During many garage sales that I visited I found some interesting things that could be useful for me. Over time, I noticed that the people running the sale randomly let me get for free, despite me asking them if it is a good idea. Some of them say that it is because I am a good boy preparing for life, that it is useful for me to have, and other things along those lines. It does not feel fair.
If there is something being sold that looks good, consider why they (The sellers) are trying to get rid of it. It may only work for a short time, long enough to demonstrate, or they just want to get it off their hands.
There have also been times when the way things that are being sold are wasteful, like buying an iMac and ditching a perfectly good monitor that could be useful, or a perfectly good iPhone 3 for an iPhone 4. That is what most Apple users are like, trying to get the best technology, whereas I am the kind who would use what ever is at hand and use it to its best. It saves money and I know better to just buy a better object than what I already have for a newer model. I sometimes tell people who are selling those sorts of things that it would be better if they kept it because it is still useful. By the way, the person selling the iPhone is the wife of a co-worker of mine in the school district office tech department, so we both are fond of computers.
The day I bought an Xbox 360 secondhand that smelt like cigarettes was the same day I bought six more desktops that I could repair and donate. Why not keep what is working fine and fix what doesn't work and not be so quick to buy a new model for the sake of being up to date? It is like the old saying, "If it is not broken, why fix it?" As I would say, "If it is working well, why replace it?"
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