Murphs flea market

Murph's flea market is a sister program to yellow flutterby. Instead of focusing on homemade crafts like the yellowflutteby, Murph's flea market is just like it sounds. here we take bids on items that we picked up here and there.

About Murph

Dennis "Murph" Simpson
Murph was your everyday Blue Collar worker with a education that barely stretched to the 12th grade. He had no worldly or historical knowledge other than what he learned at public school or from years in the Navy.
He was the father of 3 kids,1 boy and 2 girls, and the loving husband of a deathly ill wife. His wife had a disease called Myasthenia Gravis, a disease a lot like Muscular Dystrophy. This not only put a lot of stress on Murph, but also put him in debt. He worked every hour he could get as a mechanic, and did every side job he could find. He still just couldn't make enough to make ends meet. His kids wore clothes that were handed down through many generations, but they never went hungry. Their toys may have been bought from yard sales and Thrift Shops, but they never knew any different. Murph realizing no matter how many hours overtime he got on his job, or how many repairs he made for other people on the side he knew he could never afford his family, his mortage and household bills, his wifes hospital bills and frequent trips to Chapel Hill for her treatments, and then put food on the table as well. Murph felt that he was to good to get food stamps, or any other state benefits other than the ones to help his wife with her bills for her treatments.
One week I came up to him and I was wanting to play football, and my sister wanted to try out for a cheerleader position. He knew he could not afford to pay the start up fees we needed to have to play. So one Friday while we were at school, Murph took a paid vacation day, withdrew $100.00 from his bank account (part of our house payment money) and went to every yard sale, garage sale and thrift shop they had around that day. He bought any thing he thought he could make a profit on. He did this Friday and Saturday, and when Sunday rolled around he packed all of his purchases along with a few of his own possessions including some priceless possessions his father brought him back from Japan.
He left at 5:00a.m. in the morning to be one of the first people there. He stayed there until about 2:30 or 3:00 pm and came home with just about everything sold. He made a profit of $1700.00. After that he was hooked. He realized that by utilizing his charming personality, and his selling ability, he can almost make as much doing that as he does in his regular job. He did this for years in his spare time and supported our family very well. He later got turned on to ebay and was very successful at that as well. Unfortunately he caught a infection from surgery he had in his shoulder, and this caused him to go blind. My sisters and I were old enough totake care of ourselves and our mom had a miraculous recovery (temporarely) from her disease.
With his eyesight gone, he had to retire from his job, and was not able to be a mechanic at all, in fact there was not much at all he could do. So he took up drinking pretty heavy. He was always a nice happy drunk, but you could tell when his eyesight was lost a piece of him died too.
My sisters and I tried to help him still do his flea marketing and ebaying. With his knowledge on antiques and our help we were sure we could keep him occupied and maybe restore his spirits, but it was no use. He was too prideful to let us help. He was always worried he would be a burden on us, or prevent us from living our lives. So he drank non stop for 9 straight years every day all day, except for a 2 week period when we convinced him to go to rehab, but all he learned was that without his eyesight he didn't feel useful and was left without a reason to go on. I think after that we all saw his pain and just did what we could to help make him as comfortable as possible. It is hard to watch someone you love and admire destroy themselves, but we all knew what was coming. He died on July 2 2006 in his sleep. He was 47 years old. I was around him a lot in his final years and I learned a lot from him. I also found out after he passed he had a girlfriend that was helping him get back involved with selling stuff on ebay.
While I am a far cry from having his talent, I am starting this website in his honor to carry on his tradition of selling used goods for a steal of a price. We will sell everything you can imagine. We will also offer a new consignment feature. For more info on this email me at csimpsonsfgc@gmail.com We accept payment by paypal, money orders, or bank checks. A
portion of all proceeds will go to the American Legion which my dad was a proud member and supporter of.
We have links to each category of merchandise.
The categories are:
-Books
-movies
-electronics
-housewares
-furniture
-Computer software and hardware
-tools
-outdoor apparel
-sports equipment
-Clothing
-baby clothing
-Toys
-antiques & collectibles
-Automobile and accessories

Come visit us and spend your $$$