Went to an estate sale off Shields Ave last Saturday and someone had priced all the cross stitch kits and yarn at $2 a piece. I grabbed 14 skeins of vintage wool that still had the original labels from the 70s. Put them on eBay when I got home and two already sold for $18 each. Anyone else finding that old lady craft supplies are secretly the best flip in the whole game?
Met a guy at a flea market in Dayton who said most people buy the story not the object, and after he told me a $3 cracked vase was from a 1920s speakeasy, I started asking sellers about every weird piece and now I find way cooler stuff.
Everyone in this group loves a vintage radio find, but mine turned into a real headache. I spotted it at a flea market in Des Moines for $35, seller swore it powered on, and it did for about 10 seconds before the smell of burnt plastic filled my car. Turned out the original capacitors were rotted and it nearly shorted the whole circuit. I spent another $60 on a repair guy who said the speaker cone was also cracked beyond saving. Now I got a pretty paperweight and a lesson: 'mint condition' from a random table just means it was stored in a dry basement. Has anyone else had a cheap electronic that cost triple to fix and still wasn't worth it?
Picked up a battered 6-inch reflector for $40 at a flea market outside Tucson last month. It needed a new eyepiece, but the views of Jupiter blow away that brand new scope I bought at a big box store for 10 times the money. Anyone else find real astronomy gear hiding in junk piles instead of paying retail?
Picked up a beat-up Sunbeam at a church sale in Tulsa for 2 bucks, figured it was a throwaway. That thing has whipped more frosting than my fancy KitchenAid ever did, the motor sounds like a dying bee but it just keeps going. Anyone else got a junk find that turned out to be the workhorse?