January 27, 2025 • 16 mins
Jodi found some OLD personal items at a recent estate sale.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Murphy Salmon Joni after the show podcast A
very thrifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, in a state sale if that's not the same
thing as thrifting, Really, he's going to an estate sale
is not considered thrifting, is it?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I would say it is potentially became genre because in
a state sale, depending on the price, So I guess
the difference would be you can actually haggle.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If I heard some of that going on, I do
not do that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And what's going to happen to the stuff left over
after the estate sale?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I assume donation through a thrift shop.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh okay, fine, there's the connection. Good for you now,
you would have loved this. In fact, when Phoebe and
I were leaving, I do want to tell you. I
will get to the reason we're bringing it back up
is the one thing that.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Phoebe is going to go back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
She's waiting for the last day because she wants this
thing that was hanging on the wall for sixty percent off.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And I'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But when Phoebe and I were leaving this estate sale
in our neighborhood the other day, Murphy, you would have
been so interested in what was happening at the checkout.
Oh really, the living room of this home and they've
set up their table and there's some there's a young
man standing there and he was explaining to them, like,
you're not going to get four hundred dollars for this,
(01:11):
and it's some sort of photographic or dark room equipment,
and he said, I, you know, I run a dark room.
I live about an hour away, and this is what
you'll get for it. And I'm offering you this. He's like,
I'll give you one hundred and fifty for it right now,
he says, but you're not going to get four hundred
for it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't even know what it was, but it was
just so interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I thought Murphy would be pretending to look at stuff
just to listen to that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Did they take the one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No idea, because I left because I don't care.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
The thing. The thing about that is you have to
be prepared to pay cash if you're going to do
that right, because if you negotiate a price down with
the card, they're still paying a fee, you know, to process,
so they will not negotiate with you on that. But
have you got the cash for it? You can well
I haven't done that in a while, and you just
have to you have to be polite with it. You're
not being pushy or anything. And I'm sure this guy
was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, it was nice. He was self spoken.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But it's funny that you say what happened now that
I'm putting myself in that spot when I'm when Phoebe
and I were leaving.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I did hear her say back to Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh oh that she would be in that area next
week and if it didn't sell, she would call him
something like that, So that is good.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, and you said they were using in a state
sale company, right, so yes, this was a family Yeah,
so they take a percentage of it, you know, which
is and it's a smart thing. I mean, I can
tell you you know when of course, when I lost
both of my parents, when my father passed, that's where
we had to clean out his house and we didn't
wind up going that route. There really wasn't enough stuff
(02:42):
to sell. I guess somebody could have. But it's a
lot easier too, because when you're talking about in estates se,
you're talking about so much stuff that it's just easier
to have somebody do it. And you know, take a
percentage and what normally happens. But you've taken the things
that you don't want. You know that that are family
heirlooms or whatever that you want to keep.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Whenever you walk into it. I used to at the
when I first started going to them. It made me
feel really weird. And there were certain parts of the
home I wouldn't go in. I would never go into
a woman's closet or like you know. And now it's
the first place I cap really Phoebe knows. And Phoebe
could not wait to get into the closet. We didn't
know what to expect. You can walk into one and
go that's not me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm out. Well, she was.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Telling me, Mom, get in here. There's a bunch of
stuff in this closet.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We have to see.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You sent me a picture of something that I do
hope goes at sixty percent off, okay, because I would
have had the same conversation with them that the guy
with the photography stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Was it the Bow's thing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, Jenny sends me a picture.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Of all the equipment I noticed end to him.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah it's a Bow's three stacker CD whatever, a speaker
changer thing, and they're trying to sell it for two
hundred bucks and that's way overpriced. Yeah, I mean really,
if you ever want to price comparison shop and you're
at an estate sale, you know what the best way
to do it is, I gues. You don't go to them, no,
not Google. You go to eBay and see what it's
(04:03):
being resold for on eBay, because that's actually what if
somebody is not going necessarily the estate's you know, company route.
A lot of times that's what will happen. Somebody will
show up at the end of an estate sale and
say I will buy all this from you for this price,
and then they swort and then they resell it on eBay.
