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I love eBay. I've been buying and selling on eBay for almost a decade. As of today, I've accumulated 100% positive feedback throughout 271 total transactions. If you know eBay and the US Postal Service, this is no minor feat! People can be strange, and packages can get lost in the great abyss. Somehow, the eBay gods have smiled upon me, as I've had good luck throughout the past decade.

Back in college, I bought a vintage Nike warmup jacket for $2 at a tiny thrift store and ended up making almost $30 more than what I'd paid. So exciting! In college terms, $30 buys you a lot of Ramen noodles (or $1 tap beers at the Press Box). I've also found lots of neat old finds. I went through a vintage t-shirt phase, and these past few years have used eBay to buy old ledgers and French dictionaries and jewelry findings. Last year, I won a whole lot of heart-shaped metal dog license tags from Mobridge, South Dakota. There must have been around 50 of them, and they were in great shape since they'd never been issued. I melted solder on them and dipped them in patina, and they were a hit at a trunk show last year.

Over the past few years, I've been doing searches every few months for neat vintage finds from my home town, either looking for things from Wagner, SD (where I was born) or Sioux Falls, SD (where lived from age 3+).

I won this little gem this week- an old medicine bottle from Moe Hospital in Sioux Falls, So.Dak. Apparently the hospital was located at 14th and Main and existed prior to my dad's employer, Sioux Valley Hospital (now Sanford Hospital), sometime in the early 1900's.