20130526 - yardsale booty - Iron Man robot (2m45s)

We paid $4 for the Iron Man robot. Here's a review that is pretty accurate: "He falls and he falls a lot." (http://www.jerseyfamilyfun.com/iron-man-walking-rc-robot-toy-review-tuesday/) Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZfnXapCWCSE .... Theirs walks more than ours did. This thing is pretty funny, though.

shooting, walking.
Iron Man robot, rocket.
video.

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

May 26, 2013.

BACKSTORY:

Full report of this yard sale expedition can be found at: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/journal-yard-sales-20130525-2013-expedition-2-memorial-day-is-never-that-hot-for-yard-sales-why-do-we-keep-doing-this/

But in summary: A total of 5h3m hours (AGAIN?!) (3h24m spent driving, 1h39 spent at sales). Spent $26.25 plus ~$15.52 gas for 56.6 miles of driving (14 mpg @ $3.84/G), for a total cost of $41.77. We drove to 40 yard sales, stopping at 25 (62%) of them. We made 17 purchases (31 items) for a total estimated value of $320.02, leading to a profit/savings of $278.25.

So in essence, we multiplied our initial investment by 7.6X.

(Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $317 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $278 in cash that we saved here. How long does $278 of disposable income take to earn, vs the 5 hrs we spent here?)

Anyway, this works out to a post-tax "wage" of $55.10/hr as a couple or $27.55/hr per person.

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