Treasure along the roadside.

[FLauthor]

Thursday i was driving through my neighbor when I saw a huge stainless steel grill set out by the roadside. I checked the grill out and found it was in perfect shape just needed a cleaning. I inquired to the owner who told me it was mine as he'd bought a new Weber Grill and had no need for the old one. I'm still nursing a broken foot so I pushed it across the street to a neighbor I knew and kept it there. Placed an ad in Craigslist and straight away sold it to a fellow for $55.00. He came by at Noon Saturday and I helped him load it up. He was ecstatic to have found such a treasure and I came away $55.00 richer and kept something out of the landfill .

 

[mlayers]

I also go around and find stuff that others are throwing out. I take home cleanup work on it some and then turn around a sell it. So you did alright......Matt

 

[Iron Patch]

Jeeze man, you had to push it all the way across the street for a measly $55.

 

[JP]

Congrats on finding $55

A buyer at a garage sale we had a few years ago told me about how he drives around the neighborhoods around trash day looking for items that people throw out that he can sell. He told me he made more at that than working a full time job. Apparently lawn mowers and grills were his two biggest items.

 

[Iron Patch]

Congrats on finding $55

A buyer at a garage sale we had a few years ago told me about how he drives around the neighborhoods around trash day looking for items that people throw out that he can sell. He told me he made more at that than working a full time job. Apparently lawn mowers and grills were his two biggest items.

You made me think of what a friend of mine found.

He was on his way home from work and spotted a suitcase and thought it would make a decent detector travel bag. He then decided not, drove a little more, but figured why not and rushed back to barely beat the trash collector. Once he got home he discovered it was an authentic Louis Vuitton and two weeks later I sold it for him for $300.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Seeing how that is a $1000.00 Grill new, I'd say everyone is making out on this one !

Great Job !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[hikeinmts]

and they - the pubic.....uh, public.....calls us treasure hunters, "crazy." That sure is the pot callin the kettle black.