Anybody that wanted to along US-40 (aka The Old National Road) was to set up a sale this weekend. It is an annual thing and we missed last year but try to hit it each year. I don't recall how far west it runs but I know it includes all of Indiana and runs to the east coast ending in Maryland. We just did the east half of Indiana. :D
We skipped a lot of sales especially the parking lots full of fle market stuff and especially the ones with almost all new stuff. You get the real bargains at the real yard sales where someone has been ordered under threat of life and limb to clear out all that #$%& stuff in the garage, attic or barn.
We do not know how many sales we hit today but figuring a little between us we decided it may have been over 60. Dang I'm tired, must be getting old.
The odd thing this year was that while I picked up a few small tools I didn't buy a single woodworking tool. Actually I didn''t see many of them. I saw a couple of band saws but didn't even price them. I've had others but have been spoiled by the SS bandsaw as a small saw. I saw one pretty crappy looking table saw and I saw a dusty RAS up in a truck bed that I assume the driver had just bought. I didn't even see much in the way of "usable" woodworking hand tools either. On our regular weekend yard sales we often see more woodworking stuff.
As we go to local sales I often spot a ShopSmith sitting in a garage (almost never one for sale) and often chat with the owner about it. Today at all of those sales I did not see a single ShopSmith item. :eek: Not one... Odd.
I may have to hit a sale or two locally tomorrow just to get a woodworking tool fix. ;)
We skipped a lot of sales especially the parking lots full of fle market stuff and especially the ones with almost all new stuff. You get the real bargains at the real yard sales where someone has been ordered under threat of life and limb to clear out all that #$%& stuff in the garage, attic or barn.
We do not know how many sales we hit today but figuring a little between us we decided it may have been over 60. Dang I'm tired, must be getting old.
The odd thing this year was that while I picked up a few small tools I didn't buy a single woodworking tool. Actually I didn''t see many of them. I saw a couple of band saws but didn't even price them. I've had others but have been spoiled by the SS bandsaw as a small saw. I saw one pretty crappy looking table saw and I saw a dusty RAS up in a truck bed that I assume the driver had just bought. I didn't even see much in the way of "usable" woodworking hand tools either. On our regular weekend yard sales we often see more woodworking stuff.
As we go to local sales I often spot a ShopSmith sitting in a garage (almost never one for sale) and often chat with the owner about it. Today at all of those sales I did not see a single ShopSmith item. :eek: Not one... Odd.
I may have to hit a sale or two locally tomorrow just to get a woodworking tool fix. ;)