Yard Sales, Flea Markets and Antique Shops 2023

[Aragorn243]

We went to the local Farmers/Flea Market yesterday as it's the last time I'm really able to go for about three months as my rifle coaching starts next Friday. There is a little antique shop there and outside vendors that I occasionally pick some things up from but nothing this week. My wife likes the auction, I usually don't because it's mostly a junk auction but again, occasionally they have something. This week I found a box of books under the table. Mostly tanks of WWII so I figured I'd sit and see if I could get them as the one tank book on German Panthers was a $45 book used on Amazon. The same lot grouping had a bunch of models which I wasn't super interested in because they were the wrong scale and/or mostly helicopters. The wife decides to go get food and while she's gone they get to the lot grouping with the books. Models get sold, no one is bidding on them, books come up I get the box for $1. They just keep bringing the models back and I have them piled on both chairs beside me and on the floor and I'm laughing to myself because I know what my wife will say when she gets back, and she doesn't fail me. First thing was "I knew I shouldn't have left you alone" and then the expected "how much did you spend for all of this." I wasn't really sure because it was pretty rapid fire and at the end the auctioneer would just look at me and say $1 and I'd nod and it was over, but once she got back and could guard this hoard I went to pay. With bidders' fees and taxes, I paid $18 for 17 model kits and a box of books on WWII tanks. There were two additional models of tanks which turned out to be missing most of the parts but the other 17 are all there. There was also a nice magazine ad for WWII War Bonds I might just frame.