Yard-Saleing

When first invited to go “yard-saleing” I was quiet excited as I’d heard so much about this American tradition. You see this is some sort of cultural adventure, you spend a couple of days noticing the Yard Sale signs around town and writing down the addresses, then you pile the family in the car (grand mother in curlers included) and start your trek. You hit up as many sales as you can on the way in the hope of finding those once in a life-time hidden treasures.

So now of course I’m thinking Clean House – heaps of cool stuff still in boxes, bought but never used. I’m hoping to find some really nice household things that are really useful for bargain prices. The truth and the trick is that you really have to search through piles of broken and unwanted nothings to find your treasure. My first thought is, “Did you seriously think that someone would want to buy this?” We saw everything from old shoes to mouldy clothes and rusty cake tins. Don’t forget the jewelry that looked like it was made by a three year old at craft school.

Finds of the day:
Beautiful diamond (Cubic’s) rings for $25
An electric wheelchair for $1200

After thinking that it might be fun to get the family back home traditional Christmas presents in the form of amazing yard sale finds I came to my senses and realized that one man’s rubbish is simply one man’s rubbish.

Some good laughs were had and we left with a day/night pill box - $0.25 (bargained down from $0.50) and two Christmas cutting boards (really cute actually) - $0.75