May 14, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of the What Sold podcast, Brandon and Matt dive into the world of reselling by sharing their latest estate sale finds, including vintage gun holsters, collectible pen lead, and unique staplers. They discuss the significance of these items, their potential value, and how resellers can find similar hidden treasures in their own homes, specifically focusing on common items found in junk drawers. The hosts also reflect on the nostalgia and quirks of the reselling community and share additional entertaining anecdotes.
00:00 Welcome to the What Sold Podcast
01:07 Stuart Smalley and Reseller Confidence
02:05 Rusty's Unique Ride
03:08 Tales of Junk and Reselling
04:46 Prohibition and Moonshine Stories
09:20 Estate Sale Adventures
15:12 Open Carry Laws in North Carolina
15:37 Cowboy Style and Movie References
16:27 Estate Sale Finds and Comic Books
18:14 The Junk Drawer Debate
19:50 Valuable Items in Your Junk Drawer
24:30 Collectible Scissors and Staplers
29:48 Concluding Thoughts and Farewell
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(00:39):
Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
Truly a place where allyour dreams come true.
When you're out there and you'relistening, you're driving in there.
I know mine are, I knowall my dreams coming.
When you're your VW Bug and you'retooling around going to estate sales,
and yard sales and thrift stores.
This is just a little pieceof podcast gold for you.
(01:02):
Does, it fuels you.
It fuels your soul.
So that when you walk in with confidence.
This is gonna age me a little bit,but do you remember that Stuart
Smalley from Saturday Night Live?
Oh yeah.
He would stare into the mirror andsay, you're good enough, you're
smart enough, and Dogg on it.
People like you.
Yeah.
We're the Stuart Smalleyof the reselling world.
Yeah.
I'm really beginning to believe that.
Oh I appreciate that.
(01:23):
That's sweet.
That would be a funny intro to a video.
Is this just ripping thatoff, but it being Rusty.
Doing that into am mirror.
Like that's his prep workbefore he leaves to go out.
Oh, that's would be rich.
Brilliant man.
That is brilliant.
I'm good enough.
Smart enough.
That's people love me's, that's a actor.
He's a, he's in politics now, right?
Or he was at one pointthe actor who did that.
(01:44):
Yeah.
He, until he got booted out of the Senate.
Al Franken, I can't remember.
Al Franken.
Yep.
Al Franken.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah.
Al Franken.
So we are, when you're out therelistening to the dulcet tones.
Of Brandon and Matt.
Just remember that we are just alittle piece of encouragement to you.
That's right.
In daily travails as youbattle a bright spot.
A bright spot, if you will.
(02:05):
If I had a VW bud that bugg that I drovearound picking up stuff in, it would
need to be like a bright orange or a limegreen or something, a statement color.
So that when people saw you, there wasno, oh, I wonder if, Matt's coming to
this thing, they see you coming froma and that could be a good or bad.
It's either oh, cool, or it's like a. Oh,this guy again, I feel like you should
be driving a, it's not gonna be a VW bug.
(02:27):
It's gonna be a VW van.
Mm-hmm.
Painted bright green and on the sideit's gonna have like clown balloons,
but it's gonna say the reseller Yeah.
On both sides.
And then the back will be covered withstickers for all over the e found it's.
Friends of mine have told me thingslike Rusty he, his spirit animal
would be like a kind of a rough.
Old Thunderbird with the birdon the, it's like rusted sides.
(02:50):
And he's so proud of that thing.
Yeah, he got it at a, on a deal.
He got a deal and he doesn'tknow how to shift it correctly.
So every time you're drivingby people are like, God, does
that guy know what he's doing?
And he's just playing tocram stuff in the trunk.
Doesn't yeah, anymore.
He has to use bungee cords tohold it down because it's, yeah.
It's too much in there.
It's falling out on the road.
I was driving behind the guythe other day and he was.
(03:11):
An older fella and probably hisson, and they were in an old pickup
truck that had seen better days.
It did not have a hood anymore.
Okay.
So you're just looking at theengine and in the back was just.
Filled with junk.
Like overflowing.
I was thinking to myself, Idon't want to go behind him.
Yeah.
Because something's inevitable.
(03:31):
Bounce up and freezercrack your windshield.
A bowling ball.
Yeah, something's, oh,no, it's gonna kill me.
It's gonna be like a spear's gonnafly right through my windshield.
Oh, man.
Kill me off of the back.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Chill.
Sorry for the children, the imagery outthere for the young prospective resellers.
I'll note that as a thing.
Yeah I'll put that in the show notes.
If this is an adult only episode as.
(03:52):
Brandon has been impaled by the junk band,but I did think that, wow, what did I,
I always think about now, you and yourworld, and that is the strata of people in
the reselling world is truly fascinating.
The so cake, the band cake,they had that first album came
out when I was in high school.
Yeah.
And there's a song on there that thelyrics go something like, there's a
(04:12):
man, sitting, collecting stamps ina room filled with Chinese lamps.
And I, it makes me think ofRusty, everyone's asleep.
But at one in the morning, he's downin this cluttered, room, it's dimly
lit by a hundred year old lamps thathe's rewired and he's like feverishly
searching his 20-year-old stampbooks to see, what value this has.
(04:35):
I don't do that, by the way,but we can imagine, yeah, that
Rusty would do that for sure.
For sure Rusty would do that, buthe would have to do it in between.
Tending to a still.
I do live by a little creek down hereand we live in the Appalachian ones.
Yeah there's I dunno if it's still open.
Navita, is that still open?
The big high ropes area where youcan go and pay and they, okay.
(04:55):
So it's, I have no idea.
It's out here north of Asheville, maybeout towards Weaverville, that area.
But when you're out there, they say thateven still the last time I was there.
The little creeks and streams and stuffthat run through this large property.
Out in the wilderness, they foundmultiple stills that people had gone
way out in the woods and created.
And they've got all like holes in thembecause of the, what do they call 'em,
(05:17):
like the revenues or they would comeand they would, they, a TF of the day.
They would come and they would bust 'em.
They'd just pop holes in them.
Here's your copper, right?
Yeah.
You shouldn't have been doing this.
They arrest you.
Or if they just discover it andyou're not around, they're gonna
destroy it so it can't be used again.
That can legitimately be foundall over Western North Carolina.
Probably in Kentucky, Tennessee.
Oh, I guarantee you.
(05:37):
In Kentucky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's an interesting, it's an interestingpiece of history during prohibition.
People are like it's not thatI'm not gonna drink anymore.
It just means I'm gonna haveto do a little work now.
I don't just, I don't justjump on the horse and go down.
I gotta read some books.
I gotta figure out how to do this.
Isn't that what LaGuardia did?
The mayor of New York wherehe went on camera during
prohibition and he created beer.
(05:59):
He showed people how to make beer.
Oh.
From local, from stuff youcould get at the grocery store.
That's hilarious.
I don't know about that, but that's cool.
He did it to show thatthe ludicrous nature of.
Prohibition.
Yeah, it's kinda like that.
This is terribly illegal.
So just so you know what not to doyou certainly don't start with this
and you don't put these together.
You don't wait this long.
Please don't do that.
(06:19):
Oh, okay.
No, he did it the exact opposite.
He said, this is completely illegal.
You could put this together and make beer.
There was no law against it.
Right.
He's, but he's essentially teachingpeople how to do it under the guise of,
I'm educating you on what not to do,but yeah, you're gonna do what you do.
Yeah.
Bathtub gin and all that stuff.
Yeah.
I, we all know that proprohibition did not end well.
(06:40):
It's very tough toprohibit certain things.
I think that they were more, I thinkI read that there were more entities
creating alcohol by far duringprohibition than I. Prior to it.
It was 'cause it was the, it waslike the forbidden thing now.
Right.
And people were like, youdon't tell me what to do.
Yeah.
I didn't care about making it before.
