Good stuff cheap!
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oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
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I buy from my local auction. I keep getting bargains by sticking to my pre-set limits when bidding.
In the last couple of years I have bought, including buyer's commission at 10%:
Two Parker Knoll armchairs in perfect condition for £5.50 the pair.
Three guitars for my grandchildren; one full size classical £6.60; one half size £5.50; and last week one three-quarter size for £4.40. My grandson's guitar teacher is jealous.
Two reclining armchairs operated manually at £5 each. A set of four chairs and a dining table for £3.30; three Dyson vacuum cleaners at £3.30 each; four dozen pianola rolls at £6.60 (don't ask why!); three televisions and four computer monitors for £3.30 in total - one TV and one monitor didn't work but I am using the wide-screen monitor now...
Some time ago I bought a jardiniere with garish decoration:
(Metre long rule in background.)
That jardiniere is now in another Litster's house.
In the last couple of years I have bought, including buyer's commission at 10%:
Two Parker Knoll armchairs in perfect condition for £5.50 the pair.
Three guitars for my grandchildren; one full size classical £6.60; one half size £5.50; and last week one three-quarter size for £4.40. My grandson's guitar teacher is jealous.
Two reclining armchairs operated manually at £5 each. A set of four chairs and a dining table for £3.30; three Dyson vacuum cleaners at £3.30 each; four dozen pianola rolls at £6.60 (don't ask why!); three televisions and four computer monitors for £3.30 in total - one TV and one monitor didn't work but I am using the wide-screen monitor now...
Some time ago I bought a jardiniere with garish decoration:
(Metre long rule in background.)
That jardiniere is now in another Litster's house.
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Hypoxia
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No local auctions up here in my remote mountain hamlet and none down in the county seat a half-hour away. Shopping deals (ha!) are either there or a couple hours away around the capitols of two states. Luckily my district is near the bottom for cost-of-living in California. But I'm reminded of this song:
TALKING SOCIALIST ANTI-UNDERTAKER BLUES
Now I'm just a plain old country hick,
And I don't mean to make you sick,
But I got a few words that I'd like to say.
It's about this undertaker man
Who told me that he had a plan
To put me in the ground on Lay-A-Way.
Well it all started couple year ago
When I met this doctor in O-Hi-O
Who told me that I really had it bad.
He said, "Son, your veins is turning blue
And emphysema is a-killing you."
And said, at most, three months is all I had.
Now friends as you can plainly see,
That scared the HELL right outa' me
And for a month or so I really had the blues.
Then one fine day I took a look
And sure enough in my phone book
I saw this sign that says, "Come in and Choose."
"Joe's Undertaker's ..We have lots
Of coffins, grass, and burial plots,
We fix faces back the way they came.
Formaldehyde and alcohol
We'll pickle you, one and all
Black or white, to us you're all the same."
So I went in and sat right down
And pretty soon this man came 'round
Said he'd like to take some measurements.
So I looks at him and says, "Okay."
He starts to measurin' right away,
Measures up sixty-three hundred dollars and nineteen cents!
Now friends, as you can plainly see,
I'm as healthy as any boy could be.
And that doctor, he just sits and wonders why.
So I look at him and I say, "Doc,"
"I know this comes as quite a shock,
But the truth is, I just can't afford to die!"
Stay healthy, hey?Now I'm just a plain old country hick,
And I don't mean to make you sick,
But I got a few words that I'd like to say.
It's about this undertaker man
Who told me that he had a plan
To put me in the ground on Lay-A-Way.
Well it all started couple year ago
When I met this doctor in O-Hi-O
Who told me that I really had it bad.
He said, "Son, your veins is turning blue
And emphysema is a-killing you."
And said, at most, three months is all I had.
Now friends as you can plainly see,
That scared the HELL right outa' me
And for a month or so I really had the blues.
Then one fine day I took a look
And sure enough in my phone book
I saw this sign that says, "Come in and Choose."
"Joe's Undertaker's ..We have lots
Of coffins, grass, and burial plots,
We fix faces back the way they came.
Formaldehyde and alcohol
We'll pickle you, one and all
Black or white, to us you're all the same."
So I went in and sat right down
And pretty soon this man came 'round
Said he'd like to take some measurements.
So I looks at him and says, "Okay."
He starts to measurin' right away,
Measures up sixty-three hundred dollars and nineteen cents!
Now friends, as you can plainly see,
I'm as healthy as any boy could be.
And that doctor, he just sits and wonders why.
So I look at him and I say, "Doc,"
"I know this comes as quite a shock,
But the truth is, I just can't afford to die!"
