#surplus auctions

[ajsforeclosureleads]

Claiming Your Share: A Comprehensive Guide to Foreclosure Surplus Funds

Foreclosure surplus funds are the remaining monies from a tax foreclosure sale after all liens, mortgages, and obligations on the property are satisfied. Essentially, when a property sells at a tax foreclosure auction for more than the owed amount, the excess funds are not just profit for the investor or the state; they are potentially retrievable by the former homeowner.

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[brandedgarmentswholesalers]

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[seat-safety-switch]

If you ask your crazy uncle, the government is always buying stuff it doesn't need, for way too much money. I don't know about that – the last time I got a paycheque for prison labour, it was real affordable – but I do know that the place to go for gettin' cool stuff is the government surplus auctions.

Think about running a government. You gotta have a lot of stuff. Like, ten or fifteen Jeeps. Probably three hundred thousand coffee makers. A gajillion pens. One of those TVs that shows what number you are in line when you're waiting for your passport. When the government is tired of having all this shit around, they plunk it on Bad-Looking eBay, and then degenerate hustlers buy it in the hope of getting a good deal.

Last week, I regret to inform you, the government made a huge mistake. They let me have a fire truck. Sure, it's not like a "real" fire truck – the military used it up north, so the colours are all wrong, and the siren is bilingual – but it still puts out fires. Which is a huge upgrade from before. Previously, my fire-safety protocol in case one of the half-century-old shitboxes filled with rancid gasoline in my yard finally went kablooey was "move away."

Importantly, it turns out that nobody wanted to buy this worn-out old fire truck. It just sat there, unloved, in a surplus auction in deepest darkest northern Quebec. I wasn't going to bid, and then I thought about how lonely it must be. Its firefighter buddies had ditched it for a younger, sexier model. None of the municipalities wanted an old fire truck, out of fear that it might be unreliable, or expensive to fix. Only new stuff for them. It's safer, they no doubt said. How could I stay my hand from bidding eighteen dollars?

The good news is, even though I ran up a significant gas bill driving it home, I have already made a lot of that money back from charging people to extinguish their houses. Turns out when their place is on fire, they'll pay just about anything, and not really check the credentials of the asshole who drives by to spray it down. Best part is that I don't have to pay for any of the water I take out of the hydrants, so I've been hydrating really well, too. My pee has never been clearer.

So the next time your weird uncle(lette) says that it's time to stop letting the government buy so much shit it doesn't need, set their house on fire. Once they're done negotiating with me, they won't be such big fans of private enterprise, either.

[wellntruly]

If you read the novel Catch-22 (1961), about U.S. Army pilots & sundry stationed on a Greek island during World War II, you will encounter this off-hand description during the period where Yossarian is hiding in the field hospital:

At which you will either pause worryingly, or you’re normal.

I am not normal, because I have watched the television show M*A*S*H (1972-1983), about U.S. Army medical staff in a mobile surgical unit during the Korean War, and which features a character called Hawkeye Pierce, who frequently looks like this:

Now this bathrobe, iconic simply, appears red to the observer. However, deep into the run there is a line in which Hawkeye refers to it as "purple"—great consternation. But film cameras and light waves being what they are (capricious, devilish), it could very well be maroon in life. It could very well be maroon. It’s what I assumed after that comment. But what I'd never asked was, what is it made out of? Is that corduroy, could it be corduroy, could this be—

Oh noooooooo!

Why is Hawkeye the only one who is wearing the robe of patients from the last war, I ask you! Is it for the METAPHOR. To make me YELL. Did the costume department make it for him, or did they just already have one on hand in the WWII storage? Wait it wasn't real was it? Where is it, where is this robe!

Well babe, it’s in the Smithsonian:

A) of all, fucking fantastic, could not be a place I more want Alan Alda’s bathrobe as Hawkeye Pierce to be than the National Museum of American History. B) well well well well well, what do we have here:

[sic]

So looking THAT up brings you nothing that makes any sense, even trying to correct for spelling. But not to fear: historical re-enactors are here.

On the website of the “WW2 US Medical Research Centre,” an absolutely delightful combination of words and spelling brought to you by two European history buffs, and that’s Europeans who are obsessed with history, specifically American medical units in the 1940s, there’s a page for pajamas, and why look who’s here:

OH ho oh HO!

“Progressive Coat & Apron Mfg. Co.” is so similarly bizarre that I would be very willing to bet that something like idk, the imperfect process of digitizing thousands of records for a website catalog, could have absolutely resulted in “Agressive Coat and Manufacturing Company.” Which would mean yeah, yeah yeah: vintage World War II, slash Korea, just five years later. It was authentic, what they gave Alda to wear, along with his dog tags.

Just Hawkeye though still, which is what's odd.

BUT HANG ON.

Heeeeey now!

