In article >, Margaret Suran
> wrote:

> So, What happened the first day of the garage sale? Did The Widow
> Dorothy sell a lot of her offerings? Did you bring some of your own
> unwanted stuff and sell it along with hers?
>
> There are no garage sales in my neighborhood. (

The first day (Friday) was not very profitable, I think. I didn't sell
much of my garage sale junk. Some paperbacks, not many clothes. If I
were organized, I'd be dangerous. :-) Dorothy is going to open her
garage today, I think. <sigh> When I clear my stuff out tomorrow, the
unsold is going into a donation box for one of the myriad charitable
organizations that are happy to pick it up and sell it to someone else,
or into the trash can. Rob's been grumbling about my junk. Justifiably.

TWD is a piece of work. A lot of what she's trying to sell for a
quarter should be either free, tossed, or recycled. And she'll haggle
over a quarter. She's been trying to sell some of the same crap for
two-three years. She won't throw it away. She has clothes she hasn't
worn in 40 years. Marilyn sold a bunch of stuff -- inexpensively priced
decent furniture. Joyce's daughter is a young stylin' chick who wears
things for one season only, it seems -- a lot of her stuff sells.

There's been a recent large influx of Hispanic folks to our area and a
lot of them shop at garage sales for good bargains. I love to see their
faces light up when I greet them in Spanish. They seem equally pleased.
:-) One group bought much of Marilyn's furniture and they were debating
how to get it to the buyer's apartment. They returned with an old
station wagon-type vehicle and loaded the couch on the top of the
vehicle, secured with a tie approximately twice the diameter of
butcher's twin (OB Food reference). That's all they were going to
use!! I keep a container of bungee cords in my car (you just never know
when you're going to need one!) and insisted that they use them! As
they'd had it, the first turn of a corner would have sent the sofa
askew. ?Ay, caramba! They returned a while later to collect the desk
and return the bungees. Seemed grateful to have had their use. :-)

I've just learned that there are some Mexican folks moving in a couple
doors down. I'm eager to meet them -- perhaps I can trade some English
help for some cooking lessons. :-)

Blahblahblah. I'm off soon to the supermarket to pick up some ground
beef for holubky -- I bought a nice cabbage at the farmers market
yesterday and the weather is suitable for holubky-making. :-) I may
add a layer of kraut to this batch.
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