If you ever start your own city, keep this website in the back of your mind. GovDeals.com.

I just discovered it and it's quite fun to see all the things you can buy. Police hats, tractors, fire engines, equipment used to put reflective materials on street signs... Thousands of items cities no longer need.

St. Louis, O'Fallon, Kirkwood and Ballwin are just some of the Missouri cities in our area with on-line auctions going on right now. They pay the site 6% of what they make on it, but they save so much money in the long run not having to hold live auctions and store stuff for many months at a time. Now their surplus equipment can be gone within weeks.

And there's lots of stuff on GovDeals.com for you and me. Bikes, Blackberries, cameras and other electronics police confiscate and have to get rid of.

Happy surfing. Happy Bidding.

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