Now I'm gonna make it andsell it outta my basement.
(07:01):
Well, right.
And that's why bottledin bond, which is Yep.
When you see a bondedwarehouses, the government.
Yeah.
Yep.
So that they knew that it was actuallymade with, it didn't have poisons in it.
Yeah.
They took care of thefirst line of alcohol.
The, what is it?
The heads, the hearts and the tails.
I think you, it's the heads you getrid of and the heart and the tails.
The hearts are the best and the tails.
(07:21):
Otherwise it causes your your opticalnerve to detach from your retina.
And that is what caused the blindnesswhen they talked about moonshine.
Oh, you'll go blind.
Right?
You legitimately could go blind ifyou didn't know that there's certain
alcohols that will be poisonous.
Yeah.
Or it could kill you.
There's all sorts of terriblethings that happened because
of it, that What was that?
There was a cir, a book abouta circus, I can't remember now.
But there was a guy in the thing thatdrank some bad alcohol and died from it.
(07:43):
Anyway, but we digress, man.
This certainly is not anepisode for the children.
This is definitely the most adult episode.
We've, wait.
We talked about two deaths in here, Matt.
It's okay.
Three is when you don't want the kids inthe room when you get to the third death.
By the way, I, this is an absolutelynothing to do with the What Soul Podcast.
Bring it.
(08:04):
I just love it.
So much that I wanna share itwith people that are out there.
If you were looking for a story podcastthat is about Appalachia and is done
in an incredible production way, itis called The Old Gods of Appalachia.
It is a, it's almost like a dramashow, like the old time radio shows
they would do, and it's this guy,he's got the most incredible voice.
(08:29):
Produced by you.
This is like a selfless plug.
No, I wish it was produced by me.
It's produced by agroup called Nerd Media.
I think they're actually out of England,but they produce this and it's a guy, I
think he's local to the area somewhere.
I don't even know some thatcould be an apocryphal story.
I don't know.
But it is five seasons.
If you're just driving aroundas a reseller and you wanna
find a show that sort of.
(08:50):
Sums up Apple.
It's a gothic horrorshow, so just be aware.
Again, this is an adult showtonight, earmuffs Children.
I highly earmuffs kids on this part.
I highly recommend it.
Anyway, that's nothing to do withwhat we're talking about today.
Very cool.
Very cool.
I'm obsessed with this podcast show.
I'll have to check it out.
Alright, Matt, that one person,grumpy seller, 4 33, who says what?
(09:10):
Do you get to the thing that's the part ofthe show where you could just skip ahead?
Yeah, guys, in case you didn'tknow, just skip all of that.
You can start right now.
Right.
So Matt, this has been anotherone of those crazy weeks.
I won't get too far into the weeds orshow you guys how the sauce is made, but
Matt is, he's like lightning in a bottle.
You gotta be aware when you work withMatt that it could just, he might have
(09:31):
just like, Hey Brandon, I gotta go.
I've gotta, I gotta dig up a cellar.
Somebody called me, they want,they got a root cellar and
they got some stuff in there.
You could be mesmerized or youcould end up in the hospital.
It's again, it's a roll of the dice.
Every time it's a roll the dice.
And he'll be like, I can't recordright now because I've gotta go.
Somebody said they found an oldworld War II nuclear bunker.
(09:52):
That's right.
There's some stuff in there.
Yeah, it could happen.
They've asked me to go decommission a, anold World War two bomb that they found.
We gotta dig a trench around it andwe gotta, we're see, we're gonna
see if we can sell it on eBay.
That's right.
You went today toanother in a estate sale.
What did you do?
'cause you had something.
Yeah, I did.
And first of all, it's a beautiful day.
It's like 72 and it's like perfect.
It's gorgeous.
Absolute perfect weather today.
(10:13):
I went to an estate salethis morning at 10 o'clock.
It's the same one that youand I went to, if you recall.
Oh yeah.
And I work with that gentleman now.
Very nice guy.
But as you recall, when wewere at the last one, it was
quite cold and we got there.
I got there pretty early.
You came a little afterme, but we were there.
We stood in line for a while, please.
Quite a few people.
Am I right?
And we were just on one side.
(10:33):
You can line up in the front and the back.
Yeah.
Oh, that's probably 50 people waiting.
I got there at about nine 20.
So only 40 minutes ahead of time.
First one in line.
Really on such a gorgeous day.
Now it has everything to do withthe types of items that were there.
The time we went, there was a tonof jewelry, a ton of watches, a
bunch of collectible things andthe people came out for that Today,
(10:55):
arguably not as valuable things.
Maybe things that aren't as interestingto people also have, as we've alluded
to my experience lately, has beenthere's been a bit of a shift in sales.
Sales have been a little bit lower.
I don't think that it's acoincidence that there's been
some turbulence with the economy.
There's been some fear and some rhetoric.
Who knows what to believe andpeople are left with, in case it
(11:18):
gets bad, maybe I need to not bebuying some extra things right now.
Maybe I, whatever.
And so I think that's part of it.
There are people also who are in thebusiness, who are, one of the changes
they're making is, I just need tonot spend as much, which I haven't
been doing either, but it's morebecause I'm, I've shifted and I'm
selling more for other people, andso the product is coming to me now.
I don't have to spend money.
(11:38):
But all that to say, I was in line.
Awesome.
Chatted a little bit.
I even brought a little tub with me, likea little plastic tub because I knew that
there were a few things that there werevarious ones and it would be too hard for
me to just collect them with my hands.
So I brought a tub.
So he opens the door, I go in,first thing I go to is a couple of
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these little old, I say they're old.
They're actually either reproductionsor their newer ones made to look
old that either are mirroringold ones or not, but like oil and
gas signs or like old marketing.
Advertising type signs.
And it's just like one, my dad likes that.
Like I may, it's probably one ofthose who's gonna go to him for
Father's Day or something, and thenthere's a table full of gun holsters.
(12:22):
Oh, gun holsters.
In their unused, in theiroriginal packaging, there were
probably around 35 to 40 of them.
And.
95 plus percent of them were leather,like stitched leather, nice things.
And prior to going, I didn't exactlyknow the brands and things, but I
just wanted to see, okay, I've notreally researched gun holsters 'cause
I'm not a gun aficionado or anything.
(12:44):
And so I got on eBay.
Lo and behold.
Would you venture to guess the holsterfor which type of gun on eBay sells?
I know that's a very specific question,but would you guess what are the most.
Valuable, highest priced or, thehighest purchase price holster.
What type of gun does it hold?
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A Glock.
You would.
Nine millimeter.
It's not.
And I, so the next the hint wouldbe, it's an old, it's a vintage.
It would be an older, the Col sixshooter, col colt, the old classic cult.
1911 Colt.
1911 Holsters.
Are selling four hundreds.
I have a 1911, a hundred, 200, $300.
Really?
For a, for just a holster that holdsit like a, so for the audience,
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it's not a gun fishing auto.
A 1911 is the, if you can imagine, maybeyou saw a World War II movie or something.
The lieutenant would have a sidearm.
He would have a pistol.
Mm-hmm.
And it's a 45.
It's called the 1911.
It's a type of that'sthe caliber 45 caliber.
Yep.
And the 1911 is a very specific.
Type of, I actually own one.
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I got it years ago because Ijust thought it looked so cool.
It is a very iconic looking Yes weapon.
And along with that otherColt, like single action army
pistols, revolver pistols, whichare also highly collectible.
And then there are some others thatare specialized Beretta or this and
that, and then getting into newer ones.
But because a lot of these pistolsyou mentioned like a Glock, that's
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one of the highest selling brandsof pistol today, and there are.
Holsters and holders for this.
Ah, but for an older, like a 80,a hundred year old pistol, they're
not like making a ton of leatherholster for those things today.
Right.
And if they are, you're gonna,you're gonna pay up for 'em.
