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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on August 24, 2007, 09:11:01 PM
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Howdy all!
Well, I found another batch of dead guys whiskey at the local auction. I bought 6 bottles for eighteen bucks.
This Jim Beam was bottled in 1973. It was aged 175 months before that… Making the whiskey inside of the bottle older than I am.
Some guy probably spent a lot of money on this. Perhaps he was saving it for a special occasion... Who knows? In the end, he’s gone, and the bottle outlasted him. Then his kids just throw it in with the rest of his belongings at an estate auction. I swoop in like a vulcher and snatch these things up. (I rarely buy whiskey at a liquor store anymore.)
I strain it through a coffee filter (to remove old cork bits) on the way to it’s new, and very temporary home. My 100 year old little brown jug.
(http://www.filenanny.com/files/4690141cf359b3528/whiskey.JPG)
Cheers!
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good find. I tried an estate sale once in San Antonio. I found a couple of good deals but couldn't get over the creepy feeling of walking through a man's house looking at his stuff and going through his books, watching people go through his closets and clothes, I felt like... i dont know... trespassing or something...
enjoy the whiskey...:D
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Goaly,
You know, since you spend so much time at estate sales, you really ought to change your avatar. A cartoon buzzard would be more appropriate. :D
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Was it unopened with the tax seal unbroken?
Wouldn't it have been better to sell it?
There's people that'd pay mega bucks for it unopened.
The decanter ain't worth diddley now.
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Much more importantly... how was the whiskey?
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Much more importantly... how was the whiskey?
Sometimes I find it difficult to think of you as a slimely liberal. ;)
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Airscrew, At the estate auctions here the contents of the house are brought outside and items are either placed on rows of folding tables, or placed into rows on the ground. Everything comes out. The Pots and pans, the appliances, furniture, guns, and occasionally whisky bottles. The law states they can sell the bottle, not the whiskey that is in it, and they will announce, “We are selling this collectable bottle.”
The auctioneer then walks down the line and sells each item. This happens quickly. Only around 30 seconds is spent on an individual item… Unless the bidding is heavy.
The benefit of this is that the entire estate is sold in three to four hours. About half of the time the actual house is one of the items that is sold. One good thing for the estate is that unlike a tag sale, where you walk through the hose and things are already marked with a price, everything will sell. It may be clumped together with other items until they get a bid, but it all sells and goes away in one afternoon.
I go to 2 or 3 of these sales each week. You can get some real deals, and you never know what treasures will be found in the house and sold to the highest bidder. Some of it I buy for friends, some of it I keep, and some I sell on ebay. It’s a hobby that pays for itself.
As for the Jim Beam, I bought it to drink… Err, I mean for the “Collectable bottle”… that went to the curb with the rest of the trash.
CHEERS!
PS… Whiskey was as good!
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I felt like... i dont know... trespassing or something...
a Vulture?
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I don't feel bad going to estate sales at all.
Look at it this way. Whoever it was that has died and passed on, they don't need that stuff anymore. The family if there is any obviously doesn't want it.
So what could possibly be better than passing it down to someone else who will appreciate it. And pay for it, putting a few dollars in someones pocket, paying bills, etc. If your interested in something, and willing to make a decent bid, you really think the original owner would mind? Doesn't matter if its a bottle of old whiskey or granma's favorite vase. Wouldn't they rather see it being used by someone else who will appreciate it? I know I would.