Sometimes you get it for free at the end, you
know what I mean. But yeah, so it's a it's
(04:27):
really good because you've got a marketplace and sort of
a market value that you can work off of. To know,
I didn't do that with this one. I just know
from you know, being the electronics freak that I am,
because it involves CDs. Yes, it's got the boat neighbor right,
it's not going to it's not going to sell for that,
so you know, well, I'll go walk down the street
(04:47):
Tuesday when everything's sixty percent off, and.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, if this was a Saturday through Tuesday thing, and
Phoebe is planning to go back Tuesday because there were
these In some strange part of the house.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
There were these.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't know what you call these things, these little
doll faces with crochet dresses hanging like it's like a
doll face with crochet around the face and the bottom
looks like a little skirt and it's crocheted. Somebody made
it and it's hanging on the wall.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I think that was part of a craft kit or
something correct.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And Phoebe has always been that person like she wants
one of those.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And she was like, I'm not paying ten dollars for that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Though it's not a spooky thing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think it's spooky looking, but she doesn't. She will
if she goes back and gets one of those, she
will name it. I know this child, she will name it.
She'll have an interesting name, and she'll hang it in
her apartment or she'll have it in her car.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
She's just like that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I even told her, I said, do not buy
something like that and drop it in my house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the reason I didn't want to go to the
estates soul. I said, Phoebe, I have enough stuff. Look
around you.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I have a home full of stuff that I'm constantly
trying to reorganize home at it, I'm donating stuff all
the time.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't need to go.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And then she was like, but what if there are
nice clothes jewelry there. I'm like, okay, fine, I'm there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, And sure enough, I bought a pair of earrings.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm wearing a little pair of costume like studs that
were just so pretty. They're a pink stone, you know,
they're costume jewelry. So it'll last me a couple of
years until it looks kind of walking and then I'll
get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But I paid five dollars for them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think it these days, it would have to be
something that really speaks to me. Because of the same time,
I didn't want to bring any more stuff in. I've
gone through my vinyl recollection phase. I'm done with that
because it still takes up a lot of space, you know.
I mean it's when we went when CDs came out.
I got rid of my original vinyl collection as a kid,
and then lo and behold. Then I start bringing, you know,
(06:39):
buying it back.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So the things that I found I've wanted because they're
you know, they're either original pressings or something like that.
But I've stopped. Yeah, I've stopped doing that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I we'll tell you it's too easy to collect.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It was fun the crowd and there was fun, like,
So I want to take you to the lady's closet
really quick, and then I'll tell you one other piece
of electronic weird thing that I did not send you
a picture of yet, but I will. I have a
picture of it. So in the ladies closet, Phoebe was
just blown away. Wanted me to see. She's not interested
in it, neither am I. But this woman had a
lot of fur coats oh maybe you know, maybe not
(07:13):
the most expensive in the world, but just a lot
of different like and real animal like.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, it five or six of them. Boom boom boom,
boom boom.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So it was a thing for her. There were also
a ton of scarves, and Phoebe bought a scarf. I
bought it for her for two dollars and it's so
cute and beautiful and we were looking up videos of
how to style it because she wants to sort of
style it. And it's like it's a thin, little one.
It's not like a big winter one. It's a pretty, pretty, little,
just accent scarf.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But in the in her closet, I think I mentioned
in the show today that I found gloves, formal gloves,
long white formal gloves with like pearl looking buttons, and
I showed Phoebe. I said, look, I'm just showing you this.
I don't want them neat on them. I said, but
look at this. You don't see this every day, and
you would probably have to order this online because even
(08:02):
formal shops might not have this. And she, you know,
she's an old soul. She was like, man, I wish
that would come back. I'm like, well, you could do it.
Next time you dress up, you can do it. It
is classic, but you don't see that. And right underneath
those gloves, I saw something and I had to. I
called her back. I said, Phoebes, come here, and I
picked them up and they were in perfect condition, more
(08:22):
than one pair of legwarmers. Oh from an a lady girl.
I was like, foeb'es, I know you don't know what
this is, but you would just put these on over
your pants.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Were they were they in a pouch with Jane Vonda's
face on it. No, not those kind of leg warmers.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And they were that kind of letting nineteen eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yes, rainbow color or no.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That one was blue and then another one was cream colored,
and they just looked And even this this young girl
who was kind of shopping along with us, we didn't
even know her name. I had shown Phoebe a really
pretty pink sweater. I said, this is a cardigan sweater.
