Building Materials Auction

Ok, so I am still trying to catch up the blog a bit for my own personal records. On October 8th Jason, Xander, Jason's dad, and I went to a building materials auction at the Greene County Fairgrounds. They have these auctions all over Ohio. Jason and his dad have gone to several before. They have all sorts of stuff from tools to larger things like flooring/siding/doors etc. Jason said I needed to come to one because he was not going to make any large finishing purchases without me (good man). So, here is how it works. You go before the auction starts and look around the huge building. Jason's advice to me when we walked in the door, "If you see something you like do not get all loud and excited. Play it cool." (Please me loud and excited...really). Anyways, when the bidding starts the auctioner actually moves around the whole building and stands in front the item being auctioned and everyone interested just crowds around. If there are two similiar items, lets say trim, then the highest bidder can say how much they want of it and then the second highest bidder can say if they want any at same price if there is some left. Needless to say this process can take all day. So Xander and I came and then went to Jason's parent's house for awhile and then came back. Jason was there from 2:00-9:45.

Well, they had some great kitchen cabinets. When the bidding started I hid behind the cabinets and looked threw a small opening to give Jason signals on when to bid higher. We ended up getting the cabinets! They are cream and have a glaze that shows darker brown in the edges. We got a killer deal!

If that was not successful enough we also won the front door we were bidding on. Well, actually we thought we lost because someone else won the bid (100 more then Jason and Jason was stopping), but there were two doors (the other one was wood too but ugly) and the guy wanted the ugly door. Yeah!!! The bad thing was Jason and the other guy were just bidding each other up. Another killer deal!

We also got: wide baseboard trim for the downstairs, window trim for downstairs, and two rolls of house wrap.

To get home from the auction with our loot it took: Jason's truck, Jason's dad's truck with a trailer, my dad's Sprinter van, and a small portion of Jason's mom's mini-van.

While they were loading up the vehicles, Xander needed his diaper changed, so I just changed it there by the loading dock door and in the middle of changing him, he peed all over me. Other people there got a good laugh. Fun times!