I decided to start going to garage sales on the weekends with one of my close friends.
We look for old stereo equipment that we can either fix or resell.
Sometimes we’ll get lucky and find a really good turntable that still works. My friend’s father has been an electronics repairman since the 1970s. That’s where my friend learned all of his skills, while I learned mine on the internet as a hobbyist. We both contribute a lot to our shared hobby, and then we both share the profits of what we end up selling. Sometimes though we find things that garage sales don’t necessarily fit within the category of audio equipment. For example, one week we found a bunch of box fans for only $2 each. We bought all of them and they’re all working machines. Last week we were at the garage sale at the end of my road. The person there had a lot of HVAC equipment that they were selling. They had several space heaters and I saw a radiance space heater with quartz heating rods. I’ve always wanted a space heater like this so I decided to buy it. It was only $5 while brand new and a space heater like this is often $50. Amazingly too, the space heater still works really well. It’s a good machine and I know it’ll keep me warm when it gets really cold outside during the autumn and winter seasons. We get a lot of cold weather in this part of the country for at least 6 months out of the year. So it’ll be nice to finally get a break from all the frigid temperatures while I’m indoors.