October 7, 2025 • 23 mins
In this episode of 'Garage Sales Unhinged,' hosts Julie and Jake explore the eccentric, bizarre, and downright hilarious items found at garage sales, yard sales, and estate sales. They discuss quirky finds like a 747 cockpit, a taxidermied frog in a rocking chair, and even conversations about fart jars. Adding to the fun, Julie and Jake share their thoughts on peculiar secondhand items, the thrill of these treasure hunts, and the weird joys of secondhand shopping. The episode closes with a call to listeners to share their strangest finds and invites them to connect via Instagram (@garagesalesunhinged) and email (garagesalesunhinged@gmail.com).
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Welcome to garage sales Unhinged.
Where the characters are as quirky as the vines.
I'm Julie. And I'm Jake.
Join us as we dive into the wildworld of garage sales, yard
sales, estate sales and anywheresecond hand sales are happening.
From bizarre bargains to hilarious haggles.
You won't believe the stories we've got lined up.
Let's get unhinged. When's the last time you've had
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a good fart? Oh man, you know they'll just
sneak up on you. It just happens.
Is that Are those sometimes the best ones?
Define good. You define good.
Satisfactory, I'd say. You know, it doesn't get you in
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trouble. It's declarative.
It makes a statement. But it doesn't stain anything.
Right, Yeah, it's a transitory statement.
It it makes a statement and it leaves, you know, that's the
ideal experience. It needs to be physical to the
point of feeling relieving, but prefer this like it's more of a
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like tactile reef tactile sensation, minimal olfactory, 0
visual. I'm bringing that up because,
like, have you ever seen like the fart in a jar?
What? A fart in a jar?
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Oh. No.
What do you what? You can buy farts and jars.
Is this some? This is a sex thing, isn't it?
I don't know it. Probably is.
Well, OK, so big fan of Bob's Burgers and I think one time
Jean, the son, Jean Belcher, he was going to capture a fart in a
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jar and was going to take show and tell or something.
One time. I could also be making this up,
but it also sounds like something Jean would do.
And I, I do know like some people will, it could be a kink
thing that they want to buy someone's fart in jar.
But it also made me go, have youever seen a fart in a jar at
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like a garage sale? Hopefully not an estate sale.
Don't keep that as a memento, myfolks.
But like, could that be a thing that you would see at a garage
sale? And if it's a thing, would you?
Depends if it if it's a celebrity estate sale.
(02:41):
Oh, OK, so now let's go off of celebrities.
So if it was the if it was in the Larry King Estate cell,
would you bet on it? Probably not Larry King, you
know, I mean, he was really madepopular by things coming out of
the other end of his body. What about Anthony Bourdain?
Because he ate so many differentthings.
Yeah, you're. Right.
I was like, think of what else passed through that area.
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Yeah, like this jar is informed by a vast culinary knowledge.
And how much would you spend forit if it was a name your own
price Fart in a jar from AnthonyBourte.
No, that's not even fair. I don't know.
I mean, we got to get into a barter situation.
I. Think yeah, like, did he just
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come back from Thailand? Or yeah, like right.
What? What were we working with here?
Yeah, well, I I bring up this weird question because there's
just some weird things that people try to sell second hand.
And I found a Reddit thread where people were sharing some
of the weirdest things that theyhave seen at garage sales, yard
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sales, swap meets, whatever you may want to call it.
This one made me cackle. I am.
So there's a list of them. I am going to skip over any of
them that are sex toys, anythingbecause they're out there.
They're weird but like. Yeah, it's it low effort.
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Yeah, right. So this one somebody posted
someone who was selling a cockpit for a 747.
Oh wow. The guy that was selling it was
a Pilot and he bought it to makea simulator at home and his wife
wasn't happy he bought it as he attached it to the back of his
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garage so he had to sell it. I could just kind of like the
cop picker of a 747 is not like a small thing.
And I also can't imagine what hespent for it.
But I just imagine coming home from like, running, like getting
groceries, and you're like, Roger, you did what?
Yeah. Also it makes me wonder like was
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he selling anything else or was that the only thing at the yard
itself? Sure picked up Jennifer from her
karate practice and this is whatyou did with your afternoon.
I asked you to do the dishes, but no, you had to go get a 747
cockpit and then decide that youwant to build it as a simulator.
