Definition of a good Saturday...free money, cheap auction buys...

[Gremlingts@xxxx]

 Well, it couldn't have started off better for me this Saturday morning! 
Had planned on going to an auction early, but got a later start than I wanted 
to. Left the house at 1/4 to 9, drove to the corner, turned it, and then 
notice a flurry of paper blowing down the street...sayyyyyyyyyy, doesn't that 
look like MONEY!? I hit the brakes, threw the truck into park , hit the 
emergency lights, and my girlfriend and I jumped out to pursue the errant 
paper bits...wow, it's $20 bills! We rounded up 6, with a lady in an old Ford 
Maverick ahead of us stopping to do the same...I don't think she got as much 
as I did, I got $100, the girlfriend got $20, so I shared equally with her. 
Then as the lady up front pulled away, we noticed another bill that was under 
the spot she just left, so we got that one, and made the total $140...if we'd 
have left a few minutes earlier or later, we'd have missed the "Blessed 
Event"! No one came back looking for any money, there were Home Depot 
receipts mixed in with the money, so they must have had it all on the 
dashboard or something stupid and it blew out the window. Oh well! We kept 
going, and bought alot of stuff at the auction...I spent $44, she spent $38, 
not bad for a free paid day at the auction! Got some good stuff really cheap, 
I wanted an old Lionel "O" Gauge train, but that went rather high, at $270 
for a decent blue 40's or '50's tinplate train that had snake-jointed cars. I 
went to $150, but stopped there. I got some patio furniture, a nice 
tractor-pull type of small trailer for only $35, and some box-lot stuff of 
$1/box variety. After we loaded up in the early afternoon, we hit some toy 
stores and fabric stores. I found a new TF '55 Chevy Cameo Truck, by Johnny 
Lightning, it's a Monopoly series vehicle with a van and an SUV being the 
other two I saw, at Wal-mart for $3. It's white with Water Works on it, 
1/64th scale, and the neat thing is, in the package is a bonus TF Monopoly 
piece for the board game! So you can play monopoly with a '55 Chevy Cameo 
truck piece. The others had little pieces as well, so you can now have a 
vehicle version game. Other vehicles listed include the '57 Chevy, Mustang, 
Willys, Corvette, Crown Vic, Pontiac Tempest, Dodge Viper, Chevy Tahoe, Dodge 
Dart, and Utility Van. These are all current cars produced by Johnny 
Lightning under different series, probably. But the game pieces are neat. I 
didn't see any of these at Toys R Us, just Wal-mart today. 
I didn't find any AMC toys worth my time, only one more purple JL 
Thunderjet Javelin AMX, and I have plenty of those, so I left it. Pretty 
sparse for AMC toys today, but the old Cameo truck was nice. Got home, 
unloaded the truck, and went thru some of the treasures. The girlfriend hit 
the jackpot on a $1 box lot, lots of clothes, some from the Orient, and half 
of them she could wear. Some were exceedingly fine, some silk, some 
polyester. Me AND my feet were just glad to be home! We decided not to tell 
the teenager, as he would think he'd be owed a cut of the loot! LOL! NOT! So, 
time to close down and enjoy the afterglow of a day well spent, but not 
costing us a dime! :) Hope everyone else had such good luck today! G'nite!

Jerry
Money for nuthin', ( but the chicks still aren't free...)