This stuff is getting expensive.

[PeterT]

Who does. I couldn't agree more. Now throw in Gettysburg Frame shop and you can begin to feel my pain.

Mmmmm ... I need to be careful of excess baggage back home. I'll bring less clothes!

 

[FarawayFriend]

Mmmmm ... I need to be careful of excess baggage back home. I'll bring less clothes!

Hahaa, I will take advantage of my Lufthansa user status and the Miles & More program. I have 2 x 32 kilograms baggage allowance, whoopee!! I cannot carry two bags with 32 kg each, though ... bringing not much clothing is a good option, but as we will indulge in outlet shopping and buy Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Levis Jeans for about one fifth of the price we would pay here, at least one bag will be filled with those. And then all the books ...
Btw, speaking of Steinwehr Avenue ... this coming weekend I will spend time in Blankenburg, where Gen. Steinwehr was born. I hope to find a plaque that marks the house and will post that then.

 

[BlueGrayBlood]

I remember one time in one of the shops I was looking at Springfield it was very high-priced I turned to the owner and said what you think he smiled and said Gettysburg.

Thanks for bringing this thread back
enjoying the photos and comments
BGB

 

[BlueGrayBlood]

Hahaa, I will take advantage of my Lufthansa user status and the Miles & More program. I have 2 x 32 kilograms baggage allowance, whoopee!! I cannot carry two bags with 32 kg each, though ... bringing not much clothing is a good option, but as we will indulge in outlet shopping and buy Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Levis Jeans for about one fifth of the price we would pay here, at least one bag will be filled with those. And then all the books ...
Btw, speaking of Steinwehr Avenue ... this coming weekend I will spend time in Blankenburg, where Gen. Steinwehr was born. I hope to find a plaque that marks the house and will post that then.

Think about shipping your outlet bargains back to Germany.
You have plenty of time to find G'burg UPS and find shipping details online ahead of time.
Just thinking out LOUD .

 

[FarawayFriend]

Thank you so much, but if I'd ship them our customs would want me to have it declared and there would be a lot of paperwork and robably import tax. I had to do that before. But basically a very good idea! I'll keep it in mind.

 

[Northern Light]

I learned my lesson about online bidding for prints when I started bidding on a Dale Gallion print titled "Sound the Charge" featuring Nathan Bedford Forrest. All of the other bidders started dropping away fairly quickly except one who kept upping my bids by $1.00 every time that I bid. I finely got exasperated enough to up the bid by $100.00 (which placed the bidding over the market value of the print). The other bidder dropped out and the print was mine. I was very pleased until I received the print and found out that the other bidder was my wife who wanted to get me the print as a surprise-which I certainly was on a number of points. "A fool and his money are soon parted".

That is so cute! What a nice thing to do for you!

 

[BlueGrayBlood]

Thank you so much, but if I'd ship them our customs would want me to have it declared and there would be a lot of paperwork and robably import tax. I had to do that before. But basically a very good idea! I'll keep it in mind.

Oh the import / export paper work and excise tax or VAT
Tell them that it is restraint of trade

 

[FarawayFriend]

Oh the import / export paper work and excise tax or VAT
Tell them that it is restraint of trade

Yes I would, but to do this I would have to leave from work (they are open only until 4 pm), drive 30 minutes to their office, spend about one to two hours waiting there in line until I may enter the office, explain why I had to send the stuff, wait again in the waiting area, then sign all these forms, then wait at the cashier's office, pay, drive back to work and of course I'd have to make good for 4 or 5 hours missed at work. I did that both privately and officially for the library, when we get books from India or the Arab states. We seem to have a new customs officer who thinks he must earn his salary the hard way ... he never lets anybody just take it easy.
No, it is better, I'll buy only as much as I can carry myself. But as I said, a very good idea! Basically.