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So, this story requires a bit of back story. My mom had to have her leg amputated several years before we lost her in 2012 and she had an artifial leg custom made for her. And she basically hated it. Now not everyone may find this funny, but if you knew my mom you would agree with us and get a giggle!!
My DNiece and her BFF are having a yard sale today with the huge pile of stuff that my Dsis has been collecting for them in her shop. They got up early at 7AM this morning and started setting up, and DNiece went on to work at 10AM, leaving BFF with instructions that everything on the two pallets was to go. DSis got a call from DNiece and she said that BFF had sold Mom's leg for $10 bucks.
DSis has been planning for the last two years to get it to an orthopedist that collects those until they have a truckload to ship overseas, but never got around to it. She had forgotten totally about it until moving and had leaned the leg up against the yardsale pile and promptly forgot it.
We think it's absolutely hilarious that someone bought it, and we're sure Mom would have thought it was pretty funny, too. She never did like wearing that thing!
And what on earth is someone going to do with an artificial leg custom made for someone else? Some sort of modern art project? A science fair robotics project? A Rube Goldberg contraption? A lamp? A planter? We are wishing BFF had asked why he wanted it, lol. Now we'll always wonder.
I've gotten some cool stuff when going to garage/yard sales and my DSis is the Queen of Garage Sales!! If she wanted/needed something, she could ALWAYS find it at a garage sale. But an artifical leg was never something either of us went looking for!!
So what do you all think....what could you do with an artifical leg??
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I saw your title and immediately wondered, "Was it named Smith?"
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Mary Poppins - "what was the name of his other leg?"
I too think that's funny someone bought it. They could do anything I suppose - maybe even make a lamp like from the Christmas Story. Last year at Walgreens, they had small leg lamps for sale and Lenny said people were even buying them.
That would completely freak me out!!!!
I have said that my mom is haunting me (in a good way) but that would be too weird!
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Artificial legs are expensive. Maybe it was someone with a family member who can't afford a leg, but needs one. You might be able to pad it to adjust it to someone.
Me, I'd set it in my living room and just wait for someone to ask about it.
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My grandma had an artificial leg and also hated it. When she passed away we wondered what to do with the leg when picking her things up from the nursing home. Dad propped it up in the corner and left.
Artificial legs are expensive. Maybe it was someone with a family member who can't afford a leg, but needs one. You might be able to pad it to adjust it to someone.
Me, I'd set it in my living room and just wait for someone to ask about it.
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My grandma had an artificial leg and also hated it. When she passed away we wondered what to do with the leg when picking her things up from the nursing home. Dad propped it up in the corner and left.
I think it's hilarious that someone bought it.
You are not kidding about how expensive they are!! And hers was a very low tech version compared to some that are being built today.
My sister kept meaning to take it over to the doctor who built it for Mom. They collect all these kind of items and they are shipped overseas to groups who adjust them to fit other people who couldn't otherwise get one at all. I would guess that there are groups here in the States that do the same thing, I'm just not sure who they are.
I just keep trying to think of things that could be done with an artifical leg. The Christmas Story lamp is the only thing I've really come up with .... just the nursing home version.
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