'cause there aren't as many of them.
All that to say, I walk in.
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I just cleared that table.
They were $10 a piece is whatthey wanted for $10 a piece,
brand new in the packaging.
I bought 32 of them, so I spent $320 on32 holders, but most of them are leather
and we're talking bottom dollar, 30 to$40 for these is what they'll sell for
possibly in the hundreds on some of them.
So I expect to, for that $320 purchase,I'm probably gonna make six to $800,
(14:53):
possibly more and profit off of those.
And listen, if I wenttoday to a pawn shop.
If I went today to a pawn shop, Icould sell these there and make the
money immediately if I wanted to.
I wouldn't make as much.
Wait, who's wearing the holsters?
Are guys walking around with a holster?
Oh yeah.
We're in North Carolina.
People who don't know thisrecently legislation was passed.
Now you can open carry without a permit.
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Weapons in the sort instate of North Carolina.
So a person could buy a, come tome, could buy or go to a pawn shop
right now who that sells weapons.
Buy a holster, put their,they could buy a weapon.
They stick that in their holster and walk.
Exposed.
This is not a show about likeopinions about whether or not
that's good or bad or any of that.
I'm just, that's it'sa fact you can do that.
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I like to see myself I would liketo, if I was ever gonna wear a gun
with a holster again, is I would do.
I'd go full cowboy.
I would wear like chaps.
One on either side.
You would also have on one side butreverse, no, they have to be reversed.
So you have to reach across to pull'em like the old Western westerns.
Fair enough.
That's, yeah, that's how I would do it.
So I would do it thatway, but I'd also have.
Do you remember what was the movie?
Snake Eyes With the Nicholas Cage.
(15:59):
Okay.
Yes.
He had these two gold plated gunsthat he had side by side in the back.
I'd have those as well.
On one ankle I'd have one, andthen I'd have like a gaucho knife
in my boot on the other one.
Of course, I'd be armed to the tee.
Yeah, you can't be, youcan't be prepared enough.
By the way, everyone, itsounds like I know about guns.
Not only is this the.
A hundred percent ofwhat I know about fire.
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I've overextended myself, itsounds like I know more than I do.
90% of this I learned this morningbefore I went to this estate sale.
But all that to say it was really cool.
I got all these, I haven'tsold them yet, but I'm excited.
I will give updates on that.
And then I went and got a variousother things, a box of old comic books.
I got some pocket knives.
I bought a Carson CityMorgan Dollar from 8 18 78.
(16:42):
I think it's a date.
Carson City, Nevada.
Yeah.
So for Morgan dollars Oh, cool.
Silver dollars.
Silver dollars, mm-hmm.
Made in the 18 hundreds, late18 hundreds, maybe even early 19
hundreds there were different mints.
There's, there's like Philadelphia,the OI think it's maybe San Francisco.
There's a D or whatever.
And, but the cc, if you get a CarsonCity one, it's a mint that fewer were
(17:03):
minted there than any other mint.
And the mint was not activeas long as the others.
And so Carson City Morgan dollars tend to.
Almost always sell for highervalues on average than one
minted in the other place.
Wow.
Just in case you're wondering if youever go to a pawn shop and you see
a bunch of Morgan dollars, look onthe back of them above the eagle,
or actually it's below the eagle.
What's the Morgan dollar?
Well, that's what they call it.
It's got a specific look.
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In fact, I will.
I may even show the one I bought here,if I can grab it in a second to Yeah.
I can always throw apicture up in the show too.
Yeah, that's what they call them anyways.
They're very collectibleas a silver dollar.
So I got that.
A couple other things, I washappy about it, but I was a
little behind the curtain here.
I was a little late gettingon today 'cause I was in it,
I was sorting that stuff.
I was not thinking about time.
(17:46):
I get a text from Brandon Hey,should we just shut this down or
are you gonna fully commit ever?
Sorry.
Sorry about that.
I did not say that.
I just said, are you joining?
That's all I said people.
I did not chastise him.
He did.
He is kind.
That's true.
I paint you with darker shades there.
I'm, I am the task master on the show.
I'm the, I gotta get things done.
That's right.
We got, I need that.
We got that.
(18:06):
People to please, Hey, listen, we can'tbe that ray of sunshine for that seller
that's driving around in their VW bug.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
If you don't get on and be withus, Matt, that's the bottom line.
That is true.
What do we wanna, whatdo we wanna touch on?
Do we want to talk about a subject?
Do we want to talk aboutthings I sold first?
How do we wanna, let's do subject first.
'cause we finish thethird, maybe the third.
It's third installment.
We don't know yet.
I think this is the third installof the, we've done kitchen.
(18:27):
This is the third installment for sure.
We might go, yeah, we got kitchen,garage, kitchen, and now garage.
And now because of something you said.
Had a previous episode about junkdrawer, it made me think that's
not exactly a room, but that is athing that most people know about.
Hey, yeah, I got a junk drawer.
Everyone's got a junk drawer.
My wife calls it the miscellaneousdrawer, but my daughter and I
refuse to bow to her evil plans,and we call it the junk drawer.
(18:50):
She gets mad every time.
It's not a junk drawer, like it's filledwith junk, therefore it's the junk drawer.
Mm-hmm.
But go ahead.
Yeah, a lot of times I would saythat more often than not the junk
drawer is in either the kitchen.
Or in a hallway.
Would you agree with that?
Yes.
Experience.
It's always the kitchen,but the kitchen, yeah.
It could be in the hallway somewhere.
Ours.
Hey, listen, ours is inthe kitchen, that's ours.
(19:12):
Wait, you have one too, Matt?
I do.
It is.
I would say it's junk, but my wife'spretty, when the Marie Kondo stuff
came out and it was like all the,decluttering and organizing and
stuff, oh man, that was just, thatwas speaking her language so hard.
She's been that kind of person fora long time, and so she's good about
keeping that stuff pretty organized.
I would say it's only 10% junk.
(19:33):
The rest of it is intentionallyin there for easy.
Access a screwdriver.
I don't wanna have to walkdownstairs and go to the garage.
Find the screwdriver.
Just keep one.
One of a standard size,one of a smaller one there.
You can just grab it when you need it.
It's more of a, I think youmentioned sport, like a utility.
It's like a utility.
Mm-hmm.
Drawer.
But we're gonna talk aboutthings in that space.
(19:53):
And listener.
If you're at home, maybe you're on thecar, but if you're at home, yeah, just
take a little walk over the junk tour.
Open that puppy up.
And just view what's before youand maybe some of this will fit.
So I'm gonna talk about, I'm not gonnaspend a lot of time on each one because I
want to actually give you several ideas.
One thing that I think is commonin junk words would be pens,
ink, pens, writing instruments.
(20:15):
Mm-hmm.
Pencils, pens.
So you should know that certain typesof mechanical pencils, vintage ones.
Ones that usually you turnthem to make the lead come out
versus clicking them at the end.
It seems like that was mm-hmm.
An earlier iteration of that, technology,sometimes those can be made out of
(20:35):
sterling silver or can be silver plated.
People will buy just the fillerjust the the lead themselves.
'cause you can get different sizes andhardnesses of lead, but nobody wants to
go out to a store or buy pencil lead.
But you can find whole lots ofthose on eBay selling all the time.
And some very specific brands orspecific sizes can sell for quite a bit.
(21:00):
'cause a person's needing thatspecific size for their, whatever
they're using their pencil.
Maybe it's made for art purposes ormaybe it's just for regular writing,
but if you have some of that loose,laying around there, sometimes people
will grab those, they're cleaningit out and they're like, oh, I don't
ever use mechanical pencils anymore.
You just grab some of that.
Oh, this isn't even like, it's half full.
No one's gonna want this.
You pitch it.
I don't pitch that.
(21:21):
That has some value.
It may or may not be worth yourtime, depending on what you think
you can earn, but do some research.
