"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Larry Jaques wrote:

If you decide to take up the violin and can't fix that one within a
tight budget, grab one from an eBay vendor for as little as $25.
They're handsomely made, good sounding instruments, too. I doubled my
money selling it locally for half the price the locals get for similar
instruments. (My neck didn't like the fiddlin' position at all so I
had to give it up before I learned much.)

http://tinyurl.com/62hrgkg $24, $19 to ship.
Violin, bow, rosin, strings, case, tuner.

http://tinyurl.com/63a3qvp $2 auction, $19 to ship.

Good Lord!

I had no idea violins could be had so cheaply.

Heck, they're cheap enough to use for DECORATION, even if one can't play
it!

I go to a LOT of yard sales. I've seen them for $5, and for that, they
would be a great wall piece. I've also seen $500 pieces of this and that
where the people only want $5. You just need to know what you're looking
at, whether it's a coin, a gun, a woodworking tool, a router set, a really
nice set of Forstners, whatever.

Yard sale story: International pickup bed with trailer tongue on side of
highway with "FREE" sign on it. It has a spare. Tires are flat. Hitch
doesn't have ball clasp, so I have to chain it on and tow it five miles to
my house. Go pump up the tires and drag it home. Plan is, I'm going to
use it for hauling around my ranch property. SWMBO rolls eyes, seeing it as
another one of my pointless endless worthless projects. I see hubcaps and
chrome wheel rings. Average condition Put a set of three hubcaps and three
rings on Ebay. Get $148. Advertise the trailer on Craigslist, get $35.

I guess there are people who would have told me the trailer was useless. I
don't always listen to people. My Daddy could swear to that.

Steve

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