You can do a million things with this. It looks
like you. And Phoebe's like, it does look like me,
but I wouldn't wear it. And that girl grabbed it
and she'd be like, I'm going to take it. But
(09:02):
and she was looking at the lag warmers too, and
it's like and she you could tell she thought about it.
It's wintertime, you know. There they were like a dollar
or two dollars and they were in perfect condition. But
it's just not something now. It probably will come back
one day.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I can see how the fashion stuff would be the
big takeaway, like the jewelry and the clothes and that
sort of thing for you, you know, for you.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, And I did buy a belt. It's pink. What
a pink belt? And it fit me?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What what I'm really interested in? And I've not really
gone crazy down the path, and I won't go crazy
down the path. Jody knows this already, and uh it's
I am really keeping my eye out for mid century
modern lamps and things like that. I produced her faith
knows that I love that kind of stuff too. And
there's a bunch of stuff that I I have favored it,
(09:52):
favorited it, you know, on on eBay, but some of
them are just selling for ridiculously insane prices. I have two.
One is actually my grandmother's and I had the matching set,
but I broke one of them by accident unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well it was a big it's big, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Huge with the big tall, you know lamp shade, and
it was ceramic and they call that it's not a
lava lamp, but it's a volcanic kind of a lava look.
That was, you know, the style in the sixties. And
then I found a smaller, you know one that is
just that white round one and I was going to
go get a crazy tall top four, but that didn't work,
so I got the and I forget the right. Yeah,
(10:29):
I see, I just don't know the names of the
styles of them. There's Danish style, there's I think that's
you know this. I love all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't know the lamp.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
My point is if if we go to in a
state sale, and I guess it's probably tougher to find
that stuff because if it's from the.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Sixties, well this would be the one to go see.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Some of those people aren't alive anymore, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I remember the lamps, Murphy. But I want to tell
you one other thing that took a quick picture of.
I told you there was a water pick in that
bathroom that was very old but clean, but very old.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It was also this do you see that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh it's an old answer answering machine, the phone with
an answering machine.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the box is there to phone mate
forty six fifty answering machine with speaker phone?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No forty six bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, I guess you start high, you know, yeah,
because the first day everything's full price. The second day
it's like, is it twenty five? I don't know how
I don't remember the breakdown that's written on the door
on a place card and Phoebe takes a picture of it.
She knows she's already done the math on those crazy
doll things with the crochet skirts that she might go
(11:38):
back and try to get.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, when you start trying to explain something like
an answer you know, a phone answering system, you know,
for one thing, you start to hear yourself explaining that
it's like what, Yeah, so you see what used to happen? Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And what used to happen is we used to get
creative with them too.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Can you record it and record it and record.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And then every now and then the tape would get full, Yes,
I said tape, and you'd have to change the cassette
out and yeah, I know. And that was what's so funny,
is I remember my grandmother was the first to give
my parents that that was That was like the family gift.
My aunts and uncles each got one, and my parents
got the quote unquote answer phone. That's the that was
the term for it.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, And it was.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This massive box with these click knobs on it, and
it didn't even have a phone attached to it. You
just plugged it through the system and you couldn't change
tapes out either. It's just it was this massive boat
anchor of a piece of equipment. And I think again
trying to explain that to somebody, I wouldn't pay forty
five bucks for that. I don't think i'd pay four
bucks forever.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
They don't need it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's gonna it's gonna become it's gonna end up in
your own your estate sales.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And you know, I mean that's the kind of thing
that it's a great prop if needed for all, you know,
donate that to a little theater or something like that,
you know, right.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, little theaters, community theater, right, correct. Anyway, I just
thought I would share that because it was just so fun.
I mean I almost didn't even tell her about it,
and then we wouldn't have all these little stories to
tell you. I wouldn't have, yeah, because I saw it
and she didn't. She was just hanging out at the
house with our cousin James and Taylor. But I knew
as soon as I told her it was going to
(13:15):
be a deal. In fact, the next day, yesterday, she
took James back. They went back together. They were looking
for some sort of army bag that was there. She
knew that he liked army stuff, but it was gone.
