Sam or Mary Yancy on mon 17 nov 03
one way the goverment spends money, sells the good furnature in ofices and schools and buys junk about every five years. Helps out the special interest companies who donate to the politicians. No reason about this - only the local insanity. Sam in daly City
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:Hi Sharon,
The school system surplus auctions here are very good too.
I have not been in years...I forget about them by
accident...
But when I did go, they were full of great, older, clean,
nice, hi-quality 'institutional' Steel furniture and Fileing
Cabinets and old Oak 'Lab' tables with the thick hard rubber
tops, and so on, all dirt cheap (like $5.00 each or so).
Ironicly, a friend of mine who is a middle school teacher
( or was) - I helped her set up her classroom a few months
ago.The desk the fileing cabinet and her chair and so on,
were all the tinniest most disgusting dented wobbley
junk...which is what the other teachers all had as well.
While, the 'grab and tear the tag and you bought it for 5
bucks' of 'Auctions' had disseminated all the 'eternal',
well made, sturdy, good looking, heavy Fileing Cabinets,
Desks, Chairs and so on...
I gave her one of my 1940s Green, thumb-latch-drawered,
Steel, four drawer fileing cabinets to use in her
classroom...it was the envy of the other teachers.
I was going to outfit her whole ensombe, but...she quit.
Curiously, a friend of hers needed a good fileing cabinet
for his business office and had not been happy with the ones
at the Office Supplu Stores, and, when we brought mine/hers
to him to see, he loved it and asked "How Much?" - I
jokingly said "A Hunderd bucks"...he disappeared and then
handed her a check for a hundred bucks so fast it made would
make your head spin...
Funny world!
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheron Roberts"
Me, my husband and a potter friend
attended a school system surplus
auction last week. We bought
6 metal computor cabinets with
double doors, nice big locking
castors(wheels) holes in the back
for, hmmm let's see, maybe adding
a light bulb? Bingo, nice drying
cabinets, or clay storage or even
wet cabinets. We bid for and got
the lot for $11.00. There were several
ATV carts, some with cabinets, some
with shelves only. Nice and sturdy.
For the life of me I don't know why
some of this stuff was on the auction
block. I watched computers, monitors
and printers auctioned off at $1.00 and
2.00 dollars a set. The school system
here does this once a year. This year
they had everything from electric
skillets (wax melters) to beautiful
solid wood map stands (paper
storage for 2D art).
Sheron in NC
(where I have spent a weekend of
playing with the new grandbaby and
learning German from his other
Grossmutter(grandmother) )
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pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on mon 17 nov 03
Hi Sharon,
The school system surplus auctions here are very good too.
I have not been in years...I forget about them by
accident...
But when I did go, they were full of great, older, clean,
nice, hi-quality 'institutional' Steel furniture and Fileing
Cabinets and old Oak 'Lab' tables with the thick hard rubber
tops, and so on, all dirt cheap (like $5.00 each or so).
Ironicly, a friend of mine who is a middle school teacher
( or was) - I helped her set up her classroom a few months
ago.The desk the fileing cabinet and her chair and so on,
were all the tinniest most disgusting dented wobbley
junk...which is what the other teachers all had as well.
While, the 'grab and tear the tag and you bought it for 5
bucks' of 'Auctions' had disseminated all the 'eternal',
well made, sturdy, good looking, heavy Fileing Cabinets,
Desks, Chairs and so on...
I gave her one of my 1940s Green, thumb-latch-drawered,
Steel, four drawer fileing cabinets to use in her
classroom...it was the envy of the other teachers.
I was going to outfit her whole ensombe, but...she quit.
Curiously, a friend of hers needed a good fileing cabinet
for his business office and had not been happy with the ones
at the Office Supplu Stores, and, when we brought mine/hers
to him to see, he loved it and asked "How Much?" - I
jokingly said "A Hunderd bucks"...he disappeared and then
handed her a check for a hundred bucks so fast it made would
make your head spin...
Funny world!
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheron Roberts"
Me, my husband and a potter friend
attended a school system surplus
auction last week. We bought
6 metal computor cabinets with
double doors, nice big locking
castors(wheels) holes in the back
for, hmmm let's see, maybe adding
a light bulb? Bingo, nice drying
cabinets, or clay storage or even
wet cabinets. We bid for and got
the lot for $11.00. There were several
ATV carts, some with cabinets, some
with shelves only. Nice and sturdy.
For the life of me I don't know why
some of this stuff was on the auction
block. I watched computers, monitors
and printers auctioned off at $1.00 and
2.00 dollars a set. The school system
here does this once a year. This year
they had everything from electric
skillets (wax melters) to beautiful
solid wood map stands (paper
storage for 2D art).
Sheron in NC
(where I have spent a weekend of
playing with the new grandbaby and
learning German from his other
Grossmutter(grandmother) )
____________________________________________________________
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