What you can get at a garage sale...

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Nice score KB , The ONLY thing that could of been better would of been a fuel oil tank (The 200-300 gal one) with a pig roasting....I'm actually looking for one.


Such a timely post too, We had like 50 yardsales in my town yesterday, sadly though , All I got was a big knife and some underpriced silver coins.
 


I love it! It's almost as ghetto as the solar powered oven made of cardboard.

kblessinggr said:
Now this would be ghetto:

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Fatbat said:
Almost? Way more ghetto than the solar oven.

The solar oven is actually a pretty brilliant bit of engineering designed to provide cooking in rural areas, namely Africa, without having to chop down and burn the forests to do so.
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I thought that solar focused cooking units have been around for decades, namely as a compact camping/trail accessory. (ie: a fan-out solar dish, with a small cooking area in the center of it heated by the focused light).
 
Is that the same trailer park that the guy with the Hummer lives in?

Don't be cooking homo hamburgers and brats on it. Go out and buy a couple pork shoulders.

1)Rub em up with cayenne pepper, garlic, paprika, and italian seasoning
2)put a pan of water at the bottom of grill
3)use charcoal to get started then add mesquit or hickory wood chunks
4)cook at 225 F for 4 hours (drink beer while waiting)

Eat the best BBQ pork sandwiches EVAR
 
kblessinggr said:
:P lol.

Our lot rent is bout 400/month, the mobile home itself was 5K.

Basically boils down to, why spend 150-300 for a grill of the same size (though it may be shiny aluminum and have like a lil side griddle and clean propane...) when you can get a solid steel drum as a grill for 10% of the price.
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uhhhh... because that drum may have been used for industrial purposes, with microparticles of the contents actually making their way into the metal, and coming back out when heated excessively.... thus ensuring your lovely meal is filled with toxins, carcinogens and other potentially damaging compounds, but in too fine a quantity per 1000 parts to actually taste.

That said, if it was a new drum, I'm all for a cool DIY fix like that.
While I was at Uni, I usually made furntiure with a nail gun and stuff that was thrown off construction sites (sound proofing stuff is surprisingly comfy onces you nail some cheap cotton over it)
 
HarveyJ said:
uhhhh... because that drum may have been used for industrial purposes, with microparticles of the contents actually making their way into the metal, and coming back out when heated excessively.... thus ensuring your lovely meal is filled with toxins, carcinogens and other potentially damaging compounds, but in too fine a quantity per 1000 parts to actually taste.

That said, if it was a new drum, I'm all for a cool DIY fix like that.
While I was at Uni, I usually made furntiure with a nail gun and stuff that was thrown off construction sites (sound proofing stuff is surprisingly comfy onces you nail some cheap cotton over it)
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uh, it was a new drum, I wouldnt buy one actually used for anything other than grillin
 
The only thing I've bought at a yard sale, I've only gone to a few, was a head of a black guy with 70s style afro. It was carved out of a log. Bought it for the lulz for $0.99. Worth it.
 
transistor said:
how do you find that? what do you look for?
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I find gold at garage sales, flea markets, thrift shops. Little old ladies and their beat up jewelry boxes are your best resource. It's difficult to explain precisely how to distinguish the real from the fake, so I'll just give you an itemized list of pointers.

I am willing to bend down and scrounge through boxes of junk, while other people won't bother. Willingness to make an effort is half of this.

Real gold is duller than fake. Shiny and bright yellow is likely bogus.

Look at the way it's put together. Check out items that you know are gold, and look for other items with the same kind of finish.

1/120 12K is gold filled, and has no scrap value.

If it says 925 that's silver, even if it's gold colored. It's probably vermeil.

Not all gold is hallmarked. Not all hallmarked pieces are gold. (fakery)

Buy an acid testing kit from Ebay. It's cheap and your best friend when on the hunt.

Don't ask anyone if the item is gold before you buy. Just buy it or don't buy it. Sellers' ignorance is your friend.

Real gold is heavy. Lighter pieces of the same volume are fake.

I have a packed jewelry box filled with real stuff I bought for a buck or two. Sometimes I have to clean out and just get rid of some, so my method really works.

hth
 
sharky said:
It doesn't matter what the grill looks like, as long as the steaks taste great in the end! Just promis not to cook anything well done!
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If it's ground beef , or chicken ,its going to get cooked thoroughly. Steaks are probably the only red meat that I'd let off the grill medium-rare depending on the person who will be enjoying it. (ie: everything else gets fully cooked).
 
BlueYonder said:
I find gold at garage sales, flea markets, thrift shops. Little old ladies and their beat up jewelry boxes are your best resource. It's difficult to explain precisely how to distinguish the real from the fake, so I'll just give you an itemized list of pointers.
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This might be a stupid question, but how do you hock the gold after? Pawn, ebay, or what? I spend my summers around Cape Cod a lot and flea markets and little old lady yard sales are common.
 
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