Somebody had purchased it on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You get to feel in those scary looking baby face
things are going to be there Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I do. I cannot imagine another soul.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
On this planet who really wants those. But you never know,
You really never know. If you ever have a chance
to just stop into one, it's hit or miss. And
even if you don't buy a thing, it's just it's
worth chatting.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Look, I haven't done it in a while. I just
loved that because you know there are stories there. You
can literally see somebody's life story explain by the things
that they've owned.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I could see where this woman had traveled. You could
see all the books that she had, and then some
of the jewelry. The costume jewelry that I bought was
just out and you could grab it and they would
put in a bag for you with your name on it.
But there was other there's a lot of other jewelry
under glass that you had. They her real jewelry, and
they had it priced way up as if new to you.
(14:23):
So I mean, that would be interesting to see on
Tuesday if they've taken that out of the equation and
they're going to sell that, or they're actually offering that
at sixty percent off.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That would be interesting to me to know.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I need to go back and see. Jody also sent
me a picture of a reel to reel machine.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So sorry, yeah, I forgot to show you, but.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It was the consumer version of that. There was a
professional yeah, right, but there were consumer reel to real machines.
My dad didn't have one of those, but I had
an uncle that did for whatever reason. I mean, I
don't know what you would do with them. I don't
know where you bought the tape.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
To do that, but they would buy the album on tape.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think maybe what they were doing it was sort
of like an audio file kind of thing where they'd
take their own songs and record them onto them and
they have one big tape that they can play at
parties or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I mean, like the iPhone playlist.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, which is a whole lot easier to use.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm curious to one question about the person that lived there.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, that's what I wanted to know. They don't like
post a little.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, they do not.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
It was a person and no they do not.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's all business. In fact, I've never really walked into one.
One time we walked into one where it was like,
oh my gosh, this is the home of my friend's father,
and we sure enough my friend was.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
In the kitchen like hey Ginger.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, but no, I'd never have ever walked into one
where you knew anything about the person. You create a
story about the person based on their things. Yeah, based
on their home, the condition of their home, and their things.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
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Speaker 2 (16:00):
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Welcome to Murphy Salmon Joni after the show podcast A
very thrifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, in a state sale if that's not the same
thing as thrifting, Really, he's going to an estate sale
is not considered thrifting, is it?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I would say it is potentially became genre because in
a state sale, depending on the price, So I guess
the difference would be you can actually haggle.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If I heard some of that going on, I do
not do that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And what's going to happen to the stuff left over
after the estate sale?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I assume donation through a thrift shop.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh okay, fine, there's the connection. Good for you now,
you would have loved this. In fact, when Phoebe and
I were leaving, I do want to tell you. I
will get to the reason we're bringing it back up
is the one thing that.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Phoebe is going to go back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
She's waiting for the last day because she wants this
thing that was hanging on the wall for sixty percent off.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And I'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But when Phoebe and I were leaving this estate sale
in our neighborhood the other day, Murphy, you would have
been so interested in what was happening at the checkout.
Oh really, the living room of this home and they've
set up their table and there's some there's a young
man standing there and he was explaining to them, like,
you're not going to get four hundred dollars for this,
(01:11):
and it's some sort of photographic or dark room equipment,
and he said, I, you know, I run a dark room.
