http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=403x3670Oh my.
Vinca (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 08:24 AM
THE HIP-IMPAIRED VINDICTIVE PRIMITIVE, A NOTORIOUS RE-SELLER
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Does anyone know about vintage clothes sprinkler bottles?
In all my years of picking, I've never run across any until this year. Now I've got a yellow clothespin sprinkler and a pink elephant with clovers on his tummy. I've found sales of blue clothespin sprinkler bottles and pink elephants without clovers, but none for the exact ones I have. Trying to figure out pricing.
Oh, I'm sure the vindictive primitive won't have any trouble pricing them.
Some here are familiar with the vindictive primitive, a notorious re-seller. Rather than holding down an honest job in a factory or cleaning offices, the vindictive primitive is one of these people who make a "living" (quotation marks intentional, as in the end, it's not that lucrative) cheating other people.
The vindictive primitive goes to garage sales to buy items to re-sell. She'll find a Louis XIV spinet, and insisting it's just a piece of fiberboard junk, tries pay the seller fifty cents for it. Or she takes a ceramic bowl with the MADE IN RED CHINA logo on the bottom, and sells it to an unsuspecting buyer as authentic Wedgewood china, fifty bucks for the piece.
Re-sellers make oil companies and banks seem generous benefactors of humanity.
Anyway.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 01:19 PM
THE FARMERETTE FROM UP OVER THERE IN WISCONSIN
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1. oh, those sound fun
I pick up clothspin bags when I see them if they are interesting or filled with old clothspins. But I never thought about looking for sprinklers. What were the prices on the ones you saw?
Vinca (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 03:01 PM
THE HIP-IMPAIRED VINDICTIVE PRIMITIVE, A NOTORIOUS RE-SELLER
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2. The pink elephant without the clover sold on ebay for $25.
I get the impression the clover one is more valuable, but I haven't found one for sale anywhere. There was a blue clothespin one on ebay that sold for $119. (There's another sale there billed as a yellow clothespin sprinkler, but that's not it.) When I first found the yellow clothespin sprinkler there was another blue one on ebay that sold for $172. That Worthpoint site has the magic number, I'm sure, but I'm too cheap to pay them when I can usually find the values on my own.
Yeah. Nobody's going to cheat the vindictive primitive; she's too sharp for that.
The vindictive primitive's the sort who makes it a point to cheat the other guy first, before he can cheat her.
Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 07:04 PM
THE CHRONICALLY HELPLESS PRIMITIVE
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3. I can tell you only that I had to use these darn things as a kid.
Sprinkle clothes, roll up, refrigerator overnight and then iron after school the next day.
Geeze, I never made my kids do that. Saw one of those bottles at a sale last weekend. Couldn't even look at it. Visions of hell. A 12 year old should not have to iron like a professional. My mother was a perfectionist.
Phooey!
