You are very kind , sir . I live in a kind of affluent town ( I guess ) - there are some yard sales I can ' t even afford !!    The consignment shops are decent , but you have to be an eagle - eyed shopper   and I never got the girl - gene when it comes to liking or being good at it , haha . 

Congrats on posting the first bloop in the new Loop !

Our neighborhood has a yearly garage sale as well . I use it as a chance to save a trip to Goodwill and practically give things away for free . Plus we never think to get enough cash for change .

I miss hearing about your running ! What ' s your next race ? 

Hurray !! First b ( reloaded ) loop !

1 hour ago, gdionelli said:

Congrats on posting the first bloop in the new Loop !

Ha . Guess I should have been more poetic or maybe prophetic somehow .

1 hour ago, DrWhiskers said:

Our neighborhood has a yearly garage sale as well . I use it as a chance to save a trip to Goodwill and practically give things away for free . Plus we never think to get enough cash for change .

I miss hearing about your running ! What ' s your next race ? 

No races scheduled . Just been doing about 30mpw lately . Only a few workouts here and there .

I ' ve always been a little skeptical of the Garmin HR workouts . Think you ' ll keep them up ?

Any time I stop at a garage sale I always hope I discover some old lady selling a stack of ' 50s baseball cards for a nickel each and pick up a couple   Mickey Mantle rookies or something . And yeah , I know what you ' re thinking , ripping off an old lady is terrible . But it ' s payback for   my mom using my Derek Jeter rookie card to scoop up and throw out a dead bug . So there . 

8 hours ago, Gonzo Runner said:

I ' ve always been a little skeptical of the Garmin HR workouts . Think you ' ll keep them up ?

It ' s called the " Improve Your Fitness " plan . It at least gives me a couple of workouts per week to try .  I could always ignore the HR too low / high part and get the workout in .

We ' ve gotten a few things from neighborhood sales . The best score for me was a small deep perfectly seasoned cast iron pan for like $ 10 . I use that thing almost every day .

Our best garage sale score came when we were first married .  It was an old wooden high chair , sold by the woman who ' d been a baby in it .  Since Mrs . AB wasn ' t pregnant yet , it was a leap of faith , and it worked .  I refinished it , our son flung baby food from it , and we still use it as a charging station for our phones .  I ' m pretty sure we ' ll have it forever .

Where I ' m at , I don ' t put prices on things because some people haggle . You can spot them as they come up and you just know that if you tell them it ' s $ 5 they will offer you $ 2 .   Others , usually the ones who don ' t understand why you haven ' t priced anything won ' t haggle so I give them the price I want for the stuff I just want to go away anyway .  
I don ' t like having garage sales ... and your pace is ninja .  

I love cheap garage sales . And I agree on your statement regarding that teacher . It ' s commendable that they spend some of their own money for their students , isn ' t it ?

I ' m debating if I should invest in a heart rate monitor . Still undecided .