I live about an hour away, and this is what
you'll get for it. And I'm offering you this. He's like,
I'll give you one hundred and fifty for it right now,
he says, but you're not going to get four hundred
for it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't even know what it was, but it was
just so interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I thought Murphy would be pretending to look at stuff
just to listen to that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Did they take the one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No idea, because I left because I don't care.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
The thing. The thing about that is you have to
be prepared to pay cash if you're going to do
that right, because if you negotiate a price down with
the card, they're still paying a fee, you know, to process,
so they will not negotiate with you on that. But
have you got the cash for it? You can well
I haven't done that in a while, and you just
have to you have to be polite with it. You're
not being pushy or anything. And I'm sure this guy
was fine.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, it was nice. He was self spoken.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But it's funny that you say what happened now that
I'm putting myself in that spot when I'm when Phoebe
and I were leaving.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I did hear her say back to Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh oh that she would be in that area next
week and if it didn't sell, she would call him
something like that, So that is good.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, and you said they were using in a state
sale company, right, so yes, this was a family Yeah,
so they take a percentage of it, you know, which
is and it's a smart thing. I mean, I can
tell you you know when of course, when I lost
both of my parents, when my father passed, that's where
we had to clean out his house and we didn't
wind up going that route. There really wasn't enough stuff
(02:42):
to sell. I guess somebody could have. But it's a
lot easier too, because when you're talking about in estates se,
you're talking about so much stuff that it's just easier
to have somebody do it. And you know, take a
percentage and what normally happens. But you've taken the things
that you don't want. You know that that are family
heirlooms or whatever that you want to keep.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Whenever you walk into it. I used to at the
when I first started going to them. It made me
feel really weird. And there were certain parts of the
home I wouldn't go in. I would never go into
a woman's closet or like you know. And now it's
the first place I cap really Phoebe knows. And Phoebe
could not wait to get into the closet. We didn't
know what to expect. You can walk into one and
go that's not me.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm out. Well, she was.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Telling me, Mom, get in here. There's a bunch of
stuff in this closet.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We have to see.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You sent me a picture of something that I do
hope goes at sixty percent off, okay, because I would
have had the same conversation with them that the guy
with the photography stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Was it the Bow's thing?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, Jenny sends me a picture.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Of all the equipment I noticed end to him.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah it's a Bow's three stacker CD whatever, a speaker
changer thing, and they're trying to sell it for two
hundred bucks and that's way overpriced. Yeah, I mean really,
if you ever want to price comparison shop and you're
at an estate sale, you know what the best way
to do it is, I gues. You don't go to them, no,
not Google. You go to eBay and see what it's
(04:03):
being resold for on eBay, because that's actually what if
somebody is not going necessarily the estate's you know, company route.
A lot of times that's what will happen. Somebody will
show up at the end of an estate sale and
say I will buy all this from you for this price,
and then they swort and then they resell it on eBay.
Sometimes you get it for free at the end, you
know what I mean. But yeah, so it's a it's
(04:27):
really good because you've got a marketplace and sort of
a market value that you can work off of. To know,
I didn't do that with this one. I just know
from you know, being the electronics freak that I am,
because it involves CDs. Yes, it's got the boat neighbor right,
it's not going to it's not going to sell for that,
so you know, well, I'll go walk down the street
(04:47):
Tuesday when everything's sixty percent off, and.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, if this was a Saturday through Tuesday thing, and
Phoebe is planning to go back Tuesday because there were
these In some strange part of the house.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
There were these.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't know what you call these things, these little
doll faces with crochet dresses hanging like it's like a
doll face with crochet around the face and the bottom
looks like a little skirt and it's crocheted. Somebody made
it and it's hanging on the wall.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I think that was part of a craft kit or
something correct.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And Phoebe has always been that person like she wants
one of those.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And she was like, I'm not paying ten dollars for that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Though it's not a spooky thing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think it's spooky looking, but she doesn't. She will
if she goes back and gets one of those, she
will name it. I know this child, she will name it.
She'll have an interesting name, and she'll hang it in
her apartment or she'll have it in her car.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
She's just like that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I even told her, I said, do not buy
something like that and drop it in my house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the reason I didn't want to go to the
estates soul. I said, Phoebe, I have enough stuff. Look
around you.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I have a home full of stuff that I'm constantly
trying to reorganize home at it, I'm donating stuff all
the time.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't need to go.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And then she was like, but what if there are
nice clothes jewelry there. I'm like, okay, fine, I'm there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, And sure enough, I bought a pair of earrings.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm wearing a little pair of costume like studs that
were just so pretty. They're a pink stone, you know,
they're costume jewelry. So it'll last me a couple of
years until it looks kind of walking and then I'll
get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But I paid five dollars for them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think it these days, it would have to be
something that really speaks to me. Because of the same time,
I didn't want to bring any more stuff in. I've
gone through my vinyl recollection phase. I'm done with that
because it still takes up a lot of space, you know.
I mean it's when we went when CDs came out.
