Restraint

It was sunny Saturday and I needed to go to the local Agway located way across town for grub killer. Grubs annoy me. Having skunks dig up my lawn annoy me. Having skunks stink up the neighborhood annoy me. Driving across town to buy grub killer annoys me. So I made a list of the garage and yard sales from my local paper and hit every... single .... one.

People are getting trickier. They find out their neighbor is having a rummage sale so they drag out their junk and attempt to sell it. Sometime whole *streets* do that. So I hit those sales too, and the ones that just stuck a sign on the street. I must have hit ten sales, maybe twelve!

I bought ONE item: a five dollar multi tool. Useful!

To be honest, there wasn't much that thrilled me in all the sales. Some things did attract me: a really early word processor - a piece of history! A VHS video camera *complete* in a case with cables, adapters, battery charger - a real blast from the past! And a pair of (most likely decorative) katanas. Neat!

Naw. I got home and treated my lawn.

Last weekend I hit a rummage for the American Cancer Society (great cause) and got some neat stuff: a Realistic (Radio Shack) 10 band audio equalizer (been looking for one of those) a nineteen inch computer monitor (always handy especially since I gave away a nineteen inch monitor recently) and some bags of various adapters in them. The USB wireless adapter I plugged into my Linux box and hey, works like a charm! Lucky me!

Don't buy toys. Buy tools. But for a good cause spend liberally.

-m