garage sale musings

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:

1. 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.
2. Have you ever been to a garage sale that you haven't seen crutches?  Nope, us either.
3. Children's Kool-Aid stands. Who doesn't love a jolt of Kool-Aid at 8:00 am?
4. Do we really want to buy used underwear?
5. 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?
   

While having our own sale:

1. 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?
   
2. Was that lady really carrying a baby GOAT around? Yep, really--you can't make this stuff up.
3. People who ask us if we can 'do better' on a 50 cent item--like 25 cents. Too funny!
   
4. People who ask if they can use our bathroom. Or tell me their child has diarrhea and really needs to go bad.
   
5. 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.
   

All musings aside, Ange and I have really found some amazing things at garage sales. It's been the one constant in our lives since the day we met.