Sentences with phrase «swap meets»

Here's a silly question... are flea markets the same as swap meets?

At swap meets, you just pay to enter so everyone can participate in buying and selling.

Thanks for your answer on swap meets / fleas.

That led us to antique stores in San Diego and looking at several flea markets / swap meets.

I volunteered for MROs and went to swap meets before I started law school.

Some of the events we regularly participate in include the OCNY HOG Poker Run; Woodstock Harley Davidson events, from car and bike shows to open houses; Motorcyclepedia Swap Meets; and more.

Having grown up going to swap meets in Northern California, she and her brother immediately suggested a flea market.

The movies, events, swap meets, art displays, performances and general good times wind up its eighth successful year in Portland, Oregon on 11 - 13 December.Whilst some of the program remains the same in all cities, plenty of local content is also assured so click those links above for more details.

From gardening, to carpooling and bicycling, to swap meets and barter, to mending clothes and appliances instead of throwing them out and buying new, people are rediscovering traditional values of frugality and community.

Over the past two years, Mexico City - based Antonio Vega Macotela and his father, Antonio Vega Silva, a social researcher, have been assembling, researching and archiving broken and abandoned tools found in flea markets and swap meets.

But something that is likely to entice him out are the swap meets, a curious Los Angeles phenomenon in which drive - in movies are converted by day into portable flea - markets where highly mongrelized junk is bartered.

«Beginning in 1970, Betye Saar began frequenting swap meets and flea markets in search of racist «black collectibles,» which she integrated into her assemblage works.

There has also been a trend to target another sales outlet for puppy millers and other criminal and irresponsible breeders and distributors: the sale of animals along roadsides, parks or at flea markets or swap meets.

They are exploited by the pet trade just like dogs and cats in mills. These breeders count on and profit from impulse buys at pet stores or along roadsides or at flea markets or swap meets.

Pima County, 6.04.170 and Tuscon, Sec. 4 - 8, have their own laws forbidding the sale or transfer of ownership of animals on public property and which also specifically ban such transactons at swap meets and flea markets.

What's more, dogs and cats will no longer be allowed to be sold at flea markets or swap meets in Kankakee.

Puppy mill puppies, often as young as eight weeks of age, are sold to pet shops or directly to the public over the Internet, through newspaper ads and at swap meets and flea markets.

And the already «substandard breeders» that sell through the black market (i.e. online pet sales, swap meets, Craigslist) will continue to flourish, causing even more of a problem.

â $ «Forced spay - neuter laws generally exempt commercial breeders (a / k / a â $ œpuppy millsâ $ and WILL NOT affect clueless, careless and greedy under - the - radar quick - buck breeders who sell for through flyers, the Internet or at swap meets or even in supermarket parking lots.

Puppy mills are mass production facilities that crank out an estimated 4 - 5 million dogs annually that are sold in pet stores, over the Internet, at swap meets and direct to the public.

Craigslist.org is one the most popular online classified websites which does what newspaper classifieds, swap meets, flea markets and garage sales used to do.

It includes up - to - date information on waste reclamation, aka dumpster diving; minimizing your own trash through swap meets; green living; and environmentally friendly transportation like bike collectives and ride - sharing.

Before opening a brick - and - mortar retail location in 2014, Derek Dobson, owner and managing partner of Dale's Super Store, traveled to swap meets up and down the East Coast and into the Midwest to sell aftermarket performance truck parts and accessories.

«We were crisscrossing the country in our truck and trailer, hitting any event we could — auto crosses, club events, swap meets.

Immigrating to Southern California as a teenager, he soon realized that local swap meets offered little in the way of automotive parts, so he went to work filling the gap.

Others find an excuse to get together near swap meets, so they can forage for old parts.

The spry septuagenarian has dragged his wife, Dorothy, all over the country to collect old trucks, cars, and parts, and he's scoured swap meets coast to coast for decades.

I've been to a few swap meets with Biker Fox.

For the setting of the mid to late 1980s, we should be thinking pro-wrestling, swap meets and monster truck rallies... actually not much different from today.

My interests include: Hiking, camping, fishing, cooking, music, adventures, swap meets, collecting records, collecting rocks, making art.

I really enjoy swap meets, fairs, car...

I enjoy intelligent conversations, comedy, movies, concerts, the beach, swap meets, antiques, history, checking out new places, etc....

the times that I have taken dates to car swap meets, women say that, they had never seen that many men in one place, in their lives.....

I may try Hunter's suggestion of car swap meets and car shows.

The «problem» with the men at the car shows and swap meets is that they're far more interested in the cars then in the crowd.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Organisms as different as plants, bacteria, yeast and humans could hold genetic swap meets and come away with fully functional genes, new research suggests.

Many of these events also act as expos or swap meets, some even have swag or prizes for participants!

You're not going to go walking into a consignment store and being overwhelmed with what's available, and you are not having to drive around to yard sales or even go to the swap meets.

Swap meets are sweet.

Cue bargin bin shopping, yard sales, swap meets, and stalking hospital wards for next Titi.

Two or three times throughout the year my wife and I take some garbage bags and «trash pickers» (long - handled «grabbers» that can be purchased for ten to twenty dollars at swap meets or Wal - Mart) and pick up trash in the street and on the sidewalks in the neighborhood.

For the next two years, they traveled around the country, sometimes for months at a time, hitting car shows, swap meets, trade events, rallies, and anything else they could think of to get the Gas Monkey name out there.

Small businesses now have the power to make a sale anywhere by simply plugging a credit card swiper into their smartphone and charging their customer at the point of sale — whether it's at a brick and mortar location, a swap meet, or in the middle of a festival.

Swap meet dealers in vans also patrol the homeless during the holidays, offering to pay cash for new items.

For example, here new coats and blankets at Christmas rarely get used by the people who receive them, but are sold to swap meet dealers.

Invite other parents to a baby equipment swap meet.

Thursday, April 25, 2013: Reuse / Recycle Day - Let's have an old fashioned Swap Meet!

I think I mentioned that I just got rid of a bunch of books and sometimes kids will destroy books but ones that are in good shape you will pay you know 5 to 10 $ brand new and often you'll go to like The Parent Connection Swap Meet and you'll find them for 50cents.

This viral swap meet, called reassortment, can increase transmissibility and virulence.

My parents used to own a store at the swap meet and my favorite memory would be scarfing down pizza during a busy work day helping my parents at the shop and then later at night going to eat galbi at our favorite restaurant!