Look that up.
So pencils and pencil lids.
Also, certain types of inkpins, particularly older ones
that still work, if they havesome cool advertising on them.
Like I came across one the other daythat is an older Wells Fargo bank.
(21:43):
But the back part of it actuallyhas like a clear window.
It has liquid inside of it.
And the background, it's like ascene of like a country western
with the Wells Fargo old buggywith a person riding a horse.
And if you turn it to one side, it'sslides down, towards one direction.
If you turn back, goesthe back the other way.
It's just a cool thing.
Oh, that's awesome.
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They didn't make a lot of those,but those things are selling
for 20, 30 bucks or more.
That kind of thing.
So if you have, sometimes there's inkpens that used to, I dunno if you've
ever seen an ink, pens where you'dclick them and they again, have a
window and it has a calendar on it.
So some of those might have a calendar fora particular year or a particular month.
People will sometimes collectones for different years or
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maybe they want different colors.
But then advertising from old oiland gas places, old gas stations.
At one time this was verycommon on matchbooks.
On ink pins, writing instruments was oneprimary way of advertising your business.
If you had a restaurant, if youhad a gas station, if you were, oh
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yeah, an automotive repair place.
You had these pins and thesematchbooks branded on one side with
your stuff, and that was for youto take that you were encouraged to
take them because they want you athome writing and looking at your pen.
Oh yeah.
Time to get that oil change again.
Over at Jebs, oil and lubeor whatever they called it.
Yeah.
So Jeb Jebs.
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Crazy Jeb, that's that's the kindof thing that can have value.
Those are collectible things.
And then the last thingI'll say is fountain pins.
This might be the most valuablepotentially of all of them now.
Fountain pins tend to, if they'releft for a long time and not used or
opened up, that ink inside can dry.
They can start to rust.
It can be hard.
Some of those components may notwork real well, but if you have ones
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in good condition or particularly.
Sought after brands.
There's Parkers and there'sSchaffer, and there's Mont Blanc.
Those are really high end, but maybeit was a gift you got from maybe
your grandparents got that for youwhen you graduated high school and it
was like too valuable to throw away.
But you don't really use fountain pins.
It's still there.
That's like a four or $500 ink pin people.
Yeah, you didn't know that.
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So the other thing about these zincpins, and by the way, they can have
value whether they're functional or not.
'cause people have fun at thehobby, getting those, restoring
them, getting new ink fillersand bringing them back to life.
But a lot of times though, thetips on those fountain pins
can be made outta solid gold.
14 karat gold, 18 karat gold.
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And they'll say it on there.
Now if you pull it off and there's inkon it, you might have to wash that ink
off to see, but it might be solid gold.
That gold by itself might weigh a gram.
You know that?
14 karat gold.
$64 a gram today.
So just the gold on that?
Yeah.
Could be worth $64.
Don't pitch that thing.
Just 'cause it doesn't work.
Okay, so ink, pens.
Pens.
Writing instruments.
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Another thing common is scissors.
You got scissors in your junk drawer.
Oh yeah.
Several.
Several.
So different types of scissors.
Again, usually olderkinds with certain brands.
A lot of times oldGerman brands like Klau.
There's a brand called WISS.
Made various types and even smallerscissors that were made for sewing.
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I've bought and sold many of thosetiny pairs, if you've ever seen them.
They look like a bird,almost like a crane.
So it's like the legs come down to thefinger holes, and as it goes up, it's
shaped like the head of a bird and thenthe scissor part, the cutters is, looks
like the beak of a bird, and they're cool.
Sometimes those can be made outtasterling silver or even gold, but just
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basic ones can sell for 20 or $30.
Sometimes you can go to a thrift store.
I know this is outta the house, butyou can find a little sewing basket
that has just some thread and somestuff, and you think, oh, that's
not valuable, but it could have somesilver or gold thimbles in that.
And oftentimes we'll havea pair of sewing scissors.
You could pay $5 for that andsell just the scissors outta
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there for 20 or 30 bucks.
I've done it dozens of times.
Dozens of times.
Really?
Yes.
Huh.
And you don't even haveto sell the thread.
You can if you want, but maybe thethread and stuff's not valuable, but
you're really getting it for the thing.
The item in there that you know will sell.
So scissors, if they'regood condition, large ones.
There are different types.
There are scissors that are for cuttingdifferent designs in fabric as you cut it.
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There are ones that are really big.
They're even shears that were.
Made for actually cuttingwool things off of.
Of animals.
Or leather.
Or leather.
Exactly.
So there's different types.
Some can be really ornate,ornately etched, maybe they
have enamel paint on them.
All of these features can besomething that a buyer's looking for.
So look for scissors.
So we got ink, pens,pencils, scissors, staplers.
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That's another thing that maybenot so many people use today, as
in yesteryear, but there are stilllittle handheld sci not scissors,
staplers that can have big value.
Certain brands and certain models becausea company might put out several different
types of products, different sizes,different shapes, different colors.
There's people who collect thoseand even people who buy the
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older ones just 'cause they know.
Look at that right there.
What do you got?
We got a swing line.
This stapler could be used as a bludgeon.
It is so heavy.
Yeah.
This staple, going back to the weaponsconversation, you don't need a gun.
Carry an old stapler around with you.
This stapler came out of mydad's office from like the.
Probably got this in the 1950s.
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Oh man.
And I've still, it still works.
Like I keep it.
It's my favorite.
I'll never get rid of it.
They'll take it out.
But I use it as when I was a teacher.
Yes.
It used to have the little blackplastic or something on there.
It makes me think of what teachers, I wasjust thinking about my third grade art
teacher, that was his, that's his stapler.
It definitely could be in thejunk drawer, but they truly don't
make these like this anymore.
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No, that's heavy duty.
That's not gonna bind upon you like the newer ones.
No.
That are made of plastic and stuff.
You break it and you just pitch it.
They made things to last back then.
I'm gonna hold one up righthere that I have on my desk.
Oh.
And this was a brand called Baits and ithas this baits on it and it says 88 p.
That's perfect because I can get on eBayand look up Bates 88 p stapler and I'm
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gonna see, eh, maybe 14 bucks, 20 bucks.
Shoot, wouldn't you rather have $20in your pocket rather than just pitch
this in the trash because you don't,you don't use it or donate it because
someone is like me is gonna buy it atthat thrift store and laugh all the way
home because we know that it can sell.
So I would definitely keep an eye on that.
I have a different one.
I have one that's more of a roundedhandheld one, but I also have a large
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heavier duty one just like yours that Ikeep as well, because you never know when
you need to stick something together.
Who knew that this was, that swing lineswere made in Long Island, New York.
Well, this has got all sorts of writing.
I'm gonna go on and doa little experiment.
I'm gonna find out.
You should, what would somethinglike this go for on eBay?
Listen, let's do a quick thing here.
I don't think it's gonna mess with therecording if I do this, but I'm gonna
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very quickly 'cause I'm on my computer.
I'm gonna bounce over first.
I'm gonna look up mine.
I'm gonna look up Bates.
Here we go.
Bates 88 p. And I don'teven have to put in stapler.
It just pops it up for me.
I'm gonna look at sold items here.
I'm gonna look at the highest, I justwanna see what's the highest one.
Yeah, so the highest pricedone that sold as an individual.
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It was only $13, but it was $6Shipping, probably only cost $4 to ship.
And it's useful.
Yours does a swing line.
Do you know what the model is?
Does it say?
Or size?
Oh, it's got all, it says94 dash oh two is on there.
There we go.
That's all I need.
94. Dash O2 and we're gonna, we'regonna see what this puppy, imagine
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there were a lot of this made 'causeit's large, but yeah, here's one
that's in like a burgundy color.
$35. Lemme find a metal, one like yours.
Silver one.
Yeah.
Here's one for $16.
Here's one's for $24.
And so some people might look at thatand say, I don't staple things anymore.
