billjustbill
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We had a health issue rear it's ugly head this past year, so selling our garage sale inventory at our own garage sale didn't happen.
With winter coming, we rented a storage bay to store all our "treasures" and while dumping some dust, dirt, and screws left on the bay's floor into the facilities dumpster, I found "good stuff".....
The dumpster was filled to the top with large collapsed cardboard boxes. As I looked for a space to toss a garbage bag of the clean-out dirt, I found a Mongoose bicycle lying flatways in between the top layers of cardboard! It has "IBOC" on the aluminum frame and "Strike" on the suspension front forks. It has 21 speeds! The tires were still holding air! Any ideas as to date or value would be appreciated.
Since then, from the same dumpster in a "Bekins" moving clothes box that had a metal bar hanging rail came an almost mint dark blue Levi "Big E" Trucker's denim jacket, size 44, a folded unstained handmade quilt with a second completed quilt-top pattern cover ready to be sewn to a quilting backing. Other days I've found a pair of antique faceted clear glass doorknobs mounted on their old threaded connecting stem, a size 44 black leather vest made in Pakistan, a few pieces of costume jewelry, and an glass framed and sealed Windberg print. I went and got my wife to come back and look at some old baby clothes and still boxed baby gifts from the 1960's and also found a 16" thick frosted glass serving platter with "Neiman Marcus" tastefully pressed into the glass pattern. Just for the adventure, I went back yesterday and dug out a stun gun....
....And all of this is FREE...
With winter coming, we rented a storage bay to store all our "treasures" and while dumping some dust, dirt, and screws left on the bay's floor into the facilities dumpster, I found "good stuff".....
The dumpster was filled to the top with large collapsed cardboard boxes. As I looked for a space to toss a garbage bag of the clean-out dirt, I found a Mongoose bicycle lying flatways in between the top layers of cardboard! It has "IBOC" on the aluminum frame and "Strike" on the suspension front forks. It has 21 speeds! The tires were still holding air! Any ideas as to date or value would be appreciated.
Since then, from the same dumpster in a "Bekins" moving clothes box that had a metal bar hanging rail came an almost mint dark blue Levi "Big E" Trucker's denim jacket, size 44, a folded unstained handmade quilt with a second completed quilt-top pattern cover ready to be sewn to a quilting backing. Other days I've found a pair of antique faceted clear glass doorknobs mounted on their old threaded connecting stem, a size 44 black leather vest made in Pakistan, a few pieces of costume jewelry, and an glass framed and sealed Windberg print. I went and got my wife to come back and look at some old baby clothes and still boxed baby gifts from the 1960's and also found a 16" thick frosted glass serving platter with "Neiman Marcus" tastefully pressed into the glass pattern. Just for the adventure, I went back yesterday and dug out a stun gun....
....And all of this is FREE...
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