He says it ONLY cost him $45. I don't know if that's a good bargain for a double washtub. I don't use a double washtub myself, nor a single washtub. In fact, I don't use a washtub at all. Nor beat my clothes with a rock down by the creek. I have a washer and dryer, and am most definitely not in the market for a washtub.
Hick said they are going for $100, so I guess he DID get himself a bargain. Never mind that we have another double washtub sitting on the porch, which has been there for months. I don't think anybody is breaking their neck in a rush to buy double washtubs.
Maybe they could be used by crafty people using them as planters. Or perhaps the Amish, for washing their modest, unrevealing clothing. Too bad the Amish won't be looking for a Buy/Sell/Trade bargain like this on their iPhone any time soon. There goes my chance at bartering for a good pie.
The Storage Unit Store usually closes for the winter. So I'm not sure how Hick plans to flip this double washtub. One thing for sure, he's not going to sell it while it sits under the carport in front of his Gator.
$100 seems high, but Hick has a pretty good eye for prices. I'd probably pay about $5 to not have to bring them home.
ReplyDeleteI guess the value comes from being old, and joined together on that table. The one on the porch is just like it, but not in such good shape. I'd pay you $5 (EACH) to come make them disappear.
DeleteHick may have a good eye for prices but Joe has the best comment!
ReplyDeleteJoe does have a track record of best comments. Thank your lucky stars that in complimenting Joe, you did not disparage my dearest Hick, the light of my life, whose praises I sing every day!
DeleteThat looks like the genuine old-style galvanised zinc and I've never seen a double on a stand before. We used to have a large oval shaped one and mum would have a washboard in there rubbing the shirts and things with soap each week, then rinsing them in the concrete laundry tub with 'blue' in the water, before we got a washing machine.
ReplyDeleteThree times a week, that tub would be on the kitchen floor in front of the fire, with warm-not-hot-but-not-too-cool either water and we would all take a bath, in the days before we got a bathroom with a proper tub and a chip heater for running hot water
Maybe that explains its value. Hick used to take his baths in a #7 washtub. I think that's the number. His blind dad heated water on the stove. Hick, the middle of three brothers, volunteered to take the first bath, so he could have the clean water.
DeleteI guess South Australia is too far away to be delivering the not-so-good set on your porch?
ReplyDeleteA little far. With our postal service here in Backroads, I can't guarantee it would make it out of Missouri.
DeleteHick buys the very best junk--I mean stuff!! How else could you afford to live in the Mansion?
ReplyDeleteYes, he has to earn his keep!
DeleteI would give him $25 and an Emu egg …...
ReplyDeleteHick DOES like to barter...
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