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You're right, those things, I mean, they're not small.
Yeah, no. No, like it's like This is why
we can't have an in ground pool.Because Dad spent I.
Can't leave work at work. Dad spent my college fund on a
on a simulator. A homemade simulator.
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What's the thing? It won't.
I'm trying to figure out this guy's logic because like, surely
a, a flight simulator isn't something you just sit down and
plug into the wall and now it works.
There's a lot of things that happened.
So it wasn't going to work. It wasn't going to be a
simulator. He just wanted a memento.
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Also, I like, I feel like pilotshave to do continuing education.
And I think part of that is having time in a simulator, but
I also feel like it would have to be like an approved
simulator, not like, Oh yeah, I tried my hand at like the arcade
and I got in some hours. Like no Sir, you have to go to
an actual simulator. For what he's got back there,
it's just sitting in the yard. It's not going anywhere.
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It's not lighting up, it's not doing anything.
It's like, maybe it works if you're working for Spirit I
guess. Well, the next one that I'm
going to mention, Jake, I'm not going to lie, I really want to
buy this. I if if there was a link to it,
I would have already bought it and then I would have brought on
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the show like I've already bought it.
But it's awesome. A person posted this is from 11
years ago. I found a taxidermied frog
sitting in a tiny rocking chair.Jacob, what would I have done
with that? Yeah, you what?
What would I have done with that?
Oh, you would have given it to me.
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Yeah, Julia has a running gag where she gives me frogs for
presents. Yeah, and it's also like the
dumbest frog ever. Like, what am I going to?
And also, this was a real frog that someone taxidermied Jake.
And a little tiny rocking chair.It would have been awesome.
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Somebody else had posted that they bought a huge box of new
unopened 1990s era floppy disk for $3.
Sweet. And then sold it later on eBay
for $300. Oh yeah, I believe that.
Well, here's the thing. You can still buy new floppy
(07:37):
disk today off of Amazon. I think I saw one of our I was
doing my little bit of research.You can buy 10 floppy disk that
each one of them can hold 1.4 megabytes for $20.00 for 10 of
them. Yeah, it seems, it seems pretty
steep today, but hey, I learned the other day by watching old
(07:59):
episodes of John Oliver show that hey, that's that's how a
lot of air traffic control systems work.
Yeah, you and I saw the same. Episode.
Yeah. Oh my gosh, what if the FAA is
on eBay buying old floppy disk? There are honestly, there are
some really cool musical artistsout there and that's the medium
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they work on. They make music on on floppy
disk and like they make use of the.
Don't get me started on the floppies.
So another person posted and I don't know why you would have
this. Maybe it was, I don't know, for
their kids, like, you know how like kids have like the kitchen
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set up, like their little kitchen thing that they can,
yeah, play school things. Maybe they were going to do a
big box store type kids thing but it's a homemade Costco sign
I mean. I'd like to think that's in the
same backyard as the cockpit. Yeah, right.
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You know, it's just like, and this kid is there and he's got
the got the apron and everythingand he's handing out little
plastic hot dogs. Selling it for $1.50 souls kid.
Another one that again. Food could set up in an airport.
People will be going just to that airport just for that
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reason. You know what, I think that's
also why they don't have Chick-fil-A.
No, they do have a Chick-fil-A in an airport.
They're open on Sunday. I don't think they are.
Oh. Man, that's not cool.
Which also means that that location is missing out on
revenue to actually, because I've been on the side where
companies trying to get lease space, rent space in an airport
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for concessions, those spots andnot cheap, but also how much
money they rake in. Kind of worth it.
But hey, Chick-fil-A, they do whatever they want.
This is another thing that I sawon this list that I'm going
through that if I came across it, I would have bought it in a
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heartbeat, and then we would have played it at family game
night. It's the OJ Simpson trial board
game. Oh wow.
What? I didn't realize that was the
thing. Oh.
I wonder if it's like the game Clue.
Oh man. And all of your people are just
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OJOJ did it, but with what weapon?
I really I really wish that there was more to these of like
how did that board get what was like?
Was it a chutes and ladders or was it like a clue or is that
card game? Yeah, like instead of like
community Chest, it's just porso, Yeah.
