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multigraincracker

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5. Good time to buy. Terrible time to sell.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 03:45 PM
Jan 2025

I follow the markets on resale items and now is the not the time for me. Hot items are newer(to me) toys and games I have no interest in.
Watches, typewriters and advertising are still selling.
I get up very early in the morning on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to hit the yard and garage sales. Being first is a must. I was looking for vintage telephones, but that market is gone now too.
I still find goodies all the time. I sell for way under “market value” and trilled with the quick sale. PRICE SELLS. Keeps me busy and having fun. Love talking to strangers, goes with my ADHD. Sell on Marketplace and Graigslist. I’d set up at flea markets, but can’t stand the bargaining game. I have the lowest price and I have to tell them, if you can find it cheaper, buy it. When they lowball me I go way up and will not come down to the asking price. That’s just me.
When the weather gets better I’ll be out there. I shoot for breaking even, just fun to do it.
I have been buying all the cheap matchbooks I see. They use to be free. They have no longer been around for a long time. If you look on eBay they ask crazy prices and few sale for it. I think they’ll go up if I wait long enough. I’ve bought them dirt cheap.
Might just be me, but I’ve found mall owners to be some of the worse folks in the world. Megalomaniacs.
I’m still having fun.

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