Sunday, September 16, 2012

Place graf

     When i went to a flea market in Colorado it astounded me how people could just clean out a basement of junk and make money off it. When i was walking around i found a very nice shop that had swords and knifes. When i got my fill of the weapon shop i went to the shop next door and my jaw dropped. It looked like a tornado went through a trailer park and just had everything thrown all over the place. Most of the items he had i couldn't even tell what they were. The thing that boggled my mind was not the mess it was the simple fact that people were buying trash for money. There was a broken army children set that had sharp edges from where it was stepped on. Someone grabbed it and said "how much for this awesome toy?" All i have to say is that man was making money off of nothing and trash and it baffled me. There were a mixture of nice shops and tornado shops as i started to call them. To this day im still at awe that it even happened and i witnessed it.

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  1. I've been to huge flea markets in California--one spread out on an old Air Force base runway that must have been a mile long and a half mile wide--and like you say, an amazing mixture of items that belong in a landfill and some nice stuff too. I found a good old time fountain pen in working order and a half-dozen neckties from the 1930s with amazing fabric and styling....

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