Showing posts with label flea market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flea market. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

Surplus Finds


Just look at these very cool boxes of goodies I found at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point surplus sale! The sales are held on Friday afternoons about twice a month. Parking can be tough unless you get there early. The staff are very nice and helpful.
I rarely leave empty handed. Usually I find cool, fun, and cheap stuff.

In the past I have found; large wall maps, wooden tripod base for surveying equipment, desk chairs, bookshelves, storage boxes, a rolling metal typing stand, old lab equipment, many many books, boxes of sheet music, and reels of old educational films.
All very reasonably priced (OK super cheap!)

I got a big bag of green army men for Ethan...who knows where they are now! He goes through so many of them...they are everywhere!
Also there were two sets of dinosaur counters made for classroom use. They were in perfect condition so I gave them to the kids school.


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Now the big question, what to do with'em all!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Weekends

I'm not even done with South Dakota posts, but I wanted to mention the flea market I set up at the other weekend. I live in the boondocks, so having a garage sale is a waste of time. I instead paid a couple of bucks and set up a local flea market for the weekend. The weather was nice, we got rid of some extra stuff and ate great homemade pie, YUM!
The kids made more money than I did! I realized I didn't have too much of mine for sale. I have a hard time getting rid of anything. 

I had to wear the apron after I realized how nice it looked with my Wall Drug t-shirt!


I did buy a few things though.....What am I going to do with these?  A coffee can and a bucket full of old shut off knobs. No Idea, but they are VERY cool!