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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2205 on: September 15, 2015, 11:38:01 AM »
Quote from: hykeaswell on September 09, 2015, 06:22:08 AM
After many phonecalls found a hardware shop that was pleasant in dealing with my questions, and that without weird financial requirements. They'll be sending me an email with various options soon, and then I can order without a hassle. And without extra costs. Hurray for them.

First store I called was pleasant enough with their answers. But then they told me that I had to pay €15 at least for an order of a few euros. And it would be a gamble if it would fit neatly.
Other stores acted weird about the measurements I needed. Apparently knowing your data is not enough in a technical world.
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Could turn this into a quick bitch.
Never got the email. Called in to hear more, they would call me back.... sure....
There was another company, they were to call me back too.....  same story.
Called another company, they called me back immediately after looking for what I wanted to know, very helpful, but they did not have what I need.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2206 on: September 17, 2015, 02:10:32 PM »
Not today but a couple days ago I found a treadmill that had seen very little use.  My wife has been wanting one to keep up with her walking over the winter so it was a great find
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2207 on: September 17, 2015, 07:05:52 PM »
Quote from: Parts on September 17, 2015, 02:10:32 PM
Not today but a couple days ago I found a treadmill that had seen very little use.  My wife has been wanting one to keep up with her walking over the winter so it was a great find

I passed up a very nice one...SO kept telling me his mom had one...he neglected to tell me it had sat rotting in the wet basement for 5 years. :LOL:

Found a working bug zapper for the back porch next summer. :zoinks:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2208 on: September 18, 2015, 09:59:27 AM »
Quote from: Icequeen on September 17, 2015, 07:05:52 PM
Quote from: Parts on September 17, 2015, 02:10:32 PM
Not today but a couple days ago I found a treadmill that had seen very little use.  My wife has been wanting one to keep up with her walking over the winter so it was a great find

I passed up a very nice one...SO kept telling me his mom had one...he neglected to tell me it had sat rotting in the wet basement for 5 years. :LOL:

Found a working bug zapper for the back porch next summer. :zoinks:

Treadmills usually have 12 volt DC  permanent magnet motors which are very handy if you tinker,  I'll pick them up for that reason alone and scrap the rest.   Another good thing to look out for is in rear projection tvs there is fresnel lens the size of the screen which makes for good tinkering
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2209 on: September 19, 2015, 10:50:24 AM »
That a shop I thought had closed almost a decade ago was still open.
It was it's last week though. Kid could just in time buy what she needed for school.

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2210 on: October 05, 2015, 05:28:04 PM »
Two matching throw rugs with the stickers still on the back from a house just sold.

We are having a major housing turnover around here lately it seems, with every 3rd house either up for sale or just sold, they are cleaning out to put it up for sale or they buy it and don't like what's in it. Either way it's been a win.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2211 on: October 05, 2015, 06:57:01 PM »
Quote from: Icequeen on October 05, 2015, 05:28:04 PM
Two matching throw rugs with the stickers still on the back from a house just sold.

We are having a major housing turnover around here lately it seems, with every 3rd house either up for sale or just sold, they are cleaning out to put it up for sale or they buy it and don't like what's in it. Either way it's been a win.
Nice! I get emails from local estate sales and have found some really cool stuff. Went to one recently where the owner had passed away so everything left was for sale and going inside her house was like stepping back in time to the 1950's. It was so cool. I bought two retro leather chairs in incredible condition, some kitchen items, old cigar tins etc for $30.  8)
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2212 on: October 11, 2015, 08:19:52 AM »
From a website that snarks on the Duggars (FreeJinger) a blast from the past.


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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2213 on: October 11, 2015, 10:16:06 AM »
I found that I bought the wrong turkey. I always cook my turkey from frozen and this one needed 6 days to defrost in the fridge first. Uhm...that's an issue. So went to my 24 hour grocery store and shockingly they still had turkeys there. Got the proper one which is now in the oven. Will save the other for christmas.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2214 on: October 13, 2015, 08:41:54 AM »
24" LED TV with a busted screen.

Can't believe how light they are.

I can pick the whole TV up with one finger if I wanted to.

I've been wanting to pop the back off of one of these.  :zoinks:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2215 on: October 13, 2015, 09:03:21 AM »
Beautiful exquisitely soft short cardigan. Has a kind of Jane Austen vibe in looks, when it comes to colour, shape and drape. It has been approved and claimed by the oldest.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2216 on: October 13, 2015, 11:51:19 AM »
A bunch of books to take with me to read on our soon travels to Florida for some much needed R&R and serious veg out on the beach time.   8)
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2217 on: October 14, 2015, 11:00:24 AM »
Not today but yesterday ten one dollar bills and probably $20 in change  while cleaning out my van,  mainly in the center console where I put receipts
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2218 on: October 15, 2015, 11:43:10 AM »
Quote from: Parts on October 14, 2015, 11:00:24 AM
ten one dollar bills

Time to hit the strip club

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2219 on: October 16, 2015, 03:32:53 AM »
Rock-hound invading my house  :P

I once let kids here hear a link he posted on DD (The late forum, not the man). Now they seem to know everything from Tom Lehrer by heart now. My external tapeworm of the day was sponsored by the effort of rock-hound.
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