I stopped at 48 garage sales yesterday AM. I did it in about two and a half hours. Got there a few minutes before 8 and was headed home at about 10:30. I don't dawdle around at these things. Spent less than twenty bucks, but I got some good stuff really cheap and it cleaned up well. Sometimes things don't clean up as well as I had hoped.
Got off to an unusual start. I found myself behind a full size motor home with Iowa plates. With narrow roads and people parked on both sides, I wouldn't be bringing my motor home to something like this. I managed to get away from him in short order.
Then I experienced another 'garage sale first.' I pulled of the side of the road to investigate a couple sales. I get out of the MINI and I hear this guy givin me heck. He was upset that I parked on his grass at the edge of the road. He had to know that was gonna happen. Some people put up ropes, saw horses or no parking signs. And to top everything, this guy had a garage sale going. Needless to say, that was one sale I skipped.
One little guy found me so interesting that he came within a fraction of a step of walking into the back of a parked SUV watchin me instead of where he was going. Mom must've spotted his predicament out of the corner of her eye and grabbed him. I was too far away to do or say anything to him.
Some people put signs on tables saying that everything on this table is a buck, two bucks, etc. One group drew squares on the asphalt sayin everything in the square is a certain price. They had five or six squares. Wish more people would price their stuff like that. Nothing like waiting in line to see what the price of something is.
Another guy put his stuff in the front yard with an 'Everything Free' sign. Never been to a sale where everything is free.
I picked up five Pyrex custard cups for a buck at another sale. After the lady had my money, she had to tell me the story behind those cups. She said she sold them at last year's sale. The buyer forgot to take them. She said she waited for the buyer to come back, but . . . When I heard that I told her that I thought those cups should be free. But since she had my buck, my opinion meant nothing. So I left saying, "I better get out of here before that lady comes back wanting her stuff." Everybody there got a good laugh.
I've been seeing an older guy (even older than me) driving a '65 Chevy station wagon at the local garage sales. He and his wife were at Merry Lake. He must have recognized me because as I was walking by his car he started talking to me about it. He said it just turned 500,000 miles on the odometer. He's had the engine and transmission overhauled twice. Then he started telling me all the places in the US and Canada he has driven it. He also added that he has never had a factory recall on it . . . I'm thinking that he definitely got his money's worth out of it.
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