Had three straight days of perfect luck at the flea market near Huntsville

I found a vintage leather jacket, a working 1980s lamp, and a box of first edition sci-fi paperbacks for under $30 total, but the fourth day I bought a broken blender and a moldy sleeping bag. Has anyone else had a streak like that where the universe just flips a switch?

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averym821mo ago

Wait, you got a vintage leather jacket AND first edition sci-fi paperbacks for under $30? That's insane. I've been hitting up flea markets for years and never scored anything that good. The moldy sleeping bag sounds about right though - the universe giveth and then it just dumps a rotten bag of garbage on you. I once found a pristine 1950s record player for $15, then the next week I bought a box of "vintage records" that were literally just warped copies of Herb Alpert. Your streak sounds like some kind of cosmic joke.

wendy_wilson1mo ago

That $15 record player find still haunts me honestly. But here's what I want to know - did you actually clean those warped Herb Alpert records and try to play them anyway? I did the same thing with a box of old gospel records once, thought I could flatten them out with some heavy books. Spoiler, they sounded like drowning robots. Your flea market luck sounds just like mine though, always one amazing find followed by something that makes you question your life choices.