I got rid of my original vinyl collection as a kid,
and then lo and behold. Then I start bringing, you know,
(06:39):
buying it back.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So the things that I found I've wanted because they're
you know, they're either original pressings or something like that.
But I've stopped. Yeah, I've stopped doing that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I we'll tell you it's too easy to collect.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It was fun the crowd and there was fun, like,
So I want to take you to the lady's closet
really quick, and then I'll tell you one other piece
of electronic weird thing that I did not send you
a picture of yet, but I will. I have a
picture of it. So in the ladies closet, Phoebe was
just blown away. Wanted me to see. She's not interested
in it, neither am I. But this woman had a
lot of fur coats oh maybe you know, maybe not
(07:13):
the most expensive in the world, but just a lot
of different like and real animal like.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, it five or six of them. Boom boom boom,
boom boom.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So it was a thing for her. There were also
a ton of scarves, and Phoebe bought a scarf. I
bought it for her for two dollars and it's so
cute and beautiful and we were looking up videos of
how to style it because she wants to sort of
style it. And it's like it's a thin, little one.
It's not like a big winter one. It's a pretty, pretty, little,
just accent scarf.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But in the in her closet, I think I mentioned
in the show today that I found gloves, formal gloves,
long white formal gloves with like pearl looking buttons, and
I showed Phoebe. I said, look, I'm just showing you this.
I don't want them neat on them. I said, but
look at this. You don't see this every day, and
you would probably have to order this online because even
(08:02):
formal shops might not have this. And she, you know,
she's an old soul. She was like, man, I wish
that would come back. I'm like, well, you could do it.
Next time you dress up, you can do it. It
is classic, but you don't see that. And right underneath
those gloves, I saw something and I had to. I
called her back. I said, Phoebes, come here, and I
picked them up and they were in perfect condition, more
(08:22):
than one pair of legwarmers. Oh from an a lady girl.
I was like, foeb'es, I know you don't know what
this is, but you would just put these on over
your pants.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Were they were they in a pouch with Jane Vonda's
face on it. No, not those kind of leg warmers.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And they were that kind of letting nineteen eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yes, rainbow color or no.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That one was blue and then another one was cream colored,
and they just looked And even this this young girl
who was kind of shopping along with us, we didn't
even know her name. I had shown Phoebe a really
pretty pink sweater. I said, this is a cardigan sweater.
You can do a million things with this. It looks
like you. And Phoebe's like, it does look like me,
but I wouldn't wear it. And that girl grabbed it
and she'd be like, I'm going to take it. But
(09:02):
and she was looking at the lag warmers too, and
it's like and she you could tell she thought about it.
It's wintertime, you know. There they were like a dollar
or two dollars and they were in perfect condition. But
it's just not something now. It probably will come back
one day.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I can see how the fashion stuff would be the
big takeaway, like the jewelry and the clothes and that
sort of thing for you, you know, for you.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, And I did buy a belt. It's pink. What
a pink belt? And it fit me?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What what I'm really interested in? And I've not really
gone crazy down the path, and I won't go crazy
down the path. Jody knows this already, and uh it's
I am really keeping my eye out for mid century
modern lamps and things like that. I produced her faith
knows that I love that kind of stuff too. And
there's a bunch of stuff that I I have favored it,
(09:52):
favorited it, you know, on on eBay, but some of
them are just selling for ridiculously insane prices. I have two.
One is actually my grandmother's and I had the matching set,
but I broke one of them by accident unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well it was a big it's big, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Huge with the big tall, you know lamp shade, and
it was ceramic and they call that it's not a
lava lamp, but it's a volcanic kind of a lava look.
That was, you know, the style in the sixties. And
then I found a smaller, you know one that is
just that white round one and I was going to
go get a crazy tall top four, but that didn't work,
so I got the and I forget the right. Yeah,
(10:29):
I see, I just don't know the names of the
styles of them. There's Danish style, there's I think that's
you know this. I love all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't know the lamp.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
My point is if if we go to in a
state sale, and I guess it's probably tougher to find
that stuff because if it's from the.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Sixties, well this would be the one to go see.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Some of those people aren't alive anymore, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I remember the lamps, Murphy. But I want to tell
you one other thing that took a quick picture of.
