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Well it is the day before Christmas and all the through the house! It was packed with all the people fighting trying clean out the Isles!  That was the way I saw it anyway!   I made the annual day before Christmas Wally World Trip! Let me tell the store was full of people going mad trying to find the perfect gift for Cousin Joe!

            It is like clock-work, every year all the Country Folks Flee from the hills getting that last minute Christmas Gift! They all arrive at Wally World speeding and trying to get the best spot by going on the wrong way! No matter how fat you are going, someone wants to get there faster! I call it World War Wal-mart!

I got to the store at 4 and walked around for awhile. I was lost in crowd of hundreds just trying to find that last minute gift.   The first place I went was Electronics! Man let me tell you, they did not have enough stuff! I bet there were 20 people looking at just the Cameras!     I saw maybe 15 people checking out there TV selection! So I walked over to the Computer section and looked around and I was shocked they had some decent stuff!   They also have some nice televisions!

Well it was time to head to the toy section and find my three nieces some toys!  As I walked and looked at all cheesy toys they had , all I could think is how most of the Toys came from china! I wondered how many had some lead paint or were just dangerously cheaply made! You know it’s all you see on the news these days! “Today more lead paint was found in a xxxxx toys product!” IT is a crazy world and then after not finding anything decent I suddenly got depressed.

This time I got depressed cause all these people were gone mad shopping!  That is when it hit me!  I have been one of these people for years now and U figured that I have became comfortable standing in line spending another dollar, year after year!!

This is where I had to pause and think about this for a minute! Breathe Johnny breath!  I was a Wally World junky the same as all the others! So now I decided to walk over to the book and magazine section. Ok once again I was disappointed, where are the good magazines? (And Not the Dirty ones, they will carry them one day, wait and see!) I was meaning where are the marketing and internet mags? They really didn’t have much to choose from! I found a 100 start-ups for less than $500 dollars. HUmm interesting! So I opened it up and checked it out! It was full of a bunch fluff and a few cool things to sell and make profit! I was disappointed that they didn’t have a decent internet marketing books or Mags?   I was mad at this point so I walked over and grabbed some of that dried fruit that they are so yummy!  Dried Apricots is some really good stuff! Then I walked over to one of the check out lines and was so shocked!  Through all the madness I walked up and found an empty line! The first time I didn’t have to wait in line! 

Well as I was driving down the road I stuffing my mouth full of those yummy Apricots and started thinking back! IT was two weeks ago and I had to make a late trip to Wal-mart to get some plugs and plug-wires! My car started cutting out and I figured it was a fowled plug! So I was about to change my plugs and wires! So I go into the Parts section and spend about 15 minutes looking for wires! So finally I saw someone working and asked her where the wires were! Guess what she said, we don’t carry wires! My mouth dropped open and I was shock, I asked her when this happened?  She said they just stopped carrying them! I was like what in the world that is crazY!

After spending my whole life getting my Wire and Plug Needs, they decide to stop carrying them! So I think after this last go around, I may stop my relationship. Well everyone I hope you watch out for those late last minute crazy shoppers! Merry Christmas!

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Opps I did again! A few weeks ago I was driving down the road on my way back home from Wal-Mart when I decided to stop in the local junk store! Well I went in and did my usual round and right before I stepped out the door I went back into the electronics room one more time and there sat a pile of gold!

  Well she really didn’t know what she had and sold me the piece for $20.  Well if your wondering I found a Hartke HA500 bass head.  I have been playing music for years so I knew the head was worth a lot. Well I snagged the head and headed back home and looked on EBay to see what they were selling for.  It looked like they were going for around $550 new and if I was lucky I might get a few hundred bucks out of it! 

The amp head was in great shape but it was making a little noise. So I opened it up and it was missing one of the pre amp tubes. So I made a trip to the local music store and snagged a tube for $10.  So at this point I have  $30 bucks in the amp.  Well a few days later I decided to list it on EBay. I put it on a 5-day auction and sat and waited and waited.

  Well it got down to the last hour and my main bidder mailed me and decided he wanted to withdraw his bid! So I mailed him back and told him not to bid on and someone else would beat his bid. In my reply I explained how the head was awesome sounding and how he was getting a super deal!  Guess what he did?  He got in a bidding war with this other guy and won! 

Take a gander and guess what the head went for? It went for $315, so I made a $295 profit from the Hartke.  Oh yeah I forgot that I did lose $20 bucks on my shipping! I guessed that it weighed 25lbs and it really weighed 35. On a  3 day trip to Alabama to California that can get pricey! So always weigh what you are selling so you don’t lose money.  After all though I came away with $275 from the item!

  If you are wondering, I am from a little town near Fort Payne Alabama and there isn’t much to do here but hit all the junk stores that you can hit.  If you keep your eyes open and know what you are looking for you can make money. Most of the people that run thrift stores and junk stores just want to move stuff and make a little money. I would say that Junk flipping is a new hobby I have taken a liken to.  Just be aware that shipping is at a super high right now, them darn gas prices! 

 You don’t always win though! Sometime you will buy something thinking it will sell great and it won’t sell at all.  I wouldn’t bank on making a living junk Flipping, but it is a great way to make an X-tra buck every once in awhile. Give Junk Flipping a try and enjoy the new hobby I have found.

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Johnny C
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