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Another thing that somebody saw at a garage sale was the table
that Lady sit on going to a gynecologist appointment that
with the stirrups and everythingand they made a reference like
we go to like someone's house and be like, do you want to sit
in the dentist chair or the gynecologist chair?
Yeah, it's just no good choices here.
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But it's also like, if you had that in your house, you can't
not talk about it. Like why do you have this here?
That would be the best thing is to have something like that and
then just never acknowledge it. Yeah, yeah.
Like no. No, if you were the guest in
that home, you're like, I'm not mentioning it either because if
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I do, that's when I'm going to be murdered.
It's just best not to know, yeah.
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So I will say before I say what was for sale, it did not come
with ammo. So don't worry, there's no ammo
associated with this, but someone came across a fully
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operational bazooka. Oh, that's impressive.
I'll say that's impressive. But if it didn't have ammo, how
do they know it's operational? I know, was it just AT shirt
cannon? We just like we just shoved a
whole like honey glazed ham in this thing and it worked.
Ham fire Rocket. I would really like to shoot a
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honey glazed ham. Yeah, damaged with the Glenna
glazedale at velocity. Again, I think this is something
that I would do in my own house and I now I kind of want to try
to find this, but this person found a little trophy that said
Best Float 1969. So like if you think about that
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it could be a float and parade or like a boat parade type thing
is best float 1969 and that was engraved on it and they have it
sitting on top of their toilet for the last 10 years.
Also just kudos to the people that take it and then repurpose
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it for the right things. And you really got to respect
somebody that doesn't joke like that and puts it in an intimate
place where a lot of people, there's not a big audience.
Yeah, not a big audience. This is pretty pretty bespoke
humor and we love you for this. OK, so this one, this is an
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interesting find. It's not necessarily crazy.
It's not. I don't think it's hilarious or
anything, but someone found sealed the luggage that only had
Sega handwritten on it. It was for $10.00.
So they bought it because it waslike it was the mystery.
It's the mystery box. What's in the box and and
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whenever they opened it, it contained 2 complete master
systems, both in working order of Sega systems.
So like the consoles? Yeah, wow, Yeah.
That's cool. Yeah.
And also I'm like, I'm especially if someone was
cleaning out a family member's house or if it was an estate
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cell, they couldn't open it. They're like probably has socks
in it or something. Yeah, Goldmine.
That's the kind of thing of likewe go to these things because
we're searching for the treasureand then our, you know, our
creativity, our minds run away with the gun.
Maybe there is treasure in here.And then this example there was.
That's part of The thing is likeyou, you go to a retail store,
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you know what to expect. The fascinating thing about the
second hand deal, you walk into any garage sale.
It's kind of the endless optimism.
Now, granted, that's kind of usually paired with
disappointment, but it's the approach, it's that endless
optimism of possibility. What am I going to find?
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What might there be? And if a situation like that,
like there's something in this box, I don't know what it is, 4
bucks, kind of like, wow, what do I do?
And that's really fun. Yeah, I will say it like as I
was going through trying to findlike what are some wacky and
crazy things that people have found second hand shopping.
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And I'm not really proud to say that this has come up more often
that I like, but a lot of peoplesay that there's urns for sale,
clearly have something in them. And every post I've seen said I
didn't want to open it to see what it was, so they just left
it there. But I, I just want to do a call
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to arms for people that maybe you haven't earned that you
would like to sell. Do not sell grandma or grandpa
or family member like that's a no no.
Don't do that. Yeah, I mean like empty it first
is what you're saying. You know, do something with the
remains. Don't just hand it off to the
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next person. Just don't do that.
Yeah. OK.
The last one that's on this listand I it's it's just chef's
kiss. Beautiful.
This person found a painting. They spent $20 on it.
The painting is of two men riding through the Old West on
horses with revolvers being chased by a somewhat distinct
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group of lawmen or bandits in the background.
And the best part of this painting?
The two men are Tupac and Bob Marley.
Nice. I have come across, I think one
time Jacob, I sent you a pictureof this thing.
It definitely looks like somebody made it, but it had
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like a picture of Elvis and thislike wooden frame type thing.
And then there's three like small mirrors next to Elvis.
And you were like, well, what are those mirrors?
