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That old bronze bust I bought at a yard sale for $60 turned out to be a real headache
I found this dusty bronze bust at a yard sale in Santa Fe for $60, thought it was just some nice decor. Turns out it was a replica of a Civil War general, but the patina was all wrong and an appraiser told me it would cost $200 to fix it properly. I ended up leaving it in the backyard for a year to weather naturally, but raccoons kept knocking it over. Has anyone else bought something that looked like a steal but ended up being a money pit?
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oscarb7120h ago
Not sure I'd call a $60 yard sale bust a "money pit." That's like a normal inconvenience, not a sinkhole in your wallet. You could just sand it down and spray it with some Rust-Oleum for $8 and call it a day.
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ellis.susan19h agoTop Commenter
Honestly, that actually reminds me of this old lamp I picked up for like five bucks at a church rummage sale. It was all tarnished and the shade was basically a skeleton of what it used to be, and everyone told me to just spray paint it silver and call it a day. But I got obsessed with fixing it the "right" way, you know? Ended up spending like thirty hours stripping the old finish and rewiring the thing, and now it sits in my living room and occasionally flickers like it's haunted. So I get where you're coming from on the Rust-Oleum thing, but sometimes a cheap thing becomes a project just because you can't help yourself. Ngl, that bust probably has more character than a new one from Target either way.
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