So I was recently reminded that in the pilot episode, but the pilot episode only, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre also has the regulation corduroy MD/USA bathrobe! In fact, he actually has what would appear to become Hawkeye’s—observe the location of the embroidery. Pocket, like Hawkeye’s in every robe appearance after this first episode, the robe that ends up in the Smithsonian Museum. Whereas the one with the embroidery on the chest that's hanging above Hawkeye's cot here, a common variant that shows up when you’re searching around on military history websites, after this appearance I believe is seen just once more on a visiting colonel later in the first season, then quietly vanishes. Alda ends up in Trapper's, and stays in it for keeps, while Rogers gets, of all things, a cheery goldenrod terry number.

But like, why. Why just Hawkeye in the WWII surplus robe. Both Doyle and Watson have avenues here that I like to think about. For the Doylist side, I suspect it was a decision of like, this is simply too matchy. It’s 1972, our TV screens are small, we gotta take any chance we can get to distinguish these tall white men constantly wearing the same of two monochrome outfits.

In fact, I actually wonder if there was a world where Trapper might have stayed in the maroon and Hawkeye could have ended up in Henry’s robe.

The light blue & white striped bathrobe McLean Stevenson wore as Henry Blake was sold at auction in 2018, and the item description contains the curious detail of it having a handwritten tag inside reading “Hawkeye.” Well heeeyy again.

And here’s another curious detail:

There was a blue & white striped Army-issue robe as well

Now Henry’s is clearly NOT vintage WWII, lacking the pocket embroidery, being terry cloth, and also of course: pastel. But it’s INTERESTING, isn’t it? They had to have been GOING for that look, with that same unusual collar shape and that multi-stripe patterning.

(Also, for real 'what the hell even IS this color' fun, this militaria collectors purveyor has one of the maroon versions too, with photos you can page though and laugh as it flips between looking clearly purple and clearly red in every other photograph. Cameras!!!)

Anyway now we turn to the Watsonian explanation, which seems to run like this: the men at the 4077 were just casually passing their robes around to each other. It's about the intimacy in the face of war, etc. I can see bathrobes going missing when they bug out, getting stolen from the laundry by Klinger and scrapped for parts, being handed off to a poor cold Korean kid who needs it more, and then they need to get to the showers and one of them is like hey, just take mine, and then it’s his now. And eventually most of them end up in warmer-looking civilian robes than the Army holdovers that were being distributed early on, but Hawkeye, he just hung on to Trapper's.

And as a side effect, still looks like he's been injured in World War II.

[emsiecat]

We had a tea tasting session (with biscuits too naturally), and as for the hotel food: it was all scrumptious 😋 The restaurant was all decked out in Good Omens related decor, we had a surprise BBQ on the Friday evening outside in the hotel grounds, and a proper Sunday roast Sunday lunchtime. And sweets and cookies… SO. MANY sweets and cookies dotted around the hotel for us to snack on!

There was an Escape Room that was SO MUCH FUN as well! It was designed to look like Aziraphale's bookshop and had all sorts of tricky puzzles to figure out in order to avert Armageddon. The team I was part of managed it with just a couple of minutes to spare!

And then Sunday evening, after the convention finished, we had a trip to ‘Tadfield’ (Hambleden), where they filmed a lot of Good Omens. There were crepes and card games in the village hall that had been hired out for us. A lovely time had by all there (despite the resident R.P. Tyler doppelganger trying to spoil it by yelling at us for daring to be there 'on the Sabbath' as we were getting back into the buses)! 😁 Then, when we got back to the hotel, there was a birthday cake for us all to share as two of the fans attending had birthdays over the course of the weekend 💕

Oh! I won a prize in the raffle too! Isn’t it cute? Trinkets from Aziraphale’s bookshop from the lovely @mister-a-z-fell

The whole trip was thoroughly amazing, and I am so, SO grateful to Bethany and Rachael for organising and hosting it, to the all the volunteers who helped too of course, and to the lovely fandom I spent such an enjoyable weekend with. All the surplus money raised from the convention and the auction, raffle, and so on is going to Alzheimer's Research UK, which is a fantastic cause and if anyone can afford to donate then please do so! (2/2)

[fatehbaz]

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred Wednesday to several tribes from across the Great Plains [...].

About a half-dozen of the animals from Colorado will form the nucleus of a new herd for the Yuchi people south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said Richard Grounds with the Yuchi Language Project. [...] The herd will be expanded over time, [...] Grounds said. He compared the burly animals’ return to reviving the Yuchi’s language [...].Bison were “the original caretakers” of that land, he said. “We’ve lost that connection to the buffalo, that physical connection, as part of the colonial assault,” Grounds said. [...]