Is it just like a seat? And like, no, they're, you
didn't ask what they were. You're like, what are those
three dots? Sounds like they're mirrors like
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and it, it was for sell at Goodwill.
They wanted $40.00 for it. And I looked at it and like.
That's really high for goodwill.Well, it also gave me the heavy
jeebies. Like, no, I don't want that.
But yeah, they all like this whole list.
It kind of made me laugh and go,OK, that's kind of funny.
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So have you come across things at thrift stores, garage sales,
estate sales that you're like did a double take?
Oh, for sure. There was like an estate sale
around here went to and there was like an empty glass case.
It was empty and the label inside it like a a label that
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was on a string and it seemed like this it had been pulled off
of something, but the label was still in there invisible.
It was like haunted doll do not open.
Oh no. That was good.
Goodwill had one of those. Oh, like I think the term for it
is like a, a convex glass painting.
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It's like a older style. You seen them?
They're like kind of a Oval shaped piece of glass and it's
curved and there it, there's a painting inside of it and you
know, like it kind of has an effect that kind of bends around
as you move around it. And it was of a horse jockey in
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pink, you know, and in the horsejockey uniform.
And it was like different shadesof pink.
You can kind of see a track or something behind him, but the
face was like an afterthought. The Facebook just like something
that they did, you know, separate from it.
It seemed like it was like top cut and pasted onto it.
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But I was really tempted to get it because because of that,
because it was just like so off putting how out of place the
face was. Like, that's kind of awesome
actually. I really think you and I,
without telling the rest of the family we should buy Christmas
gifts this year. Only second hand and only the
weird stuff. Honestly, yes.
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Nothing that anyone can use is just weird.
I'm I'm down for this, absolutely.
You know, I can't. I wouldn't say like anything
I've come across recently has been like so outlandish or
crazy. There's always things like.
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Clothing, then I'm kind of like,who would wear that?
But it's just not my style. But yeah, coming across this
list of random things, granted the the item I saw at Goodwill,
the Elvis folksy folk art thing,I'm like, and if it was probably
$4.00, Jacob, you would have hadthat in your living room by now,
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$40, not so much. Hey, I'm shocked at that price,
man. Like, what are you?
What are you doing? Goodwill, what are you doing?
It's a hoity, toity, goodwill. I think there was a chain of
stores. It was one of these in the mid
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twenty 10s economic conditions were such that you had these
overstock stores, a lot of retailers that had wacky stuff
going on. And so they had all this crazy
surplus and it cost less for them to just eat the loss and
give it to these surplus stores.Then it would be for them to pay
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for the warehousing to. So you have places like dirt
cheap. There's a small chain operated
in just a few states. And I was fortunate to be able
to go to 1. And once I went, it's like, I'm
just going here now. At the time the quality was was
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good because it was just like Target just has too much stuff.
Yeah. So this target thing that would
have been 30 bucks is now like $1.70.
Nice. It was crazy, but I'd go in
there and like there'd be a gigantic box filled with mop
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heads. OK.
Just mop heads. And that's kind of the reality
of Overstock is that you never know.
And it might, it might be like the most wicked awesome thing
you ever saw. Like this is actually useful and
actually good. And it's $3 I'm loading up.
Or it'd be stuff like that. Like I, I guess I need a mop
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head. I don't know that I need 600.
Well, you know what I do need and I want to call.
I want to put a call out to our listeners.
If you can find me a taxidermiedfrog sitting in a rocking chair,
you call me, because that's going to be Jacob's gift.
What? You know what?
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I'll take you up on that challenge.
Why don't you go ahead and give everybody your phone number?
Yep, it is. I can give them your number, I
know it off the top of my head. That's OK.
That's all right. But also if, if any of our
listeners, if you come across something wild and crazy, let us
know what it is. You can hit us up on Instagram
at Garage Sales Unhinged, or youcan actually e-mail us at
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garagesalesunhinged@gmail.com. E-mail us.
You never e-mail us anymore. We love you.
We worried about you. Jacob is.
I'm not. I could care.
No, I'm kidding. We love our listeners.
You, you. You are our our boyfriends and
girlfriends. We think of you when we're by
ourselves. And on deck, no thanks for
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joining us this week, folks. Jake, this was fun.
Talk to you later. See you later.
Bye bye.
