Thread: Unbelievable craigs list gift pictures!

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OK-finally, pictures! So I am reposting the original content from the original post, so I didnt have to type it again.....

Hello all! Well, I just received the most AMAZING email, and I had to share it with you all! Some of you may have read my thread from about weeks ago called "Major Craigs List Purchase." For those of you who are not familiar with it, I will give you a brief history. I had been searching the local Craigs List ads, as well as the ads in my parents area for Halloween deals. There was a post that said $2,500 worth of Halloween decor for sale...about 45 minutes from where my parents live. So i emailed the girl, and she was very nice, and sent me pics of what she had for sale. FABULOUS items! A large home made coffin lined in foam, Gravely the Butler, the Count, Mr. Shivers, Harry the Zombie, wood pillars, a guillatine, haunted organ, flying bats, smoking cauldron, life sized Frankenstein with "electricity" table, mad scientist lab, pirate decor, ,6 foot executioner, tons of fright catalog items, toxic waste dummy in can, hanging reapers, spirit foam coffin with chain link, tombstones, large latex creature, Crawling grave reaper from Spirit, pirate chests, caged skeletons, hanging heads, kitchen decor, tons of rats, spiders, vulture, two headed dog, body parts, coffin with corpsed skeleton that lights up, foggers, and the list goes on and on. She lives in a very rural area, with no Spirit store at Halloween, so many of her items came from Fright Catalog, and were in their original boxes! So I told her I was mainly interested in the life size props and what did she want to sell them for? She wrote back that he husband recently passed away, and she didnt want to piece it all out, she just wanted to sell it as a lot, and that she had about $8,000 worth of decor that had purchased over the years, as well as home made items. I told her I understood about wanting it to all go at once, but at this point really just needed life size and larger decor, and if she changed her mind to let us know and we would be happy to make the drive (2 hrs) and buy some of her things. A few days later, I got an email saying that she had someone interested in her smaller items, so if we wanted to look at the larger props, that would be great! So we rented a uhal and drove the 2 hours and filled up my H2 and the uhal with amazing props! We bought the Count, Mr. Shivers, Harry the Zombie, the wood and foam coffin, corpsed skeleton in coffin that lights up (life size), latex creature,two wooden pillars with busts, tombstones, pirate chest, tiki torches, severed heads, caged skeletons, candleabra, hanging reapers, Frankenstein lab and mad scientist lab items....the list goes on! There are pics with my first thread you can see I cannot stress the high quality of her decor! Everything was labeled and in tubs!!! So, we paid $700. and we got a great deal! The homemade props are top quality, and all the other ones are in immaculate condition. She treats her props just like me!! So a few days later I emailed her and told her thanks for all the items and that if after the other people who were interested in her items came, and there was anything left, that we might be interested in a few more items. So she wrote back about two weeks later and said those people were a no show, and that if I wanted the rest of it all that she would give me a great deal! So I wrote back, what would she like for it all?? She wrote back and said hows $1000.00? Truth be told, that was a great deal bc she had TONS of stuff left...and I mean tons of tubs, the gilliatine, gravely the butler, two life size ghouls, the toxic waste dummy, haunted organ, light up coffin, fogger, hanging skeleton bats, stuffed dummies, more severed heads, candelabra, sooo much stuff! As much as I wanted it all, we had spent $700.00 on her stuff, and $150. at an auction a few weeks ago, and the stores haven't even put their stuff out yet...so at this point (and we are also doing some major home remodeling...new kitchen, yeah!) I didn't have that much, but that that we discussed it and she had a few more items we would like to buy from her. Gravely the Butler for one...the smoking cauldron, the other two wooden Pillars, Spirit ball, any other scientist lab items, fogger and a few other things, how much did she want for these items, as we would be happy to pay her a good amount for them! A few weeks went by, and I hadn't heard anything, and I didn't want to bother her because she was dealing with her husbands estate. So, this is the email I just received! Are you ready for this?

"Melissa - been thinking about all this stuff we have...if you want it, I'll give it ALL to you for free. At this point I just want to get rid of it and I know it would be going to a good home with you. Let me know what you think! "
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Obviously I was sooo excited and so grateful....I just was speechless! What an amazing gift to be given!!! I emailed her back, thanked her a zillion times, and arrange a time for pick up....
So, I went to pick it up a few weeks ago and here it all is! I was going to post the pics in the thread, but there are way too many to post!
There are a ton of skeleton heads, rats, bats, party supplies that I did not take pics of because it would have taken me forever...but this will give you the idea!

The pictures are in my Albums entitled Craigs List Gift.
If you want to see what I purchased from her the first time, it is in the Album Major Craigs List Score Summer 2010.
Enjoy the pics, and let me know what you think! It really shows how there are good people in this world!

What a SCORE!!!

OMG!!!!!!Unbelievable.

Dayumm! that is one fabu lot, congrats!

Amazing gift!

Wow! I keep hearing about people getting stuff for free or amazing deals... Why don't I ever get luck like that? Instead I get flooding in my basement two years in a row and have to throw out nearly all my Halloween stuff (a few years ago) and start over from scratch! Blah.

Thanks guys, for the kind remarks! Its so much stuff, I am actually having a bit of anxiety trying to figure out how, when, and where all the stuff is going to go. We will also need to build a shed to store it in because this is just half of what we got from her, there are pics of the first haul we bought in my album. PLus we bought stuff from an auction this year....and I have just as much stuff from our own collection in our attic....maybe more....so a shed is the way to go!

I. Am. SO. Jealous.

Amazing props, and even more amazing story. Her loss is so sad, but at least she knows everything went to someone who appreciates it as much as she and her husband did. So sad to lose a true haunter. I am so happy for your great haul!

OO wow now that is a score !!!!!!!!congrads you got great stuff use it wisely lol