Besides buying a new vehicle I would like to invest in some nice logo mats to use, I think that they would be a nice touch for my customers to stand on while getting my name out. A nice logo canopy to use when outside and in wet weather would be a good choice as well. If I could count on the flea markets inside I would even consider purchasing some trade show carpet, I’ve seen some real nice ones being used out there, but there are no guarentees from what I’ve heard in the flea market business.

As a matter of fact, I barely remember what it looked like. If the several possible interested parties had not described my own bag to me, I swear I wouldn’t have had the faintest idea of what they were talking about!

But it figures that once you’re lead to believe something isn’t as cool as what you’d originally thought it might be, and you toss it on the back burner, so to speak, everybody suddenly wants it! Usually I’ll have already sold or otherwise disposed of whatever it was that didn’t show any promise, but this is one of those times that I still thought it was cool, even if everybody else ignored it at the time. Now I have to find where I put it and reassess it’s value, then I can put the phone back on the hook.

I didn’t even know that this place even existed for heaven’s sake. She came home with a camera full of interesting and colorful pictures, that she emailed me, the last photo being of the counter that displayed many old time candies, including the fake cigarettes that used to be so popular back in the day.

After a two year loan to the United States, Michelangelo’s David is finally returning back home to Italy.

I took a gander at a few sites earlier today that target Wholesalers, there is a lot to take in. I wouldn’t want to have to make the decision on what to buy in order to make a buck or two, but there are plenty folks out there that are trying their darnedest to survive in these horrific economic times that are government has gotten us into. It’s all about the money and it takes money to make money, right.

Come spring I’m heading out to a few of the local flea markets, I enjoy going to some of them through out the year. Some more than others. I try and stay away from ones that are full of baby products and clothes and Beanie Babies. There are good people to be found going on there folks, like I said I know many vendors that are trying to make a living doing this laborious task, week after week, month after month, year after year, rain or shine, heck it can be snowing and you would find at least a handful of people showing up looking for the “Bargain of The Day”

I made it to my car right as the rains came. I felt bad leaving so many of the vendors in such a state, but I asked a few of them if they needed by help, but they all seemed good to go. I’m sure thousands of dollars were lost yesterday in merchandise, props and equipment, not a profitable one for most of them in the end.

It never seems to amaze me how so many people bring their dogs to this market. It just doesn’t make sense. It is an outside market, on a black top parking lot of an elementary school. These poor dogs are walking on this extremely hot surface while their idiot owners are looking around not even seeing how their dogs are burning their paws. It was in the high 90′s yesterday, so you know that the parking lot was burning hot.

People leave the dogs at home, have a heart!