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Went to lunch and walked past the little antique store downtown when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a SS Aladdin lamp. Having just bought a couple recently, I was familiar with the pricing so when I saw $65 on the tag I snagged it!

I need to start trolling the flea markets and antique stores again for pickling crocks & other "old timey" equipment.

What's your latest score???

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i picked up a red wing pottery art peice for seventy-five cents the other day. i could sell it at a red wing conference or on ebay for about $150 in 2 seconds.

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Dude! That rocks! I have a small pottery collection... all pieces picked up for fractions of the current costs. I'm actually considering selling them because I just don't have space to display them where the cats won't break them.

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what do you collect? i have mostly red wing but also some van briggle and rookwood...

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Many many 7.4 oz packs of tuna for a buck a pop.
Already mentioned it on another thread.....but wuz peein' alone in the wind as always.......

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Chad, I have mostly McCoy pieces... nothing really valuable, but a couple I like a lot.

Hypervel, that's a dealio on the tuna. I'll have to check the oz., but I got some in packets a few weeks ago for the same price at Big Lots. I loves me some food deals at Big Lots! I really love when they get the odd items in that are things the locals don't really buy like German Saurkraut and Asian food items. I always buy bunches.

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Depends on the weight, 92.5% pure silver....

+1 for alladin, although I don't think you'd be putting fuel in it, aren't those usually brass?

Edit2: You didn't mean stainless steel, did you? I assumed sterling silver!

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I went to the antique store the other day and came out with an avocado green dial phone. Had to be a 70's model! Had the lady make sure it worked. Now its in my house and I dont feel like someone is listening to my every word! I need to go back and get the yellow phone they had and put it in my shop! The overall sound quality is excellent compared to the new phones today!

I was all excited! The sales lady thought I was nuts! Best 15.00 I have spent in a long time.

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I had a household appliance score today...I was looking around at a local thrift store and chatting with the manager when she mention a vacuum that had just been donated, I glance over and it was a Rainbow vac. I asked her what she wanted for it and she said didn't know what to price it at, and asked me what I'd pay for it. I said no, you give me a price and I'll decide if I want it...she said how about $20. I responded that I'll take it.

It turns out that the vacuum is complete with every attachment, including some optional accessories, and looks new... with all manuals and a copy of the original receipt...cost on March 13, 2000, $1662.58.

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The new ones are $185 without the glass chimney.

This one: http://www.aladdinlamps.com/lamps/vi...?idProduct=251

It's older as the chimney has etched lettering instead of printed and its got a couple of small dent, but we took it apart and everything is in working order with the exception of it needing a mantle.

:biggrin:

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Doh!!! How does it work?? I'm always scared to buy anything electric.

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One of the djs on Sirius was talking about the old phones the other day... and how they were so well built and most of them by the phone company who you just rented them from. Anytime you got into a spousal fight, the phone would get torn out of the wall and thrown... and then you'd just pick it up and plug it back in again and it worked!

I had to laugh because they were right... you just couldn't kill those old rotary dial phones.

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I went into a thrift shop last week looking for some big wicker baskets that my feral cats could sleep in, and I found an old ice cream maker for $4.99! It's a Proctor Silex with a heavy electric motor that says "Made in USA 1975" on it. It was dusty, but otherwise it looked new and had all the parts, and also some cardboard bits that may have been part of the original packaging. I tested it in the store, and it worked. I've already made one batch of nice vanilla ice cream, and it works great. It even has auto-shutoff.

It was an uncanny coincidence, since just the night before I found it, I was complaining about how most (all?) store-bought ice cream has HFCS, and that the 1.5 qt. containers are too small for our family. I'm done with that stuff!

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The cool thing about the older rotary and pushbutton phones is that whether you have power to your house or not, they always work. That's because their power is supplied by Ma Bell through the phone line itself, not your home electric plugs.

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People found that out during the Blackout of NYC

Only phones that worked were landlines and hardwired payphones.

Cells went dead as soon and the backup power went.

The reason I remeber so well was because I saw a article at the time talking about "10 things set to disappear" and house phones was one of them. Shot that theroy down mighty quick.

T

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Works perfect. These vacuums are sold by in home demonstrations and the big sales hype trick is to go over your floors (especially on carpet) with a clean tank of water and when done they show you nasty tank of dirty water from what you thought was a reasonably clean floor. This must be especially effective with women who take a lot of pride in their homes and housekeeping.

These things are fairly heavy and cumbersome, and after the sale a lot of women find them difficult to use (you have to clean the tank after every use)...and hard to haul up stairs. I think the woman that owned this one was not happy after the purchase, because I found copies of reviews of different vacuums and she circled all the negative reviews on Rainbows. I don't think she used it more than a couple of times...there is no wear or scuffs or residues. Some of the accessories are still in the original packaging. I'm sure there is a unhappy story connected to it.

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I was there - Absolutely true.
Still have an old rotary in the attic- just in case.

ST