Bartering And Horse Trading (Part Duh)

[Spectrism]

Went out yard sale-ing today. Had a few worthless stops... but did get to say hi to some fellow hunters. Started to think there was nothing happening today.

One place had nothing interesting... then I saw some Nursing text books. They looked like school tech books and the one that caught my attention was on surgery. You never know when you might have to do something... and some knowledge is better than none. I asked the girl what she wanted for the books. She apologized that the box should have been marked "free". 7 good school books- a bit outdated (maybe 12-15 yrs old), but still good info.


Stopped in a place that had old junk, the kind of stuff that looked like it was in a basement too long. Then I saw a cast iron pot.... and then a couple sterling candle holders. These weighted little candle holders are only 0.3 oz each. So this is: 0.6 x .925 = 0.55 toz silver, or, about $8 of silver. The pot was an old Wagner. No lid. Needs cleaning up and seasoning but probably a $15-20 value. I got these for $6.


I picked up some items from a dealer/ auctioneer at another yard sale. He was pretty good about selling off some things reasonably priced. I bought at about $15/oz except for a numismatic Morgan CC.

Loot included:

$21-face of silver quarters (at $11 per $1face) = $231. [16.8 toz x 0.9 = 15 toz pure silver]

$150 for 10 toz-
3 christmas art rounds: 1997, 1990, unyrd
1 christmas art bar 1993
1 NWT Mint bar
1 Silvertowne bar

$35 for 4 oz of sterling pieces

$10 for a 20grm South African art bar
$11 Morgan dollar (because I used my last dollar in my wallet and he included it with the CC Morgan.
$40 Morgan 1878-CC

Total spend- $477. I didn't know I had that much in my wallet. If I had more I would have bought more.


At another place I asked if the people were moving. The woman said no- they just had some things from a friend whose son had died. Essentially, it cost them nothing and they were disposing of it. I saw a small tool box with a couple knives, 4 rachet drivers, a set of sockets, a couple tape measures, and a few other things. I heard them asking the male head of household about it and he had no clue what was in it and didn't care.... I heard a questioning $3. Then he asked what was offered. When asked, I offered $5 and got the deal. The knives were easily worth $5 each.... one a hunting knife made in Germany, the other a locking large pocket knife from Pakistan.