The transfers also included 17 bison to the Northern Arapaho Tribe and 12 to the Eastern Shoshone Tribe — both of Wyoming — and one animal to the Tall Bull Memorial Council, which has members from various tribes, city officials said. [...]

American bison, also known as buffalo, have bounced back from near-extinction in the 1880s but remain absent from most of the grasslands they once occupied.

Across the U.S., 82 tribes now have more than 20,000 bison, and the number of herds on tribal lands have grown in recent years. [...]

The animals transferred to the tribes Wednesday descend from the last remnants of the great herds. They were under care of the Denver Zoo and kept in a city park before being moved to foothills west of Denver in 1914. Surplus animals from the city’s herd were for many years auctioned off, but in recent years city officials began transferring them to tribes instead [...]. To date, 85 bison from Denver have been transferred to tribes and tribal organizations.

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Headline, image, caption, and text by: Matthew Brown and Thomas Peipert, of The Associated Press. “US tribes get bison as they seek to restore bond with animal.” As published at The Seattle Times. 15 March 2023.

[theineffablecon]

📗 A Nice and Accurate Guide to The Ineffable Con 4, a Virtual Convention 📗

When: Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October 2023

Where: Online

Why: Raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK in memory of Sir Terry Pratchett

Since October 2019, you ineffable lot have raised a whopping £25,368.20 for Alzheimer's Research UK and we're hoping to reach £30,000 at TIC 4!

You can get your tickets here, read our FAQs here, and find out more about who'll be there and how to join in below...

Our first special guest is Peter Anderson, who is joining us for the third time - truly...ineffable! Peter is a huge fan favourite and will be talking all things title sequence-in his own words, it delivers surprises with every view, and we'll get taken through it all!

Can we hear a wahoo?!

Colleen Doran, the multi-award-winning illustrator and creator of "Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel", which has set Kickstarter alight and smashed through several records, will also be joining us!

Rory Kurtz, the illustrator and artist responsible for the official artwork for season 2 of Good Omens is also going to be there!

Rory describes his work best on his website: Individualistic yet share a sense of fantasy in a modern reality. We agree - absolutely ineffable!

How can you get involved?

Panel - submit ASAP (we're particularly looking for pre-recorded sessions and people awake in the BST morning period!)

Zine - submit by 15th September

Vid show - submit by 20th September

Cosplay competition - submit by 2nd October

Booths are free at TIC 4 and are available to anyone wanting to showcase or sell their fanart, merchandise or fan projects. We also need at-con volunteers and please get in touch if you can help with auction items or prizes, as this helps us to have more surplus to donate to Alzheimer's Research UK!

We've reached the end of our Nice and Accurate Guide to The Ineffable Con 4, a Virtual Convention, so, if you're ready to get your ticket...

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Aston Martin Lagonda 2-Door Coupé, 1988. To be offered at auction, DP 2034/1, the first Aston Martin Virage prototype which was disguised as a 2-door Lagonda in order to keep the styling of the Virage secret. After the Virage/Lagonda "mule" became surplus to requirements, Works Service completely rebuilt, fully finished, painted and trimmed the car and sold it to a UK collector. It is to be auctioned at Bonham's Goodwood Revival auction in September

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[sovietpostcards]

Could you recommend how to find surplus authentic Soviet era propaganda posters?

Posters are quite rare in general and are mostly sold through auction houses. You can try searching avito and similar websites with classifieds. If you're in Moscow, there's a guy at the Izmailovsky flea market who has a kiosk full of posters (he says it's his father's collection). That's the most posters I've ever seen in one place, but they're still very expensive.

[scavengedluxury]

Yesterday I went into one of those shops that sell food that’s passed the expiry date and it was such a strange experience. 90% of the stock was junk food: crisps, sweets, biscuits, energy drinks. It felt like the school tuck shop at the end of the world. Nothing you could make a meal with and the prices weren’t even cheap. I also noticed a lot of the stock appeared to be from American candy stores. So is this their surplus stock being sold off, or is it from a police auction of the assets of the American candy stores that were shut down for money laundering? Either way, a strange and off-putting retail experience.

[beware-the-metacrane]

Back when I taught in the classroom, I was responsible for our district's StarLab. I feel like most people of a certain age had core memories formed in one of these babies, and getting to continue that tradition by shuttling 15-20 kids at a time into a giant dome to stare at projections of the constellations was one of the best parts of working at that district. Generic picture for reference.

Anyway, I left the district a few years ago and sadly had to leave my dome buddy forever. Or so I thought. This district does a yearly surplus auction, and I guess that since I left, nobody had really been taking care of the dome? It was listed for auction with "minor damages", and therefore was criminally cheap. We're talking a piece of equipment that nowadays, brand new, would cost over 40k USD to replace.

