For the first time in nearly two years, I went to the auction yesterday - ostensibly to buy paving bricks (which wound up going for too much money), but really because they had a whole bunch of stuff from a scrapbooking store that had gone out of business. I bought four lots of miscellaneous tools and elements (including one box that I got for $85 ( Read more... )

We sold the purple poof chairs! Hooray! Someone paid us $900 for the four ( Read more... )

Auction tomorrow. I’m not planning on going, but I still do like to review the catalog and see if there’s anything that would change my mind ( Read more... )

Auction today ( Read more... )

Brief auction today - we were actually done by noon, which has never happened before ( Read more... )

Whoa. That printer? The "plotter" I mentioned the auction has ( Read more... )

Auction tomorrow. For the first time, I was able to go to the previews today ( Read more... )

Auction yesterday. We hadn't been in a while, but they had some pool equipment and lots of Christmas decorations, so we decided to wander off ( Read more... )

Way back when, the very first time Joe and I went to the auction (nearly two years ago, now), we came home with an HP ColorLaserJet 4500 DN printer. When I worked at Amex, we had one just like it - which we paid more than $3000 for at the time. It was a fantastic printer, and one of my lesser sorrows of leaving Amex was that I would no longer ( Read more... )

Still bored. Auction tomorrow - I need to check out the catalog and see if there's anything worth having. I did see in the pictures that they're selling a Sony 53" TV that is identical to the one we have. I found that amusing. Problem is you need a $200 cash deposit to bid. I don't actually think we have that much cash in our account, alas. ( Read more... )