20120603 - yardsale booty - z - fresh rosemary, inflatable camping bed - IMG_4351
We had just run out of rosemary (which seems to last a decade), and these French people were selling huge bottles of fresh rosemary from their garden. SLACK! Win! $5.00 was a good price. Weighted it on a digital scale: It was 184 grams. At Giant prices, that's $88.85 of rosemary! The Parmesian-cheese jar it came in was repurosed (plastic lids suck); the Rosemary thusly moved into proper, metal-lidded, glass jars.
The self-inflating sleeping pad was a steal. The yuppies bought a $90 sleeping pad, decided it wasn't good enough, upgraded, then sold us the $90 for $2? Let's profit on your rampant consumerism! I'll sleep extra well knowing somebody else paid for it! What I want to know is... How much was the upgraded pad, if the $90 wasn't good enough? These people don't seem like campers as much as people who like to protect the image of being campers and talk about it like some kind of consumerist trend, discussing the awesomeness of their overpriced camping gear as "shop talk". Judging.
Meanwhile, for $1, we bought a $15.45 wireless USB adaptor, just in case Carolyn needs it for her non-wifi old laptop. It could come in handy someday, assuming it works.
rosemary, sleeping inflatable mat, wireless adapter.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 3, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
... Read my yard sale-related blogposts at clintjcl.wordpress.com/category/yard-sales/
BACKSTORY: Full report of this yard sale expedition can be found at: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/journal-yard-sales-2012...
But in summary: 6hr33min trip of 69.1mi spending $93.32 on gas & 75 purchases worth $826.40. $126.17/hr saved.
20120603 - yardsale booty - z - fresh rosemary, inflatable camping bed - IMG_4351
We had just run out of rosemary (which seems to last a decade), and these French people were selling huge bottles of fresh rosemary from their garden. SLACK! Win! $5.00 was a good price. Weighted it on a digital scale: It was 184 grams. At Giant prices, that's $88.85 of rosemary! The Parmesian-cheese jar it came in was repurosed (plastic lids suck); the Rosemary thusly moved into proper, metal-lidded, glass jars.
The self-inflating sleeping pad was a steal. The yuppies bought a $90 sleeping pad, decided it wasn't good enough, upgraded, then sold us the $90 for $2? Let's profit on your rampant consumerism! I'll sleep extra well knowing somebody else paid for it! What I want to know is... How much was the upgraded pad, if the $90 wasn't good enough? These people don't seem like campers as much as people who like to protect the image of being campers and talk about it like some kind of consumerist trend, discussing the awesomeness of their overpriced camping gear as "shop talk". Judging.
Meanwhile, for $1, we bought a $15.45 wireless USB adaptor, just in case Carolyn needs it for her non-wifi old laptop. It could come in handy someday, assuming it works.
rosemary, sleeping inflatable mat, wireless adapter.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 3, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
... Read my yard sale-related blogposts at clintjcl.wordpress.com/category/yard-sales/
BACKSTORY: Full report of this yard sale expedition can be found at: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/journal-yard-sales-2012...
But in summary: 6hr33min trip of 69.1mi spending $93.32 on gas & 75 purchases worth $826.40. $126.17/hr saved.