Yard Sale Warriors

This past Saturday, we got up at 9 to do something incredibly stupid/awesome: Go to yard sales all day.

We are...

The yard sale warriors.

yes, Jesse is horribly photoshopped in

Rich knew about a legendary 50 family yard sale jam where every house within a few miles that had garbage in it put it out for sale. We hit it up, hard. 

For like 6 hours. 

Good look?

I got to watch people go from "You know, I kind of want this DVD, but its $2 and I could probably get it for $1.50 somewhere else" to:

"I'm gonna buy these army elbow pads." 

"Why on earth would you need elbow pads?" 

"Dude, they're 2 bucks!" 

"Yea, but still, what the hell do you need elbow pads for?" 

"DUDE, they're like 60 bucks at an army/navy store. They're only 2 bucks here!" 

It was hilarious. 

Then we went to a terrifying Flea Market in the basement of some Knights of Columbus building where the largest assortment of stinky, overpriced garbage and lunatic "salespeople" assaulted our senses and followed us around until we had to escape for the sake of survival. One guy went on and on for 10 minutes about how much bottles cost and how certain ones were worth 100 bucks but he got this deal from this guy so that it onlycost8bucksandyouwouldn'tbelievethebottlesyoucangetdowninblahblahblahblah. It was incredible and terrifying. What a find. 

Hilton in the madness (is that someone's hair?)

The scariest photograph ever

Some good food, some good buys, some incredibly stupid buys, a horrible headache, and good times. 

Here's how we did:

Tons of crap.

Jesse:

Masterpiece, Pictionary, a Wireless FM Intercom (that I'm certain won't work), 4 DVDs (one of which was the new Rambo that I'm pissed I didn't get), a fireplace gate thingie, elbow pads, and Army pants and shirt he'll never wear.

Josh:

Josh was smarter than all of us, buying only a game he used to love for 4 bucks and this sweet knife.

Hilton:

Hilton was struck hard by "dude its only 2 bucks!" fever and bought an army hat and goggles, an under armor shirt, 5 frames, a lockbox without a key (it was free), a stuffed pig, a couple of books, a bag with a cat on it, a microphone carrying case with an insanely old tape recorder or something in it, and a bottle of pure old panther piss.

I'm kind of jealous about this one, but I wasn't ready to pay 8 bucks for an empty bottle. He was.

And lastly, Rich:

Rich was also struck hard by "dude its only 2 bucks" fever, but also got the best deal of the trip- a fully functional (except for playback) video camera with extra tapes (with stuff on them hmmm), batteries, etc for 30 bucks. He also got knee pads, elbow pads, books, a globe lamp (which Hilton broke) and a wicked sweet skull mask. 

I was kind of boring and only got a small walmart bureau thing for 3 bucks (which I dropped and broke), The Ring, Disturbia and Leon 2 disc collector's edition DVDs, an xbox cable, this sweet and completely stupid and useless vase:

and this picture, which is one of the greatest, most horrifying pictures I've ever seen. A complete steal for 2 bucks, the more you look at it, the more messed up it gets. Enjoy. 

Seriously, open it up big. Right under half and half man, there are 2 definite axe murderers. 

A great day for the YARD SALE WARRIORS, and a tiring one for some.