Welcome to garage sales Unhinged.
Where the characters are as quirky as the vines.
I'm Julie. And I'm Jake.
Join us as we dive into the wildworld of garage sales, yard
sales, estate sales and anywheresecond hand sales are happening.
From bizarre bargains to hilarious haggles.
You won't believe the stories we've got lined up.
Let's get unhinged. When's the last time you've had
(00:25):
a good fart? Oh man, you know they'll just
sneak up on you. It just happens.
Is that Are those sometimes the best ones?
Define good. You define good.
Satisfactory, I'd say. You know, it doesn't get you in
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trouble. It's declarative.
It makes a statement. But it doesn't stain anything.
Right, Yeah, it's a transitory statement.
It it makes a statement and it leaves, you know, that's the
ideal experience. It needs to be physical to the
point of feeling relieving, but prefer this like it's more of a
(01:12):
like tactile reef tactile sensation, minimal olfactory, 0
visual. I'm bringing that up because,
like, have you ever seen like the fart in a jar?
What? A fart in a jar?
(01:34):
Oh. No.
What do you what? You can buy farts and jars.
Is this some? This is a sex thing, isn't it?
I don't know it. Probably is.
Well, OK, so big fan of Bob's Burgers and I think one time
Jean, the son, Jean Belcher, he was going to capture a fart in a
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jar and was going to take show and tell or something.
One time. I could also be making this up,
but it also sounds like something Jean would do.
And I, I do know like some people will, it could be a kink
thing that they want to buy someone's fart in jar.
But it also made me go, have youever seen a fart in a jar at
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like a garage sale? Hopefully not an estate sale.
Don't keep that as a memento, myfolks.
But like, could that be a thing that you would see at a garage
sale? And if it's a thing, would you?
Depends if it if it's a celebrity estate sale.
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Oh, OK, so now let's go off of celebrities.
So if it was the if it was in the Larry King Estate cell,
would you bet on it? Probably not Larry King, you
know, I mean, he was really madepopular by things coming out of
the other end of his body. What about Anthony Bourdain?
Because he ate so many differentthings.
Yeah, you're. Right.
I was like, think of what else passed through that area.
(03:03):
Yeah, like this jar is informed by a vast culinary knowledge.
And how much would you spend forit if it was a name your own
price Fart in a jar from AnthonyBourte.
No, that's not even fair. I don't know.
I mean, we got to get into a barter situation.
I. Think yeah, like, did he just
(03:25):
come back from Thailand? Or yeah, like right.
What? What were we working with here?
Yeah, well, I I bring up this weird question because there's
just some weird things that people try to sell second hand.
And I found a Reddit thread where people were sharing some
of the weirdest things that theyhave seen at garage sales, yard
(03:48):
sales, swap meets, whatever you may want to call it.
This one made me cackle. I am.
So there's a list of them. I am going to skip over any of
them that are sex toys, anythingbecause they're out there.
They're weird but like. Yeah, it's it low effort.
(04:08):
Yeah, right. So this one somebody posted
someone who was selling a cockpit for a 747.
Oh wow. The guy that was selling it was
a Pilot and he bought it to makea simulator at home and his wife
wasn't happy he bought it as he attached it to the back of his
(04:28):
garage so he had to sell it. I could just kind of like the
cop picker of a 747 is not like a small thing.
And I also can't imagine what hespent for it.
But I just imagine coming home from like, running, like getting
groceries, and you're like, Roger, you did what?
Yeah. Also it makes me wonder like was
(04:50):
he selling anything else or was that the only thing at the yard
itself? Sure picked up Jennifer from her
karate practice and this is whatyou did with your afternoon.
I asked you to do the dishes, but no, you had to go get a 747
cockpit and then decide that youwant to build it as a simulator.
(05:10):
You're right, those things, I mean, they're not small.
Yeah, no. No, like it's like This is why
we can't have an in ground pool.Because Dad spent I.
Can't leave work at work. Dad spent my college fund on a
on a simulator. A homemade simulator.
(05:31):
What's the thing? It won't.
I'm trying to figure out this guy's logic because like, surely
a, a flight simulator isn't something you just sit down and
plug into the wall and now it works.
There's a lot of things that happened.
So it wasn't going to work. It wasn't going to be a
simulator. He just wanted a memento.
