Friday was a hot and miserable day, I think it was over 90 for the majority of the day, but it was probably my last Friday to go garage saling this season (or at least for the next 10 weeks) so I had to go. In the end, the only thing I came home with was a wheelbarrow I picked up in the trash. It's actually in good shape, but not something I needed.

Luckily Saturday was a little better, although just as hot.

We started out by going to a somewhat large community sale, I didn't find much but my dad got some stuff.
The only thing I brought home was this:
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It's complete, even has 3 extra plastic dots (yes, I counted all 71 of them) paid $0.25 for it. It actually came from a Sportsman's club I didn't know existed and I might end up joining because it was pretty nice.

Some other boring stuff:
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Paid $1 for it.
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Just 2 more reasons I should get an Xbox. Paid $0.60 total, both CIB. I would have offered $0.50 for both but it was a kid selling them and he had them priced so cheaply anyway. And they're in really good shape for kid-owned games.

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The joysticks were marked $1 each, so I offered $1 for both, she accepted and then asked if I had seen the game in the garage. I told her that I did but wasn't interested in it but she told me I could have it and actually insisted I take it. It had a $2 sticker on it but was marked down to $0.25.

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The controllers are just about garbage unfortunately, they both have the grips on the sticks ripped off and the sticks are loose on both, one so badly that it really doesn't work. The system powers on and the game plays but the controller ports don't seem to work. The only good thing is that it has the digital video output (those are still in demand, right?) and it was $5 for it all.

Today was a good day at the flea market, despite the fact that the indoors part of it burned down Thursday afternoon. And damn, it was burnt all the way down, the only thing left of the 80-something year old building were the bent and twisted steel girders. In the end of the building where the fire started you could see some any of the metal stuff inside that hadn't moved,  like the metal shelving, washers & driers, it was kind of creepy looking actually. They even had security guards posted around the remains to keep people from stealing the scrap metal!

Anyway, what I brought home:
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The SEALED Game Boy Rechargeable Battery Pack/ AC Adapter was $5. This is now the 4th sealed GB accessory I own, I wonder where they're coming from and why I can't find any sealed NES stuff. The Super Mario Galaxy (CIB) was $25, I'm very excited for that because I was going to get it for $40 at GameStop sometime this week.

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The woman selling this stuff wanted $3 each but said she'd give a better price if I got a lot of stuff, so I made up my own little pile of Genesis games and asked for a price, she was thinking about it, so I offered $10 and then she said $8 at almost the same time. So I picked up the PS1 game and  gave her $10. She had a Japanese Soul Calibur II for GameCube also and I thought about buying it but I've got no way to play it so I didn't and I'm not sure if it was her or another guy looking, but one of them had really bad BO and I had to get out of there.

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