RE:RE:RE:RE:EV Math and Digital Cameras
Experienced wrote: treehill...
From time to time we a cleanup in the basement or my wife buys some new furniture. Each week that we put out the garbage, there are people who come around and go through the garbage and take things. So my definition of true junk is when we put something out and nobody takes it...lol
Funny story..
A number of years ago we used to keep a whole bunch of used furniture and appliances etc in a corner of the basement so when the kids would go to university they could take things needed for their apartments. When my youngest was finishing high school (being the youngest of four) the stuff had been pretty much picked over and he decided that he didn't want/need any of it.
I tried to give what was left to the Salvation Army. They came and decided that they didn't want any of it. So my son and I humped it all from the basement to the curb on garbage day.
A couple hours later my son was getting ready to go to an afternoon class and asked if I could give him a ride to school since due to all the stuff at the end of driveway he couldn't get his car out. I said sure and he said Ok give me 15 while I take a shower first.
After the shower we went out to get my car and all the stuff was gone. Somebody had driven a truck up to our place and loaded all that sheet onto their truck!!
Sooo..I guess it wasn't junk after all!!!
One man's junk is another man's treasure!!!
Speaking of stuff that's junk that turns out to be worth a lot
Back in the day I had a little scotch collection. Just had the bottles sitting around unopened.
15-18 years ago back in the young dumb days I was flying back from a trip chasing the ever important V.
I can't remember the airport but a 25th anniversary bottle of Macallan scotch in a wooden box was calling my name at the duty free liquor store. Scotch tastes like diesel but the wooden box was cool. 230us later it was mine.
So it's languishing above my parents bar for the last 15 years or so and I notice there a market for scotch's.
I find an auction house in the UK that's interested in auctioning it off. I figure what the heck. I don't drink the stuff.
That unopened bottle sold for 2700 or 2800 hundred pounds. Think I got a wire transfer for 4200 canadain....
Guess people pay a pretty penny for diesel fuel