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Went out to by a pair of sneakers, this is what I came back with.

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Went out to buy a pair of sneakers, this is what I came back with.

Here's the deal, I purposely avoided looking at the estate sales website because I'm trying not to buy more stuff. Anyhow I went to the department store down the road to get a pair of sneakers and on the way back I see an estate sale sign pointing down the street, I pass it up, good, then I decide why not have a look probably just some pots and pans and baby clothes. So I turn on the next street and it doesn't go through, maybe an omen, but now I'm determined, I pull a U-turn and head back, the haul:

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arkangel06 said:
Your one lucky dude!

nice hard handles :)
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Thanks, some of the hard handle are in rough shape, and the 24" extension is missing the retaining ball so I'll toss in my exchange box that's almost full, I wonder what they'll replace them with?
 
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DanCo said:
So how much were the sneakers?
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Scooterfish said:
So was your Kohls coupon 10,20,or 30% off? That should have saved enough to buy the tools. New Balance are great shoes.
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They were on sale for $40 something, Id have to find the receipt. I didn't have a coupon, didn't know they had coupons but everyone in line in front of me had some sort of coupon, I'll have to remember that for next time.

I like New Balance a lot and they make some of them in the USA (should be all of them), only sneaker I can find that are comfortable, I need the wide shoes.
 
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mrshaun said:
my kind of shoe shopping there.
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And all Snap-On except for the stuff that is obviously not. I now believe I have the world's largest collection of distributor wrenches in the world, unless you guys are still carrying them on the truck.
 
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selohssa said:
You seem to get a lot of great scores. You must have a sixth sense for tool sniffing.
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No sixth sense, it's just dumb luck, very rarely when I go looking for tools to I do well, the good scores I always just seem to happen onto them when I'm not intentionally looking. But when I do find them I move quickly, grab everything and sort it out later, you can always put something back. At this sale someone grabbed a set of impacts that I was thinking about, they were Craftsman so I didn't care but that's how quickly the stuff goes. What I'm wondering is how much stuff I missed because I didn't get there until later (around 11 am).



mooman said:
Was this a Berland's bruised and reduced sale?
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No, it was at a house about a 1/2 mile from my house, but I am just down the road from their Berland's Lombard location, am I missing something?

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You always get the best stuff!
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My old lady would strongly disagree.
 
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Nice tap & dies....and black handles!

Swear dude, you must draw good tool Ju-ju!

Don't know to be jealous, pissed or happy for you?

Nice score non the less.

-Mike
 
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Mickey O said:
They were on sale for $40 something, Id have to find the receipt. I didn't have a coupon, didn't know they had coupons but everyone in line in front of me had some sort of coupon, I'll have to remember that for next time.

I like New Balance a lot and they make some of them in the USA (should be all of them), only sneaker I can find that are comfortable, I need the wide shoes.
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Except those, and ~75% of the shoes they make, where hecho in china.
Cheap shoes are for chumps. :bounce:
Nice tool score though. :thumbup:
 
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Arachnotron said:
Except those, and ~75% of the shoes they make, where hecho in china.
Cheap shoes are for chumps. :bounce:
Nice tool score though. :thumbup:
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They did have USA made ones at the store, but unfortunately those were the only ones I could find in my size and I had a gift card, my next pair will be ordered USA made and ordered online from New Balance website.
 
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Nice score! I wish I could find yard/garage sales like that.

Interested in selling the rolling head prybar?
 
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Icing on the cake, this baby just got dropped off a few minutes ago, won it at the Toolguyd website (thanks Stuey and DeWalt).



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Now that I think about I dont have a pair of gym shoes. All I own is boots. Looks like ime gonna have to go buy a pair.


LOL, nice find
 
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Now how did my GOOD pop rivet gun get to Chicago??????


Honestly, it's the same brand in the same box and it looks like the same boxed pop rivets....
 
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I have given up on other brands of shoes, all I buy is New Balance, specifically the 609. I buy them at Famous Footwear when they have a buy one pair, get the second pair half price. They never have two pair, but will order and ship to the house for free.

Great shoes.

Charles
 
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:(The New Balance 609 is no longer available. This style has been replaced by the New Balance 621...........not made in the U.S.A.
 
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Mickey O said:
Icing on the cake, this baby just got dropped off a few minutes ago, won it at the Toolguyd website (thanks Stuey and DeWalt).



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Mickey I'LL take that Dewalt kit of your hands. We wouldn't want any imports tainting your garage now would we??? As for the other stuff - you ****!:beer::beer:
 
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ok i have a question. Is that Tap & Die set really a nice set? I passed up that exact same one (not kidding, same amount of pieces and everything) for $20 today. Was $20 too much? or am i a dummy?
 
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Mickey O, what the heck are you going to do with all the great tools that you score?? Dibs on the Ace tap and die set if you ever decide to sell them.:)

Scott
 
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