From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 10/3/2025 8:49 PM, Gerry wrote:   
   > On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 15:58:36 -0500, Snag  wrote:   
   >   
   >>    My $5 12" bench top planer I got today works ! One of the blades is   
   >> damaged and I need to fabricate a guard over the cutter head since it is   
   >> missing . But after I unstuck the brushes it fired right up . I ran a   
   >> scrap piece of the 1x rough siding through it and it planes nicely too .   
      
   > Best find I ever had, even better than "some kind of electrical meter"   
   > (Fluke 77) for $3.00, was the time when walking back to my car I   
   > picked an interesting loking lump off the pavement next to my car. On   
   > closer examination at my next stop it turned out to be a twenty folded   
   > around a fifty dollar bill!   
      
   We used to stack milk crates on the front porch of our grocery store.   
   Often people waiting for the store to open would use them as a place to   
   sit in the shade until the doors opened.  Largest I ever found was $100   
   bill which my mom made me put in the store safe and wait a month to see   
   if anybody came around asking about it.  Found lots of change and small   
   bills.  $100 was a LOT of money when I was a kid.  More than made up for   
   the action figure I left out there once that disappeared.   
      
   Good deals is a tough one.  Had an older friend recently offer me all   
   his guns for a $1000.  There are three of them worth about that much   
   solo.  A couple more have some modest value as well.  I told him what I   
   thought they were worth to the right buyers, and asked him if he was   
   sure at least three times.  He said he didn't want to deal with all   
   that.  When I told him I'd have to come back later to pay him as I   
   didn't have that much in my play money right now he said, "I trust you.   
   Take them and pay me next time you have the cash."  I was kinda stunned.   
     I think he's just getting old and he wanted his guns to go to somebody   
   that would appreciate them.  Might be one of the best deals I ever got   
   not counting outright gifts.  Really it was kind of a gift.  I have   
   helped him with a few things, but I don't think anything I did for him   
   was worth that much.   
      
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