And besides it's the metal is or the paintjob on the top is kind of scraped off.
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Nobody wants that wrong.
There's somebody who's buying that today.
On eBay.
Alright, listen, whether you'relistening to part one or part two,
remember to follow, like, and subscribe.
It's super helpful to us.
We really appreciate everybody.
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Hopefully you picked up something thatyou can make a little moolah from.
Moolah being cash cashola.
From this week, facts stack of cash.
Otherwise, we, that isall the time we have.
We'll be back with a brand newshow or part two depending on when
you're listening to this next week.
And so we hope everybody has a great week.
We'll talk with you soon.
Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
Truly a place where allyour dreams come true.
When you're out there and you'relistening, you're driving in there.
I know mine are, I knowall my dreams coming.
When you're your VW Bug and you'retooling around going to estate sales,
and yard sales and thrift stores.
This is just a little pieceof podcast gold for you.
(01:02):
Does, it fuels you.
It fuels your soul.
So that when you walk in with confidence.
This is gonna age me a little bit,but do you remember that Stuart
Smalley from Saturday Night Live?
Oh yeah.
He would stare into the mirror andsay, you're good enough, you're
smart enough, and Dogg on it.
People like you.
Yeah.
We're the Stuart Smalleyof the reselling world.
Yeah.
I'm really beginning to believe that.
Oh I appreciate that.
(01:23):
That's sweet.
That would be a funny intro to a video.
Is this just ripping thatoff, but it being Rusty.
Doing that into am mirror.
Like that's his prep workbefore he leaves to go out.
Oh, that's would be rich.
Brilliant man.
That is brilliant.
I'm good enough.
Smart enough.
That's people love me's, that's a actor.
He's a, he's in politics now, right?
Or he was at one pointthe actor who did that.
(01:44):
Yeah.
He, until he got booted out of the Senate.
Al Franken, I can't remember.
Al Franken.
Yep.
Al Franken.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah.
Al Franken.
So we are, when you're out therelistening to the dulcet tones.
Of Brandon and Matt.
Just remember that we are just alittle piece of encouragement to you.
That's right.
In daily travails as youbattle a bright spot.
A bright spot, if you will.
(02:05):
If I had a VW bud that bugg that I drovearound picking up stuff in, it would
need to be like a bright orange or a limegreen or something, a statement color.
So that when people saw you, there wasno, oh, I wonder if, Matt's coming to
this thing, they see you coming froma and that could be a good or bad.
It's either oh, cool, or it's like a. Oh,this guy again, I feel like you should
be driving a, it's not gonna be a VW bug.
(02:27):
It's gonna be a VW van.
Mm-hmm.
Painted bright green and on the sideit's gonna have like clown balloons,
but it's gonna say the reseller Yeah.
On both sides.
And then the back will be covered withstickers for all over the e found it's.
Friends of mine have told me thingslike Rusty he, his spirit animal
would be like a kind of a rough.
Old Thunderbird with the birdon the, it's like rusted sides.
(02:50):
And he's so proud of that thing.
Yeah, he got it at a, on a deal.
He got a deal and he doesn'tknow how to shift it correctly.
So every time you're drivingby people are like, God, does
that guy know what he's doing?
And he's just playing tocram stuff in the trunk.
Doesn't yeah, anymore.
He has to use bungee cords tohold it down because it's, yeah.
It's too much in there.
It's falling out on the road.
I was driving behind the guythe other day and he was.
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An older fella and probably hisson, and they were in an old pickup
truck that had seen better days.
It did not have a hood anymore.
Okay.
So you're just looking at theengine and in the back was just.
Filled with junk.
Like overflowing.
I was thinking to myself, Idon't want to go behind him.
Yeah.
Because something's inevitable.
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Bounce up and freezercrack your windshield.
A bowling ball.
Yeah, something's, oh,no, it's gonna kill me.
It's gonna be like a spear's gonnafly right through my windshield.
Oh, man.
Kill me off of the back.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Chill.
Sorry for the children, the imagery outthere for the young prospective resellers.
I'll note that as a thing.
Yeah I'll put that in the show notes.
If this is an adult only episode as.
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Brandon has been impaled by the junk band,but I did think that, wow, what did I,
I always think about now, you and yourworld, and that is the strata of people in
the reselling world is truly fascinating.
The so cake, the band cake,they had that first album came
out when I was in high school.
Yeah.
And there's a song on there that thelyrics go something like, there's a
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man, sitting, collecting stamps ina room filled with Chinese lamps.
And I, it makes me think ofRusty, everyone's asleep.
But at one in the morning, he's downin this cluttered, room, it's dimly
lit by a hundred year old lamps thathe's rewired and he's like feverishly
searching his 20-year-old stampbooks to see, what value this has.
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I don't do that, by the way,but we can imagine, yeah, that
Rusty would do that for sure.
For sure Rusty would do that, buthe would have to do it in between.
Tending to a still.
I do live by a little creek down hereand we live in the Appalachian ones.
Yeah there's I dunno if it's still open.
Navita, is that still open?
The big high ropes area where youcan go and pay and they, okay.
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So it's, I have no idea.
It's out here north of Asheville, maybeout towards Weaverville, that area.
But when you're out there, they say thateven still the last time I was there.
The little creeks and streams and stuffthat run through this large property.
Out in the wilderness, they foundmultiple stills that people had gone
way out in the woods and created.
And they've got all like holes in thembecause of the, what do they call 'em,
(05:17):
like the revenues or they would comeand they would, they, a TF of the day.
They would come and they would bust 'em.
They'd just pop holes in them.
Here's your copper, right?
Yeah.
You shouldn't have been doing this.
They arrest you.
Or if they just discover it andyou're not around, they're gonna
destroy it so it can't be used again.
That can legitimately be foundall over Western North Carolina.
Probably in Kentucky, Tennessee.
Oh, I guarantee you.
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In Kentucky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's an interesting, it's an interestingpiece of history during prohibition.
People are like it's not thatI'm not gonna drink anymore.
It just means I'm gonna haveto do a little work now.
I don't just, I don't justjump on the horse and go down.
I gotta read some books.
I gotta figure out how to do this.
Isn't that what LaGuardia did?
The mayor of New York wherehe went on camera during
prohibition and he created beer.
(05:59):
He showed people how to make beer.
Oh.
From local, from stuff youcould get at the grocery store.
That's hilarious.
I don't know about that, but that's cool.
He did it to show thatthe ludicrous nature of.
Prohibition.
Yeah, it's kinda like that.
This is terribly illegal.
So just so you know what not to doyou certainly don't start with this
and you don't put these together.
You don't wait this long.
Please don't do that.
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Oh, okay.
No, he did it the exact opposite.
He said, this is completely illegal.
You could put this together and make beer.
There was no law against it.
Right.
He's, but he's essentially teachingpeople how to do it under the guise of,
I'm educating you on what not to do,but yeah, you're gonna do what you do.
Yeah.
Bathtub gin and all that stuff.
Yeah.
I, we all know that proprohibition did not end well.
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It's very tough toprohibit certain things.
I think that they were more, I thinkI read that there were more entities
creating alcohol by far duringprohibition than I. Prior to it.
It was 'cause it was the, it waslike the forbidden thing now.
Right.
And people were like, youdon't tell me what to do.
Yeah.
I didn't care about making it before.
Now I'm gonna make it andsell it outta my basement.
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Well, right.
And that's why bottledin bond, which is Yep.
When you see a bondedwarehouses, the government.
Yeah.
Yep.
So that they knew that it was actuallymade with, it didn't have poisons in it.
Yeah.
They took care of thefirst line of alcohol.
The, what is it?
The heads, the hearts and the tails.
I think you, it's the heads you getrid of and the heart and the tails.
The hearts are the best and the tails.
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Otherwise it causes your your opticalnerve to detach from your retina.
