Like Going to Garage Sales in Springfield

This past Saturday's excursion to yard sales was much better than last week.  It's the time of year when whole neighborhoods put on community yard sales and I didn't have to go too far from home to find one. Once again my time was limited by my work schedule but that may have worked in my favor. Forcing me to get up and out early before all the good stuff was gone.

The first couple stops I made didn't produce any treasure. It's almost always a dud when you can see a lot of Little Tykes stuff from the road. My perseverance paid off though on my third stop. Some poor bastard was getting rid of a lot of Simpson's memorabilia. When the woman running the sale saw me pawing through all the good stuff, she told me that all prices were negotiable. I said that from the look of it, someone in the household was a fan. She told me her husband was but he was growing out of it. Since he wasn't there to confirm that, I assumed that there was some sort of ultimatum, "Either the Simpson's go, or I do".


His loss was my gain. I picked up a beer tray, 6 shot glasses and a hat all for $10. There was a lot more stuff I could have bought if I wasn't concerned with with the possibility of my own ultimatum. The next stop I scored 3 CDs for $5. Two were U2, which I got for Kathy because to my surprise, she's a fan. I'm sure she's quite happy with the Greatest Hits I got her last year, but I'm always trying to expand her musical horizons with the deep cuts. The last purchase I made was a sealed  copy of Don Mclean's first album (LP) for a buck.  My sister Carol had it when we were kids and I remember liking it a lot.

Not a bad haul for under $20 but I've yet to find the elusive car top carrier that I need for toting the kayaks. Who knows, maybe next week will be my lucky one.