Saturday, August 23, 2008

Saturday Thrift and Yard Sale fun...

I drove around with the kids and Joe (Felice's dad) today and hit a few yard sales, Goodwill and the Habitat for Humanity building materials surplus store...We didn't get much, but I think I did alright.

I thought it was just one of those grabbers for picking up stuff you can't reach. Turns out it's a Gentle Giant snake tong...$1.00 for a $79.00 tool! I may clean it up and put it on Ebay if I ever have the time. Or take up snake wrangling.

I bought three tools at the Habitat store. An old Thorsen 3/8" ratchet for 50 cents (just needed a squirt of oil to loosen the mechanism), A Mightyvac vacuum pump (works) for $3.50 and an old, small, Indestro torque wrench for $1.00.

I bought it just on principle...

1 comment:

industrialpoppy said...

I love old tools. They seem to carry with them stories of projects complete and abandoned, and I can't help but hope that the years of experience that has passed through them will somehow rub off on me.