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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2760 on: May 28, 2018, 10:57:35 PM »
Cut the lawn aka the weeds.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2761 on: May 29, 2018, 09:26:02 PM »
Huge monster $$$ of a house that's been on the market since taxes went up sold just a little while back, added it to my route just in case.

...and they've been tossing stuff left and right.

Latest is a beautiful, thick, plush, heavy as f*ck, 12 x 9 rug with a leaf design in gold, tan, brown, and a steely blue. Gave it a once over light cleaning last night (it's like new).

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2762 on: May 29, 2018, 09:51:31 PM »
Huge monster $$$ of a house that's been on the market since taxes went up sold just a little while back, added it to my route just in case.

...and they've been tossing stuff left and right.

Latest is a beautiful, thick, plush, heavy as f*ck, 12 x 9 rug with a leaf design in gold, tan, brown, and a steely blue. Gave it a once over light cleaning last night (it's like new).

Sounds awesome!  I love to watch auctions, foreclosures, estate sales, etc. Been a while since I went.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2763 on: June 05, 2018, 02:03:03 PM »
Huge monster $$$ of a house that's been on the market since taxes went up sold just a little while back, added it to my route just in case.

...and they've been tossing stuff left and right.

Latest is a beautiful, thick, plush, heavy as f*ck, 12 x 9 rug with a leaf design in gold, tan, brown, and a steely blue. Gave it a once over light cleaning last night (it's like new).

Sounds awesome!  I love to watch auctions, foreclosures, estate sales, etc. Been a while since I went.
Keep watch for tube electronics and cast iron cookware!

I saw some nice tube stuff a couple weeks ago at an estate sale but they knew it was good though not as good as they seemed to think. 

Today I picked up a couple clamps and some flower pots at the condos that are having spring clean up
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2764 on: June 05, 2018, 04:51:53 PM »
I found a 20p coin dropped on the pavement on the way walking back home from a trip to the shops to buy a large bag of various cold beverages and snacks. Of course I had just spent much more, but hey, its money turning up and me nearly tripping over my shoelaces to find it staring right there at me as I bent to tie them.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2765 on: June 06, 2018, 01:49:00 AM »
FINALLY!

I found my gassing taps! I've been looking for them everywhere. But, you know what its like hunting for something...if you find it, its always in the very last place you look :autism:

They aren't anything complicated. But they are extremely useful little items to have, for whenever one wishes to bubble a gas generated in a one flask into a liquid residing in another one, or pass gas (yeah, I've seen that one coming already) through solids or finely divided something or other. Its basically similar to a stopper, in length, only it has a hose barb on the side, like the type used for connections in vacuum rigs, and a larger hole at the top to plug it up or otherwise, say, fit a drying trap or some other contraption, an addition funnel or what have ye'.

The addition funnel goes on the top, the bottom of the tap goes into the flask full of one of the chemicals used to  prepare the gas, while the funnel dispenses the other one (or mixture of course if applicable) and the gas comes out of the side, through the hose barb connection and goes wherever the tubing and whatever might be stuck on/in/up it, goes, be it a flask, a beaker, or a roadkilled badger's rotting chocolate starfish :P Finally found the set of taps in a polystyrene hinged little box, where they'd been hidden under some graphite electrodes of various types.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2766 on: June 19, 2018, 05:29:32 PM »
Still cleaning up the metal junk buried in my yard today it was bits of aluminum siding, bolts and nails
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2767 on: June 21, 2018, 04:16:40 PM »
In the ground where I park my trailer a toy car from the 60's, a dime and various small pieces of metal
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2768 on: June 21, 2018, 06:03:49 PM »
In the ground where I park my trailer a toy car from the 60's, a dime and various small pieces of metal

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Found a mercury dime at the old house.

I used to find marbles while planting flowers.
If they ever make a detector that can find marbles I'm in. I love finding marbles.

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2769 on: June 21, 2018, 06:42:10 PM »
I found a quarter.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2770 on: June 22, 2018, 09:48:34 PM »
Today it was chisels found 9 at a tag sale for $2 each 
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2771 on: June 25, 2018, 10:59:59 AM »
I've found marbles myself for some reason. As well as (somewhat battered and presumably originally painted) a little model plane made out of lead. Must be quite old, for a child's toy to have been cast in solid lead.

Found? well I haven't left the house other than to throw things in the outside bin today. But I did just find one of the little long-stemmed glass funnels (with the funnel about 3 inches across from edge to edge at the widest point), that I'll need for some  chemistry things I have to be doing later.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2772 on: June 30, 2018, 09:24:53 PM »
A Nintendo reboot from a couple of years ago. They finally got more out on the market, so I grabbed one when I saw it. Already had the SNES reboot from last Fall.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2773 on: July 01, 2018, 10:36:32 AM »
Coffee, hot.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2774 on: July 01, 2018, 08:28:52 PM »
Not my find unfortunately, but had to share...this was posted elsewhere.



You're looking at a dumpster full of mid-century modern Herman Miller chair shells.

Around 127 of them...picked (with permission) and resold for a cool $10,000.

Worst part about this is I bet they were complete chairs and the clean out company scrapped the legs not knowing what the hell they had.