Suffice to say, I now own a StarLab. Now to find somewhere big enough to us it, since this is what happens when I try to inflate it in my garage:

I'm already looking at ways to integrate it into my summer camp programming :)

[thinkingimages]

The project [that premiered at the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as it’s Kept] has been a long-term investigation, a very physical, haptic process of sifting through 64,000 coins that I bought at an MTA transit auction. The lot of coins was referred to by the agency as ‘slugs,’ which are counterfeit currencies that are used to trick coin-operated devices. However this surplus I received contained a variety of coin-like objects ranging from arcade and casino tokens, to restroom and car wash tokens, as well as religious keepsakes, pendants and batteries. All these items had been used by NYC commuters as bus fare payment from 2017 to 2019. I sat with this collection for two years after purchasing it until I came to understand the random patterns that formed the internal logic. Each coin traces a possible history; it could be a remnant from a major experience or a forgotten occurrence. I’ve identified five categories: Faith, Place, Chance, Imitation, and Blank. Every coin can fit into one of these categories. I am interested in the tokens’ ripple effect, speculating as to the amount of time an individual held onto the ‘slug’ and the multiple spaces the person passed through with this object. 

[feminist-space]

"We are fundraising to purchase 288,000 3M 9501+ KN95 masks from government surplus!

Our goal is $9,000 to win the auction and pay for transportation of the masks from VA to mask blocs across the country.

These include mask blocs in DC, Northern Southern and Central Virginia, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Champaign Urbana, New York City, Kansas City, Tulsa, Knoxville, Long Island and more.

Currently, a pallet of 12,000 KN95 masks is 200 dollars each. We are aiming to buy as many pallets as possible and deliver them to whoever wants them! If you want to support but can't contribute, consider sharing this to your socials.

#MaskBloc #MaskDistribution ⁠fundraising #COVIDIsntOver #MutualAid"

"We’ve made contact with the seller, and they’ve agreed to sell them directly at $200/palette!

By buying directly instead of through the auction, we will definitely be getting these masks. The only question is how many.

The more money we raise, the more palettes we can buy, and the more transportation we can pay for to get these masks to communities across the country!

ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!!! LETS GOOO!!!! Thank you all for your support, sharing and contributions. Speaking on behalf of all of the organizers, we are so stoked that this campaign is going well and about how many masks we are going to be able to get. Thank you!!!

Alt text: Flyer with periwinkle and orange color scheme. Text at the top says “Mask Fundraiser. Joint mask bloc effort (14+ blocs). Bulk discount on high-quality KN95s at surplus sale. Every dollar makes a dent. Asterisks. $4=240 masks. $200=12,000 masks. Goal: 280,000 masks.”

Underneath is an image of a large metal shipping container with 10 big visible cardboard boxes. Next to that is an illustration of a hand holding a white respirator with ear-loop straps that shows the text “kn95 gb2626-2019.”

Text at the bottom of the flyer says “donate: tinyurl.com/bulk-kn95s. Going to mask blocs in: DC, Northern/Southern/Central Virginia, New Orleans, St. Louis, Champaign Urbana, Chicago, New York City, Kansas City, Tulsa, Knoxville, Long Island, Cincinnati, San Jose & more. To be distributed for free to all of our communities.” Asterisks mentioned at top of flyer are resolved here, with an asterisk next to text that says “Portion of money also going toward transport and associated costs.""

[edwordsmyth]

"Good morning Gaza, get up, drink my coffee, and rise. Our funeral has arrived.

Good morning Gaza, get up and recite the verse of return to a land we have carried like a tattoo on the hand.

Good morning, you stranger to your house. Not all God’s earth is Rome even if your flesh is a window-shop for the masters of words. Your flesh, is it Christ’s brittle bread?

Good morning, you offering on the altar of the Mediterranean basin, cut your path short. You’re a prayer rug for idolators, a cave of ancient civilizations, a tent for bedouin rulers, you’re the armor of the poor and the alms of millionaires. They auction you as surplus to the market’s demands. And you are the dream of Palestinians on the streets, a river of bodies in one.

Good morning Gaza. Get up. Gather your one arm. The one you have left. Good morning Palestinian flesh on the tables of ministers and presidents. You’re a stone of solidarity and balance among your executioners. Not even your language protects you, so take a short cut. Your flesh legitimates the police and the saint, they swap names, take turns, merge, bond, and sometimes split into two kingdoms that war over you, but when you rise, they reunite over your flesh.

You’re the geography of chaos, the history of this East, so take a short cut. You’re a field of experiments for both heavy industry and light. An encyclopedia of gunpowder, from the age of the catapult to the rage of missiles that were manufactured in the West. Palestinian flesh, in tribal nations and suited states that disagree over the price of potatoes, leather shoes, beets, crude oil, but agree on expelling you from your blood,

gather in one arm, gather as one, and write the verse of return." -Mahmoud Darwish