{"id":106410,"date":"2013-05-04T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106410\/i-guess-its-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2013-05-04T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:59:18","slug":"i-guess-its-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106410\/i-guess-its-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess it’s the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess even yard sales are affected by the economy…The roomie and I got a fair turnout, but few buyers…and those that did wanted us to give the stuff away–well, at least in MY case…I WANTED $200 for the guitar amp and would have taken $100…I let it go for $65; I fully realize that’s ALL profit, but still…I sold absolutely NO CDs and one (1) book…I also got rid of the VHS player\/recorder and the VINTAGE cassette deck, again at MUCH lower prices than I wanted…I checked E-bay just to get some idea as to how much I should charge (quite a bit less than E-bay prices) and ended\u00a0 up further lowering the prices…Obviously the reason for having the yard sale was to get rid of stuff, nothing more…<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

and while I thought<\/span> I would be going out Saturday evening, I’m not…And not just because I’d possibly have to take the Bus…for one thing, I’m still very tired (in spite of getting a bit of a nap) and (more significantly) the roomie said she had a “feeling” that I shouldn’t go out…I actually (in my head) rehearsed a couple of songs, including one I wrote…such is Life (sigh) and I’m too tired to fight whoever\/whatever is in Charge…As many people say “Everything happens (or doesn’t) for a reason…” Therefore I surrender…<\/font>
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I guess even yard sales are affected by the economy…The roomie and I got a fair turnout, but few buyers…and those that did wanted us to give the stuff away–well, at least in MY case…I WANTED $200 for the guitar amp and would have taken $100…I let it go for $65; I fully realize that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}