Never open your pack and sell your wares

Similar English and Irish sayings:

When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, sell your cow and buy you corn; but when she comes to the futt bit, sell your corn and buy you sheep When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, sell your cow and buy you corn; but when she comes to the futt bit, sell your corn and buy you sheep
Ill ware is never cheap Ill ware is never cheap
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too

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