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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C G Memminger, post: 2649665, member: 71506&quot;]Love it Mailman!&nbsp; Was once assigned job of flying to distant location to pick up car and drive it back to new owner (heir of deceased owner).&nbsp; I was instructed to load certain personal items in car, AND permitted to load car anything I found in house and wanted in the large already-picked-over home.&nbsp; Family figured I was doing them a favor, and reducing their hassle of dumpster/estate sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Smile!&nbsp; TREASURE HUNT ENSUED! [warning: small payoff, but satisfying].</p><p><br /></p><p>In a shoebox, I found some worthless golf spikes--with an old sock stuffed inside.&nbsp; Maybe 30 inconsequential IHPs and 50 low-value Wheaties------and a poor grade 1891-CC Morgan!!&nbsp; Ok.&nbsp; Ok.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll fetch $50 for this dog, but I found it!!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>Kept digging.&nbsp; Packed up 40-piece set of plates, bowls, serving items, etc., which were far nicer than crummy stuff in my kitchen.&nbsp; Yay! But had to ignore dining table and chairs, living room furniture, lamps.....toms of cooler stuff than you would find in my house. Sigh.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Booze was gone, though I did find one bottle of red wine, which fueled me to keep sniffing!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Into bedroom, I found an office set-up, with several cool items better than mine!&nbsp; Yay! Cordless mouse and keyboard set-up!!&nbsp; Upgrade.&nbsp; Much better monitor for my desktop!&nbsp; 2 reams of new printer paper, plus hundreds of useful office gizmos and supplies!!&nbsp; Small finds, but would save me hundreds of dollars in expenses over 2-3 years...</p><p><br /></p><p>Into another room with bookshelves full.&nbsp; Grabbed a couple titles of interest to me.&nbsp; Kept sniffing, pulling books, flipping pages, looking for $20 bills hiding between pages (well, I had 12 hours of darkness before I needed to head home).&nbsp; Nothing, nothing, nothing, SOMETHING.&nbsp; A hollowed-out book with a hidden compartment for hiding small items.&nbsp; Did I find 5 straps of honey bees?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; I found 5 Jacksons!&nbsp; $100. Yeah baby! Another glass of wine! </p><p><br /></p><p>Then to basement.&nbsp; Oh God.&nbsp; A lot of nice stuff, for which I had no time to monetize.&nbsp; Had to pass on nice golf clubs, nice furniture, a ton of sewing gear, supplies and eqpt, 1000 LP albums (these are red hot today), 1970s stereo set, fans, space heaters..more cookware, flatware, stemware, china.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Basement exceptions.&nbsp; The sterling flatware had long before been identified and taken by family.&nbsp; But they missed sOme weighted sterling candle holders (about 12 of them, most small, but 2 monsters), Some sterling rimmed coasters, and a 120+ piece set of silverplate Flatware, which Were way better better than the forks in my kitchen. Turned out these were top-knotch plate, and 10 yrs later, I sold them, for $100 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>A worthwhile venture, IMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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