(05:52):
Also, I like, I feel like pilotshave to do continuing education.
And I think part of that is having time in a simulator, but
I also feel like it would have to be like an approved
simulator, not like, Oh yeah, I tried my hand at like the arcade
and I got in some hours. Like no Sir, you have to go to
an actual simulator. For what he's got back there,
it's just sitting in the yard. It's not going anywhere.
(06:12):
It's not lighting up, it's not doing anything.
It's like, maybe it works if you're working for Spirit I
guess. Well, the next one that I'm
going to mention, Jake, I'm not going to lie, I really want to
buy this. I if if there was a link to it,
I would have already bought it and then I would have brought on
(06:32):
the show like I've already bought it.
But it's awesome. A person posted this is from 11
years ago. I found a taxidermied frog
sitting in a tiny rocking chair.Jacob, what would I have done
with that? Yeah, you what?
What would I have done with that?
Oh, you would have given it to me.
(06:53):
Yeah, Julia has a running gag where she gives me frogs for
presents. Yeah, and it's also like the
dumbest frog ever. Like, what am I going to?
And also, this was a real frog that someone taxidermied Jake.
And a little tiny rocking chair.It would have been awesome.
(07:14):
Somebody else had posted that they bought a huge box of new
unopened 1990s era floppy disk for $3.
Sweet. And then sold it later on eBay
for $300. Oh yeah, I believe that.
Well, here's the thing. You can still buy new floppy
(07:37):
disk today off of Amazon. I think I saw one of our I was
doing my little bit of research.You can buy 10 floppy disk that
each one of them can hold 1.4 megabytes for $20.00 for 10 of
them. Yeah, it seems, it seems pretty
steep today, but hey, I learned the other day by watching old
(07:59):
episodes of John Oliver show that hey, that's that's how a
lot of air traffic control systems work.
Yeah, you and I saw the same. Episode.
Yeah. Oh my gosh, what if the FAA is
on eBay buying old floppy disk? There are honestly, there are
some really cool musical artistsout there and that's the medium
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they work on. They make music on on floppy
disk and like they make use of the.
Don't get me started on the floppies.
So another person posted and I don't know why you would have
this. Maybe it was, I don't know, for
their kids, like, you know how like kids have like the kitchen
(08:44):
set up, like their little kitchen thing that they can,
yeah, play school things. Maybe they were going to do a
big box store type kids thing but it's a homemade Costco sign
I mean. I'd like to think that's in the
same backyard as the cockpit. Yeah, right.
(09:06):
You know, it's just like, and this kid is there and he's got
the got the apron and everythingand he's handing out little
plastic hot dogs. Selling it for $1.50 souls kid.
Another one that again. Food could set up in an airport.
People will be going just to that airport just for that
(09:27):
reason. You know what, I think that's
also why they don't have Chick-fil-A.
No, they do have a Chick-fil-A in an airport.
They're open on Sunday. I don't think they are.
Oh. Man, that's not cool.
Which also means that that location is missing out on
revenue to actually, because I've been on the side where
companies trying to get lease space, rent space in an airport
(09:50):
for concessions, those spots andnot cheap, but also how much
money they rake in. Kind of worth it.
But hey, Chick-fil-A, they do whatever they want.
This is another thing that I sawon this list that I'm going
through that if I came across it, I would have bought it in a
(10:13):
heartbeat, and then we would have played it at family game
night. It's the OJ Simpson trial board
game. Oh wow.
What? I didn't realize that was the
thing. Oh.
I wonder if it's like the game Clue.
Oh man. And all of your people are just
(10:34):
OJOJ did it, but with what weapon?
I really I really wish that there was more to these of like
how did that board get what was like?
Was it a chutes and ladders or was it like a clue or is that
card game? Yeah, like instead of like
community Chest, it's just porso, Yeah.
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Another thing that somebody saw at a garage sale was the table
that Lady sit on going to a gynecologist appointment that
with the stirrups and everythingand they made a reference like
we go to like someone's house and be like, do you want to sit
in the dentist chair or the gynecologist chair?
Yeah, it's just no good choices here.
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But it's also like, if you had that in your house, you can't
not talk about it. Like why do you have this here?
