Hundreds of my daylily scapes are up and ready-to-go. *Most* of the weeding is done. In the meantime, I've been having fun going to garage sales. While treasure hunting, I enjoy checking out the landscaping at people's homes. I like to see what they have planted and how they have it arranged. Garage sales give me permission to do that. Sometimes I see recurrent garage sale themes that I can't help smiling about. So here are my current musings:
While attending sales:
While attending sales:
- I dare you - just try to read some of the yard sale signs while driving. Some are written so small that you have to be driving about 5 mph and be myopically close to actually read the address.
- Have you ever been to a garage sale that you haven't seen crutches? Nope, us either.
- Children's Kool-Aid stands. Who doesn't love a jolt of Kool-Aid at 8:00 am?
- Do we really want to buy used underwear?
- Love the signs that say "You break it, you buy it." Did the sellers forget that they are trying to get rid of stuff they no longer want?
- Is it really necessary to write a check for a $1.00 item? Or how about trying to pay for a $3.00 purchase with a $100.00 bill?
- Was that lady really carrying a baby GOAT around? Yep, really--you can't make this stuff up.
- People who ask us if we can 'do better' on a 50 cent item--like 25 cents. Too funny!
- People who ask if they can use our bathroom. Or tell me their child has diarrhea and really needs to go bad.
- Taking bets on that one item that we have chosen as our "we can't sell this" item. Then trying really hard to sell it. Ange is SO skilled at this - he always wins.
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