His neighbour and sister clubbed together to find £60 to buy a second-hand fridge from a charity store over the summer.
He declares just over 2,000 pesos a month, which he says is a consensus figure among shoe makers, but in fact earns more; recently, he bought a new television and stereo, and a second-hand fridge.Only 149,000 of Cuba's 11m citizens are officially self-employed.
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Among the second hand fur coats, mismatched shoes, VHS videos, vinyl LPs, fridges, cookers, guitars and cuddly toys on display at Glasgow's Paddy's Market, there is now also a coffin, with a "headstone" drawn in red marker pen on a piece of cardboard.
With the £1,000 prize I intend to buy a second hand 400w 12v wind turbine to augment the solar panel to give me enough electricity to make ice in the fridge for gin and tonics, and to ensure the cider and beers are always chilled.
Merce Cunningham, "Second Hand".
Hour, minute and second hands.
