Archive for May, 2008
Beer Cans
Just got lucky with a good hit, all on a hunch. I was driving through some small town out in the mountains when I decided to stop in at an old thrift store out in the middle of nowhere. As I was perusing the merchandise of said establishment I happened upon a shelf with about nine or ten dome top beer cans in pretty good shape! I couldn’t believe my eyes! Oh these cans were wonderful, labels intact, good color, and a few of them even had the original tops on them. Of course there were a few minor dents and scratches here and there, but they were really in good shape. What a find! And the proprietor thought he might be charging me a bit much at twenty dollars a can!
Toy Cars?
One of my friends and business partners called me to see if I wanted to take a collection of toy cars off his hands. He said he’d bought out one of those storage bins to get at the old mahogany furniture that was stored there and he came across a box just packed with Hot Wheels cars. At first I wasn’t interested until I remembered something about Hot Wheels with red lines around the tires from the 60’s and 70’s, and how they were pretty hot little collectibles with the potential to generate a boatload of income. So i asked him about the wheels on the cars and he confirmed that they all had red lines on them and that they all had metal bottoms. Most were from Hong Kong, the US and Mexico and I think he said Malaysia too. needless to say, I told him I’d take the whole lot off his hands. I won’t say how much I gave him for them, but I will tell you this, I’ve spent more money on a night on the town then I paid for this little present from my old buddy in the furniture trade!
Just Yapping
One of my business partners suggested we find a new style of marketing some of our gear. Perhaps even diversifying a bit so as to maximize our customer base and broaden our prospective clientele by opening up new avenues of revenue. How about that, I think I could be a poet of sorts if I keep rhyming my sentences like that. Can you tell I haven’t had a lot of sleep lately? Well, between keeping long hours working the trade shows, and even longer nights getting worked over by one good looking woman after another, I should be a bit tired out. Maybe I should just sleep on it awhile. Which reminds me, I’m going to have to get a new mattress. The one I have now makes my back hurt something awful at times.
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