Today I made my first Ebay purchase. I have bid there before but never won anything. I have won things for other people, like a camera my brother was looking for but for myself, nada. Usually I spot something interesting, decide how much I would be willing to pay, place a bid and just say the heck with it, if I win I win. Just about always I lose the bid in the last couple hours, minutes, seconds.. This time, much to my surprise, I won. I was looking for an old fashioned Elgin windup watch and I found one, bid and won. Just got done placing the order.
Which leads me to this. I was browsing around ebay looking at all the different antique/vintage stuff people are selling. Some of it going for considerable amount of money, sometimes more than its worth (most hams are well aware of that phenomenon).;).. But lots of other stuff as well, from watches to clocks to electrical appliances, etc. A lot of the things I remember my folks had around the house when I was a child at one time or another. I'll look at an item and say, "wow, I remember we had one of these when i was a kid...but ours was in much better condition". The only peculiar thing is none of it exists anymore because my folks always had a peculiar way of trashing and tossing away all the cool and worthwhile vintage stuff we once had while keeping all the worthless junk that nobody will ever want. Had it been the other way around I could have made a fortune on ebay.... Just kidding, I am just the opposite of my folks, I save all the good old stuff and refuse to part with it.
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