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olbriar said:
I ordered a replacement purge bulb for my Shindaiwa T-262 string trimmer. $4.10 plus shipping. I ordered two while I was ordering. I'm certain I ordered two last time. It's good to have a spare if only you knew where you put it. :)
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The purge bulbs I ordered the 19th of last month arrived at my local sorting facility. It is not listed as being out for delivery. It would have been delivered in three of four days if shipped in a padded envelope with a dollar stamp. Crazy slow delivery

I have a couple of items I ordered over the weekend that will likely show up before the bulbs. I ordered some bike brake mineral oil, two heavy duty tire tubes, and a replacement robe.
 
The purge bulbs I had ordered were delivered today. 15 days in transit seems a bit slow. They were shipped USPS Ground Advantage. I'm glad they weren't shipped disadvantage.
 
I'm father of the bride.
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olbriar said:
Every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man.
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Well, I happened to be married to the girl of my dreams. I'm dressing up because my daughter is getting married. I bought all this because I'm so happy to be father of the bride!
 
Getting on my geeky glasses on, getting new prescrption ones in a while from now,
Ah yeah joining in the geek club!!! WOOO, mom said "Wow you look like a manager who works in Chicago with six kids look."
"Nah, maybe working at a cell phone carrier type deal look"

They are orange sunrise tint and light blue around the frames, light horn rimmed glasses.
 
Okay, this was probably the most unique purchase we have ever made, or will ever make, at a yard/garage/estate sale.

We bought an entire brick wall.

The Darling Bride has some landscaping to do and wanted landscaping bricks. Big box hardware place wants $3 each for the 10-inch bricks with the scalloped, humpy top edge.

I stopped at an estate sale just to see what they had, in case the Darling Bride might see something of interest: but I noticed a stack of landscape bricks next to the garage door. "Are you, by chance, selling those bricks?"

"How many do you want?"

"How many do you have?"

She pointed to a WALL of them. Two for a dollar!

After consulting the Darling Bride, we bought ALL of them and disassembled the wall, brick by brick, and I made trips with my SUV. 300 bricks later, I think we have enough for her landscaping needs... and if we have a surplus, we can always sell them for a dollar each.

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Twenty eight years ago, my sister and brother-in-law built a new home. I had just recently acquired a 32" school bell, it's yoke, and wheel. I was gifted the leftover bricks from my sister's home and I planned on using them to make some sort of surround / flower bed around the bell at some point. I managed to pour a concrete base for the bell and my son's football team carried the bell over and set it in the yoke. Fast forward to this summer... I finally moved the stack of bricks from my drive to the back of my home. I hope you have better luck with your landscape bricks @The_Chief 🤣
 
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My cleaned out malwear machine, I got it back a spell ago, also the Extended Mainteince on my windows 10 for about 1,000 Microsoft award points.
 
While I'm not a coin collector, I purchased a 2025-S American Eagle Silver Proof from the U.S. Mint. It's the last American Eagle to be produced by the San Francisco Mint... by the time I received it, it was already sold out. A gorgeous coin that will only increase in value. My last expected purchase from the Mint will be in a week with the American Eagle Silver Proof is released with the Navy emblem laser-engraved on it, in observance of the U.S. Navy's 250th birthday.
 
buying a proof set jogged a memory. I rented a house from the retired banker of my little town when I first went out on my own. We became friends and I built him a number of display cases for some of his collections. He collected many things. Just a year before I started renting was the centennial year for the little town. The city dads had ordered 500 hundred centennial coin sets to be handed sold or gifted by the city merchants. The coins arrived a month after the celebration and my landlord bought them all. He sold me one at face value. I have no clue the amount now. There were four or five coins in the set, each stamped the same but of different metal. The silver coin was the gem, being pure silver. I have that set in one of the safes. I wonder if it has gained any value since 1970. 😆
 
I'm sure it has! That would be interesting just to see what the market would bear for it! I'd also purchased a 1992-S silver proof set, along with a 1992-S American Eagle silver proof, for our former tax deduction son's Christmas gift. It was the first year since 1964 that San Francisco produced proof sets, so that's extra value for him.
 
The_Chief said:
I'm sure it has! That would be interesting just to see what the market would bear for it! I'd also purchased a 1992-S silver proof set, along with a 1992-S American Eagle silver proof, for our former tax deduction son's Christmas gift. It was the first year since 1964 that San Francisco produced proof sets, so that's extra value for him.
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I tried to do some research on the sets and found nothing. I found some proof bronze coins from the Franklin mint which I'm sure I have one of. They were priced from $8.50 to $45 but most were around ten bucks on ebay. I'm pretty sure it's the same coin. I'll dig them out and see what I actually have. I'm thinking there were four or five coins.. all the same size and stamp. They were each a different metal. I am not certain now about the amount of sets either. It wasn't a big deal when I bought them. Maybe three or four bucks. I remember him saying he bought them for the silver coin.

My father collected coins. He never bought proofs but was into collecting old coins. He wore a $20 gold coin on a necklace most of my adult life and had many coin books filled with old silver. He bought and sold and wasn't a pure collector. He always said that he wouldn't sell my mother but would consider a good trade. :) My mother died when she was in her forties and he remarried. When he died, and my step mother was forced to seek assisted living fifteen years later, his collections were gone. Perhaps he sold or traded his coins off. I collected pennies and have a number of full books and a few books that lack a few. I have a bank sack full of wheat pennies. I have quite a few silver dollars and a bunch of two dollar bills. The same sort of collection most everyone has. :)
 
That bank sack may have some gems in it! 1909-S VDB, 1955 double die... maybe even the holy grail of pennies, a 1944 copper penny (if you find one, you're instantly retired)!
 
Don't forget the 55s or the 54 plain. :) I have steel pennies but they aren't of great value. The bag contains pennies from the gumball machines at the local bowling alley. I went through them filling books and saving the wheats in my youth. My father would buy all the coins from the pinball, pool tables, and gumball machines weekly. We would go through them and pay face for the keepers and roll the remaining for the bowling alley owner who was one of my dad's best buddies.
 
olbriar said:
Don't forget the 55s or the 54 plain. :) I have steel pennies but they aren't of great value. The bag contains pennies from the gumball machines at the local bowling alley. I went through them filling books and saving the wheats in my youth. My father would buy all the coins from the pinball, pool tables, and gumball machines weekly. We would go through them and pay face for the keepers and roll the remaining for the bowling alley owner who was one of my dad's best buddies.
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Wait what? That is amazing!
 
October 10th at 11 AM - the release of the U.S. Mint's 2025 Silver Eagle with laser-engraved Navy privy mark in observance of the Navy's 250th birthday. I was surprised to find myself in a virtual waiting room due to high traffic! I was going to buy two of them, but was limited to one. Purchase complete! Then the Darling Bride suggested that SHE could buy one as well... so I used her phone to wait some more and purchase a second one. We had to use a different address because of a household limit of one... but we got it done!

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