Yard Sales, Flea Markets and Antique shops 2021

[Aragorn243]

I go weeks without finding anything and then hit the jackpot. Not that today's haul was rare but it certainly was cheap.

Keep seeing signs for this garage sale but I can't find it because they only put a sign up at the main street in the development with no further directions and there are streets going off all over the place. I almost gave up but finally found it. Guy has a table with relatively modern stuff on it, one being a flak jacket. So I asked price. $2. For a complete good condition flak jacket. Next item is pair of rain pants in universal camo. They look like they would fit and there's a jacket underneath. How much? $1. By this time I'm thinking the guy is either nuts or really wants to get rid of this stuff bad. Desert boots I didn't need so I passed them up. Final item, brand new in the package rifle cleaning kit for an M-16. $1.

Brought the stuff home, Flak jacket won't go around my stomach so so much for wearing it but I have the desert camo for it already so it will be a display item. The rain suit jacket still has the tag on it, fits perfectly and is Gore Tex. I've been wanting one of these for 20 years but wasn't going to pay $100 for one. The pants are also Gore Tex and may have been worn once.

Only other thing I saw today was a badly dented 1942 canteen in a dirty cover and missing the cup for $50. I passed on that, if it had been at the same sale, I probably would have gotten that for $1. Guy told me he didn't have change. OK.