It was practically free!
Jul. 7th, 2002 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2So we had a dual birthday party at my sister's house... my birthday and my nephew's birthday, which is actually tomorrow.
I didn't ask for anything in particular, except to mention that I could use some cd-r's. Who couldn't? And I got a giant box of them, 200 in a box large enough that for a moment I thought it was a cd-r drive rather than disks (but I don't need another drive ^_^ ).
Other than that I got clothes and some interesting things like a LIFE coffee table book about 9-11. And $75.00 cash from my parents.
After we got home, I looked through the local Little Nickel want ads. Among other things I've been looking for a bike. Mike told me to get a street bike first and a mountain bike later if I really wanted one, but I was more interested in just getting a cross or dual purpose like Jeff and Jeri-Lynn have, rather than buy two bikes... but more than anything else, I wanted one that was CHEAP, and also fairly new or in good condition, not a heavy clunker like Virus's.
There was an ad for a bike that cost them "$900.00, will sacrifice for $550.00". See, that's not the kind of ad I was looking for. Anytime someone is "sacrificing" something for more than half of what they spent on it, it's not a big enough sacrifice to interest me. What I've been looking for is someone who just wants to get rid of their bike no matter what. I mean, there are a lot of bikes out there that just sit in the garage and never get used. Somewhere, someone wants to practically give me a bike. Right?
So I checked the Sunday newspaper. There's a bike ad there too... two 21 speed mountain bikes, like new, $200/both.
$200.00 for both? $100.00 each?
This sounded more like it.
So I called the number. Well, he'd already sold one, but the other one was still available. Yeah, $100.00 was the price. Although he was willing to deal since it had been in his garage for two years and he'd only used it once... he just wanted to get rid of it.
Ah. Yes. That would be the kind of bike I'm looking for. ^_^
So my dad and I drove up to Castle Rock. It was a shiny red mountain bike, the tires were low on air, it didn't look used at all... I'm not entirely sure what kind of bike it is, he gave me a name but I've forgotten it... it says "KLR4000" on the side, and "dual suspension" below that, and "Shimano" in another spot. What I know is that it was the right price. I offered $80.00 for it, and he took it.
And since my parents gave me $75.00 for my birthday, it was practically free.
And since my dad got $75.00 in the mail Friday from some class-action lawsuit carried out on his behalf (he got a form in the mail many months ago and sent it back in)... well, the bike pretty much WAS free, wasn't it?
Sorta.
So... it's a mountain bike, but it's a bike that I own, and that's the important part.
Now I need to get up in the morning and go buy a bike rack for my car so I can bring my bike home. And I need a lock and... well, lots of other stuff now of course.
I don't know if that $450.00 check I got on Friday is going to survive long. I spent, I don't know, a couple of hundred dollars Friday and Saturday, just on clothes and gifts. I bought my 1.5 year old niece Ella a stuffed boston terrier (looks like my sister's dog), and she loved it. I bought my 4 year old niece Blair a book, a children's music cd, and a stuffed palamino pony that is very soft and very cute, and despite being floppy stands up easily (it's lightweight, but has bean-bag feet). Blair loved it. Ella loved it too. My sister Becky wanted one for herself. ^_^
And my nephew Austin was excited about the Yu-Gi-Oh cards, of course. ^_^ But I also gave him two books -- The Bronze Spear, which is a Newberry award winning book that I read when I was young, and The Phantom Tollbooth, which is of course almost as much fun as Alice In Wonderland. He's nine, and he doesn't read a lot himself, but his parents have been reading the Narnia books to him and these two books are more or less on the same level... Bronze Spear is a little more mature reading level I think. Anyway, good books.
I'm also going to haul home a computer that my dad doesn't want. It works fine, but it's only a 33mhz machine. But he was just going to give it away, so I offered to take it... don't know what I'll do with it though.
I didn't ask for anything in particular, except to mention that I could use some cd-r's. Who couldn't? And I got a giant box of them, 200 in a box large enough that for a moment I thought it was a cd-r drive rather than disks (but I don't need another drive ^_^ ).
Other than that I got clothes and some interesting things like a LIFE coffee table book about 9-11. And $75.00 cash from my parents.
After we got home, I looked through the local Little Nickel want ads. Among other things I've been looking for a bike. Mike told me to get a street bike first and a mountain bike later if I really wanted one, but I was more interested in just getting a cross or dual purpose like Jeff and Jeri-Lynn have, rather than buy two bikes... but more than anything else, I wanted one that was CHEAP, and also fairly new or in good condition, not a heavy clunker like Virus's.
There was an ad for a bike that cost them "$900.00, will sacrifice for $550.00". See, that's not the kind of ad I was looking for. Anytime someone is "sacrificing" something for more than half of what they spent on it, it's not a big enough sacrifice to interest me. What I've been looking for is someone who just wants to get rid of their bike no matter what. I mean, there are a lot of bikes out there that just sit in the garage and never get used. Somewhere, someone wants to practically give me a bike. Right?
So I checked the Sunday newspaper. There's a bike ad there too... two 21 speed mountain bikes, like new, $200/both.
$200.00 for both? $100.00 each?
This sounded more like it.
So I called the number. Well, he'd already sold one, but the other one was still available. Yeah, $100.00 was the price. Although he was willing to deal since it had been in his garage for two years and he'd only used it once... he just wanted to get rid of it.
Ah. Yes. That would be the kind of bike I'm looking for. ^_^
So my dad and I drove up to Castle Rock. It was a shiny red mountain bike, the tires were low on air, it didn't look used at all... I'm not entirely sure what kind of bike it is, he gave me a name but I've forgotten it... it says "KLR4000" on the side, and "dual suspension" below that, and "Shimano" in another spot. What I know is that it was the right price. I offered $80.00 for it, and he took it.
And since my parents gave me $75.00 for my birthday, it was practically free.
And since my dad got $75.00 in the mail Friday from some class-action lawsuit carried out on his behalf (he got a form in the mail many months ago and sent it back in)... well, the bike pretty much WAS free, wasn't it?
Sorta.
So... it's a mountain bike, but it's a bike that I own, and that's the important part.
Now I need to get up in the morning and go buy a bike rack for my car so I can bring my bike home. And I need a lock and... well, lots of other stuff now of course.
I don't know if that $450.00 check I got on Friday is going to survive long. I spent, I don't know, a couple of hundred dollars Friday and Saturday, just on clothes and gifts. I bought my 1.5 year old niece Ella a stuffed boston terrier (looks like my sister's dog), and she loved it. I bought my 4 year old niece Blair a book, a children's music cd, and a stuffed palamino pony that is very soft and very cute, and despite being floppy stands up easily (it's lightweight, but has bean-bag feet). Blair loved it. Ella loved it too. My sister Becky wanted one for herself. ^_^
And my nephew Austin was excited about the Yu-Gi-Oh cards, of course. ^_^ But I also gave him two books -- The Bronze Spear, which is a Newberry award winning book that I read when I was young, and The Phantom Tollbooth, which is of course almost as much fun as Alice In Wonderland. He's nine, and he doesn't read a lot himself, but his parents have been reading the Narnia books to him and these two books are more or less on the same level... Bronze Spear is a little more mature reading level I think. Anyway, good books.
I'm also going to haul home a computer that my dad doesn't want. It works fine, but it's only a 33mhz machine. But he was just going to give it away, so I offered to take it... don't know what I'll do with it though.