I told you there was a water pick in that
bathroom that was very old but clean, but very old.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It was also this do you see that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh it's an old answer answering machine, the phone with
an answering machine.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the box is there to phone mate
forty six fifty answering machine with speaker phone?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No forty six bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, I guess you start high, you know, yeah,
because the first day everything's full price. The second day
it's like, is it twenty five? I don't know how
I don't remember the breakdown that's written on the door
on a place card and Phoebe takes a picture of it.
She knows she's already done the math on those crazy
doll things with the crochet skirts that she might go
(11:38):
back and try to get.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, when you start trying to explain something like
an answer you know, a phone answering system, you know,
for one thing, you start to hear yourself explaining that
it's like what, Yeah, so you see what used to happen? Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And what used to happen is we used to get
creative with them too.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Can you record it and record it and record.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And then every now and then the tape would get full, Yes,
I said tape, and you'd have to change the cassette
out and yeah, I know. And that was what's so funny,
is I remember my grandmother was the first to give
my parents that that was That was like the family gift.
My aunts and uncles each got one, and my parents
got the quote unquote answer phone. That's the that was
the term for it.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, And it was.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
This massive box with these click knobs on it, and
it didn't even have a phone attached to it. You
just plugged it through the system and you couldn't change
tapes out either. It's just it was this massive boat
anchor of a piece of equipment. And I think again
trying to explain that to somebody, I wouldn't pay forty
five bucks for that. I don't think i'd pay four
bucks forever.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
They don't need it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's gonna it's gonna become it's gonna end up in
your own your estate sales.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And you know, I mean that's the kind of thing
that it's a great prop if needed for all, you know,
donate that to a little theater or something like that,
you know, right.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, little theaters, community theater, right, correct. Anyway, I just
thought I would share that because it was just so fun.
I mean I almost didn't even tell her about it,
and then we wouldn't have all these little stories to
tell you. I wouldn't have, yeah, because I saw it
and she didn't. She was just hanging out at the
house with our cousin James and Taylor. But I knew
as soon as I told her it was going to
(13:15):
be a deal. In fact, the next day, yesterday, she
took James back. They went back together. They were looking
for some sort of army bag that was there. She
knew that he liked army stuff, but it was gone.
Somebody had purchased it on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You get to feel in those scary looking baby face
things are going to be there Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I do. I cannot imagine another soul.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
On this planet who really wants those. But you never know,
You really never know. If you ever have a chance
to just stop into one, it's hit or miss. And
even if you don't buy a thing, it's just it's
worth chatting.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Look, I haven't done it in a while. I just
loved that because you know there are stories there. You
can literally see somebody's life story explain by the things
that they've owned.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I could see where this woman had traveled. You could
see all the books that she had, and then some
of the jewelry. The costume jewelry that I bought was
just out and you could grab it and they would
put in a bag for you with your name on it.
But there was other there's a lot of other jewelry
under glass that you had. They her real jewelry, and
they had it priced way up as if new to you.
(14:23):
So I mean, that would be interesting to see on
Tuesday if they've taken that out of the equation and
they're going to sell that, or they're actually offering that
at sixty percent off.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That would be interesting to me to know.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I need to go back and see. Jody also sent
me a picture of a reel to reel machine.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So sorry, yeah, I forgot to show you, but.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It was the consumer version of that. There was a
professional yeah, right, but there were consumer reel to real machines.
My dad didn't have one of those, but I had
an uncle that did for whatever reason. I mean, I
don't know what you would do with them. I don't
know where you bought the tape.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
To do that, but they would buy the album on tape.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think maybe what they were doing it was sort
of like an audio file kind of thing where they'd
take their own songs and record them onto them and
they have one big tape that they can play at
parties or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I mean, like the iPhone playlist.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, which is a whole lot easier to use.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm curious to one question about the person that lived there.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Okay, that's what I wanted to know. They don't like
post a little.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, they do not.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
It was a person and no they do not.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's all business. In fact, I've never really walked into one.
One time we walked into one where it was like,
oh my gosh, this is the home of my friend's father,
and we sure enough my friend was.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
In the kitchen like hey Ginger.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, but no, I'd never have ever walked into one
where you knew anything about the person. You create a
story about the person based on their things. Yeah, based
on their home, the condition of their home, and their things.
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