That would be the best thing is to have something like that and
then just never acknowledge it. Yeah, yeah.
Like no. No, if you were the guest in
that home, you're like, I'm not mentioning it either because if
(11:40):
I do, that's when I'm going to be murdered.
It's just best not to know, yeah.
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So I will say before I say what was for sale, it did not come
with ammo. So don't worry, there's no ammo
associated with this, but someone came across a fully
(12:24):
operational bazooka. Oh, that's impressive.
I'll say that's impressive. But if it didn't have ammo, how
do they know it's operational? I know, was it just AT shirt
cannon? We just like we just shoved a
whole like honey glazed ham in this thing and it worked.
Ham fire Rocket. I would really like to shoot a
(12:46):
honey glazed ham. Yeah, damaged with the Glenna
glazedale at velocity. Again, I think this is something
that I would do in my own house and I now I kind of want to try
to find this, but this person found a little trophy that said
Best Float 1969. So like if you think about that
(13:08):
it could be a float and parade or like a boat parade type thing
is best float 1969 and that was engraved on it and they have it
sitting on top of their toilet for the last 10 years.
Also just kudos to the people that take it and then repurpose
(13:29):
it for the right things. And you really got to respect
somebody that doesn't joke like that and puts it in an intimate
place where a lot of people, there's not a big audience.
Yeah, not a big audience. This is pretty pretty bespoke
humor and we love you for this. OK, so this one, this is an
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interesting find. It's not necessarily crazy.
It's not. I don't think it's hilarious or
anything, but someone found sealed the luggage that only had
Sega handwritten on it. It was for $10.00.
So they bought it because it waslike it was the mystery.
It's the mystery box. What's in the box and and
(14:13):
whenever they opened it, it contained 2 complete master
systems, both in working order of Sega systems.
So like the consoles? Yeah, wow, Yeah.
That's cool. Yeah.
And also I'm like, I'm especially if someone was
cleaning out a family member's house or if it was an estate
(14:34):
cell, they couldn't open it. They're like probably has socks
in it or something. Yeah, Goldmine.
That's the kind of thing of likewe go to these things because
we're searching for the treasureand then our, you know, our
creativity, our minds run away with the gun.
Maybe there is treasure in here.And then this example there was.
That's part of The thing is likeyou, you go to a retail store,
(14:57):
you know what to expect. The fascinating thing about the
second hand deal, you walk into any garage sale.
It's kind of the endless optimism.
Now, granted, that's kind of usually paired with
disappointment, but it's the approach, it's that endless
optimism of possibility. What am I going to find?
(15:18):
What might there be? And if a situation like that,
like there's something in this box, I don't know what it is, 4
bucks, kind of like, wow, what do I do?
And that's really fun. Yeah, I will say it like as I
was going through trying to findlike what are some wacky and
crazy things that people have found second hand shopping.
(15:41):
And I'm not really proud to say that this has come up more often
that I like, but a lot of peoplesay that there's urns for sale,
clearly have something in them. And every post I've seen said I
didn't want to open it to see what it was, so they just left
it there. But I, I just want to do a call
(16:02):
to arms for people that maybe you haven't earned that you
would like to sell. Do not sell grandma or grandpa
or family member like that's a no no.
Don't do that. Yeah, I mean like empty it first
is what you're saying. You know, do something with the
remains. Don't just hand it off to the
(16:23):
next person. Just don't do that.
Yeah. OK.
The last one that's on this listand I it's it's just chef's
kiss. Beautiful.
This person found a painting. They spent $20 on it.
The painting is of two men riding through the Old West on
horses with revolvers being chased by a somewhat distinct
(16:47):
group of lawmen or bandits in the background.
And the best part of this painting?
The two men are Tupac and Bob Marley.
Nice. I have come across, I think one
time Jacob, I sent you a pictureof this thing.
It definitely looks like somebody made it, but it had
(17:09):
like a picture of Elvis and thislike wooden frame type thing.
And then there's three like small mirrors next to Elvis.
And you were like, well, what are those mirrors?
Is it just like a seat? And like, no, they're, you
didn't ask what they were. You're like, what are those
three dots? Sounds like they're mirrors like
(17:29):
and it, it was for sell at Goodwill.
They wanted $40.00 for it. And I looked at it and like.
