I’ve become an Ebay junkie of sorts—buying and selling.

It all started when I recently purchased a 2-disk DVD set of the Sci-Fi Channel’s “Children of Dune” mini-series. I knew I had a lot to learn about Ebay when I bid on two of these sets and won them both. But that’s ok cuz that led me to selling on Ebay. After all, what was I going to do with two sets of the same show? Sure, I could give one of them as a gift, but I don’t know that many Frank Hebert fans (he’s the guy who wrote “Dune” and the subsequent books). Besides, if someone I’m close to wants to see “Children of Dune,” I’ll just loan it to them.

So I sold the extra DVD set for about what I paid for it.

Then I remembered this little pocketknife I found at a garage sale a few months back. i bought it from the lady who was having the garage sale for fifty-cents. She said it belonged to her deceased husband. (I'm a total gargage sale/flea market addict and have been so for years.) I didn't know much about pocketknives--still don't--but it looked kind of cool and kind of old so I sprung for the half-a-buck for it. It's been collecting dust in a drawer in my office since I bought it.

I snapped some digital stills of the knife and threw it up on Ebay. I guess it’s a pretty good one from a collectible point-of-view. I put a starting bid of $10 on it and set it up for a three-day auction. There’s still almost 24 hours left in this auction and last I looked my little half-buck pocketknife was selling for $88 and there’s quite a few bidders vying for it. I hear the real action happens right at the end of the auction, so who knows what this thing will ultimately sell for-- $100? $200? I’ll know soon enough.

While scouring Ebay for stuff I don't need, I stumbled upon this old, unassembled fruit crate from the "DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation." As gay as that sounds, and as much as I don't need a fruit crate--assembled or unassembled--I still had to bid on it. It looks like I’ll score the crate for $5. It’s probably going to cost me more for the shipping than for the item… Oh well.

You can check out my pocketknife right HERE if you like looking at shit like this.

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