Stop walking past the broken small appliances at estate sales, that's where the real money is
I used to skip anything with a cut cord at garage sales until a guy in Phoenix sold me a busted KitchenAid mixer for $8 and I had it spinning again with a $6 worm gear off eBay. That one flip taught me the whole game, because most folks toss stuff that just needs one cheap plastic part swapped out. Now I dig through every dead toaster and lamp pile at estate sales, and last month I turned a $5 bread machine into $60 on Facebook Marketplace. The repair takes 20 minutes and a YouTube video, so why does everyone keep paying full price for new junk? What's the best broken thing you ever talked down to almost nothing?