That's really high for goodwill.Well, it also gave me the heavy
jeebies. Like, no, I don't want that.
But yeah, they all like this whole list.
It kind of made me laugh and go,OK, that's kind of funny.
(17:52):
So have you come across things at thrift stores, garage sales,
estate sales that you're like did a double take?
Oh, for sure. There was like an estate sale
around here went to and there was like an empty glass case.
It was empty and the label inside it like a a label that
(18:16):
was on a string and it seemed like this it had been pulled off
of something, but the label was still in there invisible.
It was like haunted doll do not open.
Oh no. That was good.
Goodwill had one of those. Oh, like I think the term for it
is like a, a convex glass painting.
(18:37):
It's like a older style. You seen them?
They're like kind of a Oval shaped piece of glass and it's
curved and there it, there's a painting inside of it and you
know, like it kind of has an effect that kind of bends around
as you move around it. And it was of a horse jockey in
(19:00):
pink, you know, and in the horsejockey uniform.
And it was like different shadesof pink.
You can kind of see a track or something behind him, but the
face was like an afterthought. The Facebook just like something
that they did, you know, separate from it.
It seemed like it was like top cut and pasted onto it.
(19:21):
But I was really tempted to get it because because of that,
because it was just like so off putting how out of place the
face was. Like, that's kind of awesome
actually. I really think you and I,
without telling the rest of the family we should buy Christmas
gifts this year. Only second hand and only the
weird stuff. Honestly, yes.
(19:42):
Nothing that anyone can use is just weird.
I'm I'm down for this, absolutely.
You know, I can't. I wouldn't say like anything
I've come across recently has been like so outlandish or
crazy. There's always things like.
(20:02):
Clothing, then I'm kind of like,who would wear that?
But it's just not my style. But yeah, coming across this
list of random things, granted the the item I saw at Goodwill,
the Elvis folksy folk art thing,I'm like, and if it was probably
$4.00, Jacob, you would have hadthat in your living room by now,
(20:23):
$40, not so much. Hey, I'm shocked at that price,
man. Like, what are you?
What are you doing? Goodwill, what are you doing?
It's a hoity, toity, goodwill. I think there was a chain of
stores. It was one of these in the mid
(20:44):
twenty 10s economic conditions were such that you had these
overstock stores, a lot of retailers that had wacky stuff
going on. And so they had all this crazy
surplus and it cost less for them to just eat the loss and
give it to these surplus stores.Then it would be for them to pay
(21:07):
for the warehousing to. So you have places like dirt
cheap. There's a small chain operated
in just a few states. And I was fortunate to be able
to go to 1. And once I went, it's like, I'm
just going here now. At the time the quality was was
(21:27):
good because it was just like Target just has too much stuff.
Yeah. So this target thing that would
have been 30 bucks is now like $1.70.
Nice. It was crazy, but I'd go in
there and like there'd be a gigantic box filled with mop
(21:48):
heads. OK.
Just mop heads. And that's kind of the reality
of Overstock is that you never know.
And it might, it might be like the most wicked awesome thing
you ever saw. Like this is actually useful and
actually good. And it's $3 I'm loading up.
Or it'd be stuff like that. Like I, I guess I need a mop
(22:11):
head. I don't know that I need 600.
Well, you know what I do need and I want to call.
I want to put a call out to our listeners.
If you can find me a taxidermiedfrog sitting in a rocking chair,
you call me, because that's going to be Jacob's gift.
What? You know what?
(22:32):
I'll take you up on that challenge.
Why don't you go ahead and give everybody your phone number?
Yep, it is. I can give them your number, I
know it off the top of my head. That's OK.
That's all right. But also if, if any of our
listeners, if you come across something wild and crazy, let us
know what it is. You can hit us up on Instagram
at Garage Sales Unhinged, or youcan actually e-mail us at
(22:56):
garagesalesunhinged@gmail.com. E-mail us.
You never e-mail us anymore. We love you.
We worried about you. Jacob is.
I'm not. I could care.
No, I'm kidding. We love our listeners.
You, you. You are our our boyfriends and
girlfriends. We think of you when we're by
ourselves. And on deck, no thanks for
(23:19):
joining us this week, folks. Jake, this was fun.
Talk to you later. See you later.
Bye bye.
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