RAG AND BONE, DB STYLE
Jan. 20th, 2008 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogToday was the Disco Bay Flea Market – or, as I like to call it, the Disco Bay Junk Swap, where half residents set up a booth in the plaza and sell the junk they don’t want, and the other half buys it. Then, three months later, they change sides.
Something like that.
We got a booth this time. And by “booth” I mean this:
That’s our shingle there – or what was left of it by around 3:30pm. We went down with four huge bags, two boxes and a suitcase, and came back up the hill with one huge bag, one smaller bag and one box.
Total haul (minus expenses): HK$1,657.00 (US$212.25)
Whether that’s good depends on yr point of view. It’s less than we made last time we did one of these. I made more money selling CDs to the Great Escape in Nashville. But then we were selling things for a pittance just to get rid of them. For example, those books you see were going for HK$5.00 each, and the videos for HK$2.00. So from a purely clear-out-junk-from-the-flat POV, we did okay.
And if yr wondering, I didn’t buy anyone else’s junk. I usually only care about the books and CDs anyway, and round here it’s all Top 10 Bestsellers – except for last time, when I managed to score five (5) Robert Rankin books in one shot. Which was nice. That family was there this time too, but no more Rankin, apart from what I’ve already read. Plenty of L.A. Banks, Laurell K Hamilton and Brian Lumley, mind. But vampire lit was never really my bag – apart from the first two Anne Rice books and the occasional Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
And I have enough books to get through. As you’ll see shortly.
Okay. Now it’s time to eat. And if anyone has a good sunburn remedy, please post it below.
Insert Jeff Foxworthy joke here (or rather, don’t),
This is dF
PRODUCTION NOTE: For more on the "Rag And Bone" reference, see: The White Stripes.
Something like that.
We got a booth this time. And by “booth” I mean this:
That’s our shingle there – or what was left of it by around 3:30pm. We went down with four huge bags, two boxes and a suitcase, and came back up the hill with one huge bag, one smaller bag and one box.
Total haul (minus expenses): HK$1,657.00 (US$212.25)
Whether that’s good depends on yr point of view. It’s less than we made last time we did one of these. I made more money selling CDs to the Great Escape in Nashville. But then we were selling things for a pittance just to get rid of them. For example, those books you see were going for HK$5.00 each, and the videos for HK$2.00. So from a purely clear-out-junk-from-the-flat POV, we did okay.
And if yr wondering, I didn’t buy anyone else’s junk. I usually only care about the books and CDs anyway, and round here it’s all Top 10 Bestsellers – except for last time, when I managed to score five (5) Robert Rankin books in one shot. Which was nice. That family was there this time too, but no more Rankin, apart from what I’ve already read. Plenty of L.A. Banks, Laurell K Hamilton and Brian Lumley, mind. But vampire lit was never really my bag – apart from the first two Anne Rice books and the occasional Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
And I have enough books to get through. As you’ll see shortly.
Okay. Now it’s time to eat. And if anyone has a good sunburn remedy, please post it below.
Insert Jeff Foxworthy joke here (or rather, don’t),
This is dF
PRODUCTION NOTE: For more on the "Rag And Bone" reference, see: The White Stripes.