And that is what caused the blindnesswhen they talked about moonshine.
Oh, you'll go blind.
Right?
You legitimately could go blind ifyou didn't know that there's certain
alcohols that will be poisonous.
Yeah.
Or it could kill you.
There's all sorts of terriblethings that happened because
of it, that What was that?
There was a cir, a book abouta circus, I can't remember now.
But there was a guy in the thing thatdrank some bad alcohol and died from it.
(07:43):
Anyway, but we digress, man.
This certainly is not anepisode for the children.
This is definitely the most adult episode.
We've, wait.
We talked about two deaths in here, Matt.
It's okay.
Three is when you don't want the kids inthe room when you get to the third death.
By the way, I, this is an absolutelynothing to do with the What Soul Podcast.
Bring it.
(08:04):
I just love it.
So much that I wanna share itwith people that are out there.
If you were looking for a story podcastthat is about Appalachia and is done
in an incredible production way, itis called The Old Gods of Appalachia.
It is a, it's almost like a dramashow, like the old time radio shows
they would do, and it's this guy,he's got the most incredible voice.
(08:29):
Produced by you.
This is like a selfless plug.
No, I wish it was produced by me.
It's produced by agroup called Nerd Media.
I think they're actually out of England,but they produce this and it's a guy, I
think he's local to the area somewhere.
I don't even know some thatcould be an apocryphal story.
I don't know.
But it is five seasons.
If you're just driving aroundas a reseller and you wanna
find a show that sort of.
(08:50):
Sums up Apple.
It's a gothic horrorshow, so just be aware.
Again, this is an adult showtonight, earmuffs Children.
I highly earmuffs kids on this part.
I highly recommend it.
Anyway, that's nothing to do withwhat we're talking about today.
Very cool.
Very cool.
I'm obsessed with this podcast show.
I'll have to check it out.
Alright, Matt, that one person,grumpy seller, 4 33, who says what?
(09:10):
Do you get to the thing that's the part ofthe show where you could just skip ahead?
Yeah, guys, in case you didn'tknow, just skip all of that.
You can start right now.
Right.
So Matt, this has been anotherone of those crazy weeks.
I won't get too far into the weeds orshow you guys how the sauce is made, but
Matt is, he's like lightning in a bottle.
You gotta be aware when you work withMatt that it could just, he might have
(09:31):
just like, Hey Brandon, I gotta go.
I've gotta, I gotta dig up a cellar.
Somebody called me, they want,they got a root cellar and
they got some stuff in there.
You could be mesmerized or youcould end up in the hospital.
It's again, it's a roll of the dice.
Every time it's a roll the dice.
And he'll be like, I can't recordright now because I've gotta go.
Somebody said they found an oldworld War II nuclear bunker.
(09:52):
That's right.
There's some stuff in there.
Yeah, it could happen.
They've asked me to go decommission a, anold World War two bomb that they found.
We gotta dig a trench around it andwe gotta, we're see, we're gonna
see if we can sell it on eBay.
That's right.
You went today toanother in a estate sale.
What did you do?
'cause you had something.
Yeah, I did.
And first of all, it's a beautiful day.
It's like 72 and it's like perfect.
It's gorgeous.
Absolute perfect weather today.
(10:13):
I went to an estate salethis morning at 10 o'clock.
It's the same one that youand I went to, if you recall.
Oh yeah.
And I work with that gentleman now.
Very nice guy.
But as you recall, when wewere at the last one, it was
quite cold and we got there.
I got there pretty early.
You came a little afterme, but we were there.
We stood in line for a while, please.
Quite a few people.
Am I right?
And we were just on one side.
(10:33):
You can line up in the front and the back.
Yeah.
Oh, that's probably 50 people waiting.
I got there at about nine 20.
So only 40 minutes ahead of time.
First one in line.
Really on such a gorgeous day.
Now it has everything to do withthe types of items that were there.
The time we went, there was a tonof jewelry, a ton of watches, a
bunch of collectible things andthe people came out for that Today,
(10:55):
arguably not as valuable things.
Maybe things that aren't as interestingto people also have, as we've alluded
to my experience lately, has beenthere's been a bit of a shift in sales.
Sales have been a little bit lower.
I don't think that it's acoincidence that there's been
some turbulence with the economy.
There's been some fear and some rhetoric.
Who knows what to believe andpeople are left with, in case it
(11:18):
gets bad, maybe I need to not bebuying some extra things right now.
Maybe I, whatever.
And so I think that's part of it.
There are people also who are in thebusiness, who are, one of the changes
they're making is, I just need tonot spend as much, which I haven't
been doing either, but it's morebecause I'm, I've shifted and I'm
selling more for other people, andso the product is coming to me now.
I don't have to spend money.
(11:38):
But all that to say, I was in line.
Awesome.
Chatted a little bit.
I even brought a little tub with me, likea little plastic tub because I knew that
there were a few things that there werevarious ones and it would be too hard for
me to just collect them with my hands.
So I brought a tub.
So he opens the door, I go in,first thing I go to is a couple of
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these little old, I say they're old.
They're actually either reproductionsor their newer ones made to look
old that either are mirroringold ones or not, but like oil and
gas signs or like old marketing.
Advertising type signs.
And it's just like one, my dad likes that.
Like I may, it's probably one ofthose who's gonna go to him for
Father's Day or something, and thenthere's a table full of gun holsters.
(12:22):
Oh, gun holsters.
In their unused, in theiroriginal packaging, there were
probably around 35 to 40 of them.
And.
95 plus percent of them were leather,like stitched leather, nice things.
And prior to going, I didn't exactlyknow the brands and things, but I
just wanted to see, okay, I've notreally researched gun holsters 'cause
I'm not a gun aficionado or anything.
(12:44):
And so I got on eBay.
Lo and behold.
Would you venture to guess the holsterfor which type of gun on eBay sells?
I know that's a very specific question,but would you guess what are the most.
Valuable, highest priced or, thehighest purchase price holster.
What type of gun does it hold?
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A Glock.
You would.
Nine millimeter.
It's not.
And I, so the next the hint wouldbe, it's an old, it's a vintage.
It would be an older, the Col sixshooter, col colt, the old classic cult.
1911 Colt.
1911 Holsters.
Are selling four hundreds.
I have a 1911, a hundred, 200, $300.
Really?
For a, for just a holster that holdsit like a, so for the audience,
(13:25):
it's not a gun fishing auto.
A 1911 is the, if you can imagine, maybeyou saw a World War II movie or something.
The lieutenant would have a sidearm.
He would have a pistol.
Mm-hmm.
And it's a 45.
It's called the 1911.
It's a type of that'sthe caliber 45 caliber.
Yep.
And the 1911 is a very specific.
Type of, I actually own one.
(13:45):
I got it years ago because Ijust thought it looked so cool.
It is a very iconic looking Yes weapon.
And along with that otherColt, like single action army
pistols, revolver pistols, whichare also highly collectible.
And then there are some others thatare specialized Beretta or this and
that, and then getting into newer ones.
But because a lot of these pistolsyou mentioned like a Glock, that's
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one of the highest selling brandsof pistol today, and there are.
Holsters and holders for this.
Ah, but for an older, like a 80,a hundred year old pistol, they're
not like making a ton of leatherholster for those things today.
Right.
And if they are, you're gonna,you're gonna pay up for 'em.
'cause there aren't as many of them.
All that to say, I walk in.
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I just cleared that table.
They were $10 a piece is whatthey wanted for $10 a piece,
brand new in the packaging.
I bought 32 of them, so I spent $320 on32 holders, but most of them are leather
and we're talking bottom dollar, 30 to$40 for these is what they'll sell for
possibly in the hundreds on some of them.
So I expect to, for that $320 purchase,I'm probably gonna make six to $800,
(14:53):
possibly more and profit off of those.
And listen, if I wenttoday to a pawn shop.
