So my wife and I went to an estate sale once. I friggin love those things. It’s interesting to see what someone’s material life consisted of and try to put together what this persons life was like. Also there’s great deals.
We were having zero luck finding anything good, even though this guy was clearly wealthy and had a lot of nice things. This is like a million dollar home. So we’re about to leave and I pass through the bathroom. I see a 90% full tube of toothpaste and think “oh yeah we’re nearly out of toothpaste”. It’s only $0.25 too so I figure why not??
I kind of assume that every estate sale is the result of someone dying suddenly and their families need to liquidate their belongings. In some cases it can be kind of gross thinking you just bought a dead guy’s “X”, but heck $0.25 for toothpaste... whatever!!
So I go downstairs to purchase this toothpaste with a quarter I happen to have. Slap that baby on the counter slide it to the cashier and say “this will be all” she glares at me like “that’s it??” And I reply “yep!” And chuckle a bit. She rolls her eyes as she peels the coin off the table clearly unamused. I turn around with my toothpaste thinking “f- you I just got myself a deal on toothpaste!!” And walk right out the door.
Basically I went through a million dollar home estate sale and bought a single tube of toothpaste for a quarter.
January 26, 2019 at 01:48PM
