Flea markets
A nephew of my sister-in-law has decided to befriend our family, and it seems that he spends every waking minute here. If he’s not here, he seems to be calling here. He likes to come over and help me work on my truck, and sometimes I help him work on his car. He is in the antique business, and he has a booth at an indoor flear market in a nearby city. He’s been trying to convince me to take a booth at the flea market too. I’ve been talking about it with my wife, and she suggested that I give it a try for a couple of months and see how it goes. We certainly have enough “junk” to haul down there to try to sell! It wouldn’t hurt to clear some of it out of our basement and make a few dollars from it! And it would be nice to get out of the house a little bit more now that the good weather is coming. The only thing that bothers me about it though is that if I do the flea market venture then I would not be available to go to the car shows that are held every weekend around here. Well, maybe I can alternate weekends so I can still go to a few car shows.
But if I DO get into the flea market business and it works well, I’m going to be looking at buying a van to haul the merchandise to the flea market. My wife has been telling me for many years that she has always wanted to buy one of the mini vans that were so popular a few years back. But now that the children are grown, I’m not so sure a minivan would do the trick for me with my needs for a flea market vehicle. I think that with the family situation the way it is now, my wife might be happy with something more like the Toyota Highlander or a Saturn Vue than a mini-van. They both seem like a good family car.
Besides, I don’t consider myself a mini-van type of guy! I’m much more the type of guy that would drive a sports car. I used to own a Mazda RX-7 back in my youth! It was silver and what a chick magnet that was! And it wasn’t too long ago that I had a corvette. Believe it or not I traded that in for my current truck! What can I say, I needed the truck!