If I went today to a pawn shop, Icould sell these there and make the
money immediately if I wanted to.
I wouldn't make as much.
Wait, who's wearing the holsters?
Are guys walking around with a holster?
Oh yeah.
We're in North Carolina.
People who don't know thisrecently legislation was passed.
Now you can open carry without a permit.
(15:15):
Weapons in the sort instate of North Carolina.
So a person could buy a, come tome, could buy or go to a pawn shop
right now who that sells weapons.
Buy a holster, put their,they could buy a weapon.
They stick that in their holster and walk.
Exposed.
This is not a show about likeopinions about whether or not
that's good or bad or any of that.
I'm just, that's it'sa fact you can do that.
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I like to see myself I would liketo, if I was ever gonna wear a gun
with a holster again, is I would do.
I'd go full cowboy.
I would wear like chaps.
One on either side.
You would also have on one side butreverse, no, they have to be reversed.
So you have to reach across to pull'em like the old Western westerns.
Fair enough.
That's, yeah, that's how I would do it.
So I would do it thatway, but I'd also have.
Do you remember what was the movie?
Snake Eyes With the Nicholas Cage.
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Okay.
Yes.
He had these two gold plated gunsthat he had side by side in the back.
I'd have those as well.
On one ankle I'd have one, andthen I'd have like a gaucho knife
in my boot on the other one.
Of course, I'd be armed to the tee.
Yeah, you can't be, youcan't be prepared enough.
By the way, everyone, itsounds like I know about guns.
Not only is this the.
A hundred percent ofwhat I know about fire.
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I've overextended myself, itsounds like I know more than I do.
90% of this I learned this morningbefore I went to this estate sale.
But all that to say it was really cool.
I got all these, I haven'tsold them yet, but I'm excited.
I will give updates on that.
And then I went and got a variousother things, a box of old comic books.
I got some pocket knives.
I bought a Carson CityMorgan Dollar from 8 18 78.
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I think it's a date.
Carson City, Nevada.
Yeah.
So for Morgan dollars Oh, cool.
Silver dollars.
Silver dollars, mm-hmm.
Made in the 18 hundreds, late18 hundreds, maybe even early 19
hundreds there were different mints.
There's, there's like Philadelphia,the OI think it's maybe San Francisco.
There's a D or whatever.
And, but the cc, if you get a CarsonCity one, it's a mint that fewer were
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minted there than any other mint.
And the mint was not activeas long as the others.
And so Carson City Morgan dollars tend to.
Almost always sell for highervalues on average than one
minted in the other place.
Wow.
Just in case you're wondering if youever go to a pawn shop and you see
a bunch of Morgan dollars, look onthe back of them above the eagle,
or actually it's below the eagle.
What's the Morgan dollar?
Well, that's what they call it.
It's got a specific look.
(17:25):
In fact, I will.
I may even show the one I bought here,if I can grab it in a second to Yeah.
I can always throw apicture up in the show too.
Yeah, that's what they call them anyways.
They're very collectibleas a silver dollar.
So I got that.
A couple other things, I washappy about it, but I was a
little behind the curtain here.
I was a little late gettingon today 'cause I was in it,
I was sorting that stuff.
I was not thinking about time.
(17:46):
I get a text from Brandon Hey,should we just shut this down or
are you gonna fully commit ever?
Sorry.
Sorry about that.
I did not say that.
I just said, are you joining?
That's all I said people.
I did not chastise him.
He did.
He is kind.
That's true.
I paint you with darker shades there.
I'm, I am the task master on the show.
I'm the, I gotta get things done.
That's right.
We got, I need that.
We got that.
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People to please, Hey, listen, we can'tbe that ray of sunshine for that seller
that's driving around in their VW bug.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
If you don't get on and be withus, Matt, that's the bottom line.
That is true.
What do we wanna, whatdo we wanna touch on?
Do we want to talk about a subject?
Do we want to talk aboutthings I sold first?
How do we wanna, let's do subject first.
'cause we finish thethird, maybe the third.
It's third installment.
We don't know yet.
I think this is the third installof the, we've done kitchen.
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This is the third installment for sure.
We might go, yeah, we got kitchen,garage, kitchen, and now garage.
And now because of something you said.
Had a previous episode about junkdrawer, it made me think that's
not exactly a room, but that is athing that most people know about.
Hey, yeah, I got a junk drawer.
Everyone's got a junk drawer.
My wife calls it the miscellaneousdrawer, but my daughter and I
refuse to bow to her evil plans,and we call it the junk drawer.
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She gets mad every time.
It's not a junk drawer, like it's filledwith junk, therefore it's the junk drawer.
Mm-hmm.
But go ahead.
Yeah, a lot of times I would saythat more often than not the junk
drawer is in either the kitchen.
Or in a hallway.
Would you agree with that?
Yes.
Experience.
It's always the kitchen,but the kitchen, yeah.
It could be in the hallway somewhere.
Ours.
Hey, listen, ours is inthe kitchen, that's ours.
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Wait, you have one too, Matt?
I do.
It is.
I would say it's junk, but my wife'spretty, when the Marie Kondo stuff
came out and it was like all the,decluttering and organizing and
stuff, oh man, that was just, thatwas speaking her language so hard.
She's been that kind of person fora long time, and so she's good about
keeping that stuff pretty organized.
I would say it's only 10% junk.
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The rest of it is intentionallyin there for easy.
Access a screwdriver.
I don't wanna have to walkdownstairs and go to the garage.
Find the screwdriver.
Just keep one.
One of a standard size,one of a smaller one there.
You can just grab it when you need it.
It's more of a, I think youmentioned sport, like a utility.
It's like a utility.
Mm-hmm.
Drawer.
But we're gonna talk aboutthings in that space.
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And listener.
If you're at home, maybe you're on thecar, but if you're at home, yeah, just
take a little walk over the junk tour.
Open that puppy up.
And just view what's before youand maybe some of this will fit.
So I'm gonna talk about, I'm not gonnaspend a lot of time on each one because I
want to actually give you several ideas.
One thing that I think is commonin junk words would be pens,
ink, pens, writing instruments.
(20:15):
Mm-hmm.
Pencils, pens.
So you should know that certain typesof mechanical pencils, vintage ones.
Ones that usually you turnthem to make the lead come out
versus clicking them at the end.
It seems like that was mm-hmm.
An earlier iteration of that, technology,sometimes those can be made out of
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sterling silver or can be silver plated.
People will buy just the fillerjust the the lead themselves.
'cause you can get different sizes andhardnesses of lead, but nobody wants to
go out to a store or buy pencil lead.
But you can find whole lots ofthose on eBay selling all the time.
And some very specific brands orspecific sizes can sell for quite a bit.
(21:00):
'cause a person's needing thatspecific size for their, whatever
they're using their pencil.
Maybe it's made for art purposes ormaybe it's just for regular writing,
but if you have some of that loose,laying around there, sometimes people
will grab those, they're cleaningit out and they're like, oh, I don't
ever use mechanical pencils anymore.
You just grab some of that.
Oh, this isn't even like, it's half full.
No one's gonna want this.
You pitch it.
I don't pitch that.
(21:21):
That has some value.
It may or may not be worth yourtime, depending on what you think
you can earn, but do some research.
Look that up.
So pencils and pencil lids.
Also, certain types of inkpins, particularly older ones
that still work, if they havesome cool advertising on them.
Like I came across one the other daythat is an older Wells Fargo bank.
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But the back part of it actuallyhas like a clear window.
It has liquid inside of it.
And the background, it's like ascene of like a country western
with the Wells Fargo old buggywith a person riding a horse.
And if you turn it to one side, it'sslides down, towards one direction.
If you turn back, goesthe back the other way.
It's just a cool thing.
Oh, that's awesome.
(22:04):
They didn't make a lot of those,but those things are selling
for 20, 30 bucks or more.
That kind of thing.
So if you have, sometimes there's inkpens that used to, I dunno if you've
ever seen an ink, pens where you'dclick them and they again, have a
window and it has a calendar on it.
So some of those might have a calendar fora particular year or a particular month.
People will sometimes collectones for different years or
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maybe they want different colors.
But then advertising from old oiland gas places, old gas stations.
At one time this was verycommon on matchbooks.
On ink pins, writing instruments was oneprimary way of advertising your business.
If you had a restaurant, if youhad a gas station, if you were, oh
(22:46):
yeah, an automotive repair place.
You had these pins and thesematchbooks branded on one side with
your stuff, and that was for youto take that you were encouraged to
take them because they want you athome writing and looking at your pen.
Oh yeah.
Time to get that oil change again.
Over at Jebs, oil and lubeor whatever they called it.
Yeah.
So Jeb Jebs.
(23:07):
Crazy Jeb, that's that's the kindof thing that can have value.
Those are collectible things.
And then the last thingI'll say is fountain pins.
This might be the most valuablepotentially of all of them now.
Fountain pins tend to, if they'releft for a long time and not used or
opened up, that ink inside can dry.
They can start to rust.
It can be hard.
Some of those components may notwork real well, but if you have ones
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in good condition or particularly.
Sought after brands.
There's Parkers and there'sSchaffer, and there's Mont Blanc.
Those are really high end, but maybeit was a gift you got from maybe
your grandparents got that for youwhen you graduated high school and it
was like too valuable to throw away.
But you don't really use fountain pins.
It's still there.
That's like a four or $500 ink pin people.
Yeah, you didn't know that.
(23:49):
So the other thing about these zincpins, and by the way, they can have
value whether they're functional or not.
'cause people have fun at thehobby, getting those, restoring
them, getting new ink fillersand bringing them back to life.
But a lot of times though, thetips on those fountain pins
can be made outta solid gold.
14 karat gold, 18 karat gold.
(24:09):
And they'll say it on there.
Now if you pull it off and there's inkon it, you might have to wash that ink
off to see, but it might be solid gold.
That gold by itself might weigh a gram.
You know that?
14 karat gold.
$64 a gram today.
So just the gold on that?
Yeah.
Could be worth $64.
Don't pitch that thing.
Just 'cause it doesn't work.
Okay, so ink, pens.
Pens.
Writing instruments.
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Another thing common is scissors.
You got scissors in your junk drawer.
Oh yeah.
Several.
Several.
So different types of scissors.
Again, usually olderkinds with certain brands.
A lot of times oldGerman brands like Klau.
There's a brand called WISS.
Made various types and even smallerscissors that were made for sewing.
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I've bought and sold many of thosetiny pairs, if you've ever seen them.
They look like a bird,almost like a crane.
So it's like the legs come down to thefinger holes, and as it goes up, it's
shaped like the head of a bird and thenthe scissor part, the cutters is, looks
like the beak of a bird, and they're cool.
Sometimes those can be made outtasterling silver or even gold, but just
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basic ones can sell for 20 or $30.
Sometimes you can go to a thrift store.
I know this is outta the house, butyou can find a little sewing basket
that has just some thread and somestuff, and you think, oh, that's
not valuable, but it could have somesilver or gold thimbles in that.
And oftentimes we'll havea pair of sewing scissors.
You could pay $5 for that andsell just the scissors outta
(25:39):
there for 20 or 30 bucks.
I've done it dozens of times.
Dozens of times.
Really?
Yes.
Huh.
And you don't even haveto sell the thread.
You can if you want, but maybe thethread and stuff's not valuable, but
you're really getting it for the thing.
The item in there that you know will sell.
So scissors, if they'regood condition, large ones.
There are different types.
There are scissors that are for cuttingdifferent designs in fabric as you cut it.
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There are ones that are really big.
They're even shears that were.
Made for actually cuttingwool things off of.
Of animals.
Or leather.
Or leather.
Exactly.
So there's different types.
Some can be really ornate,ornately etched, maybe they
have enamel paint on them.
All of these features can besomething that a buyer's looking for.
So look for scissors.
So we got ink, pens,pencils, scissors, staplers.
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That's another thing that maybenot so many people use today, as
in yesteryear, but there are stilllittle handheld sci not scissors,
staplers that can have big value.
Certain brands and certain models becausea company might put out several different
types of products, different sizes,different shapes, different colors.
There's people who collect thoseand even people who buy the
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older ones just 'cause they know.
Look at that right there.
What do you got?
We got a swing line.
This stapler could be used as a bludgeon.
It is so heavy.
Yeah.
This staple, going back to the weaponsconversation, you don't need a gun.
Carry an old stapler around with you.
This stapler came out of mydad's office from like the.
Probably got this in the 1950s.
(27:08):
Oh man.
And I've still, it still works.
Like I keep it.
It's my favorite.
I'll never get rid of it.
They'll take it out.
But I use it as when I was a teacher.
Yes.
It used to have the little blackplastic or something on there.
It makes me think of what teachers, I wasjust thinking about my third grade art
teacher, that was his, that's his stapler.
It definitely could be in thejunk drawer, but they truly don't
make these like this anymore.
(27:28):
No, that's heavy duty.
That's not gonna bind upon you like the newer ones.
No.
That are made of plastic and stuff.
You break it and you just pitch it.
They made things to last back then.
I'm gonna hold one up righthere that I have on my desk.
Oh.
And this was a brand called Baits and ithas this baits on it and it says 88 p.
That's perfect because I can get on eBayand look up Bates 88 p stapler and I'm
(27:49):
gonna see, eh, maybe 14 bucks, 20 bucks.
Shoot, wouldn't you rather have $20in your pocket rather than just pitch
this in the trash because you don't,you don't use it or donate it because
someone is like me is gonna buy it atthat thrift store and laugh all the way
home because we know that it can sell.
So I would definitely keep an eye on that.
I have a different one.
I have one that's more of a roundedhandheld one, but I also have a large
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heavier duty one just like yours that Ikeep as well, because you never know when
you need to stick something together.
Who knew that this was, that swing lineswere made in Long Island, New York.
Well, this has got all sorts of writing.
I'm gonna go on and doa little experiment.
I'm gonna find out.
You should, what would somethinglike this go for on eBay?
Listen, let's do a quick thing here.
I don't think it's gonna mess with therecording if I do this, but I'm gonna
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very quickly 'cause I'm on my computer.
I'm gonna bounce over first.
I'm gonna look up mine.
I'm gonna look up Bates.
Here we go.
Bates 88 p. And I don'teven have to put in stapler.
It just pops it up for me.
I'm gonna look at sold items here.
I'm gonna look at the highest, I justwanna see what's the highest one.
Yeah, so the highest pricedone that sold as an individual.
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It was only $13, but it was $6Shipping, probably only cost $4 to ship.
And it's useful.
Yours does a swing line.
Do you know what the model is?
Does it say?
Or size?
Oh, it's got all, it says94 dash oh two is on there.
There we go.
That's all I need.
94. Dash O2 and we're gonna, we'regonna see what this puppy, imagine
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there were a lot of this made 'causeit's large, but yeah, here's one
that's in like a burgundy color.
$35. Lemme find a metal, one like yours.
Silver one.
Yeah.
Here's one for $16.
Here's one's for $24.
And so some people might look at thatand say, I don't staple things anymore.
And besides it's the metal is or the paintjob on the top is kind of scraped off.
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Nobody wants that wrong.
There's somebody who's buying that today.
On eBay.
Alright, listen, whether you'relistening to part one or part two,
remember to follow, like, and subscribe.
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We really appreciate everybody.
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Hopefully you picked up something thatyou can make a little moolah from.
Moolah being cash cashola.
From this week, facts stack of cash.
Otherwise, we, that isall the time we have.
We'll be back with a brand newshow or part two depending on when
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