Yard Sale Day
It's Saturday morning. Stephen's heading off to Constable Academy for the Defense Force. He'll be there all day today and tomorrow. I believe it's a 120-hour program so they are certified to carry firearms in public.
Tess has plans to try and watch the Chugiak HS boys play a soccer game at the Anchorage Football Stadium (AFS) today at 10am... if her buddy Melissa can go.
Donald is looking forward to having the house to himself so he can lounge around, eat junk food and blast music.
That leaves the Pooker and I to hit the yard sales....
Yard sale season is just ramping up, now that most of the snow is off the ground. Of course, it's still April, which means mud/slush season. So it's best to tramp through folks' yards wearing mud boots or with a willingness to have cold, wet feet.
After years of research, I've learned to discern a "good" yard sale sign from a "bad" yard sale sign. My favorite sort of yard sale sign is small to medium in size, preferrably scrawled in bold black marker on a scrap of cardboard. (The neon posterboard type is okay because they are easy to see, but some folks get carried away.) It includes specific dates and times and an address and arrow. The address is no more than 2 miles from the sign. No place on the sign is the word "HUGE"... this is a sure indication that the sale giver is overstating things... I love to see the words "Moving Sale". And here in Alaska, even better is "Moving out of AK"... These people are probably selling off EVERYTHING at rock bottom prices just so they don't have to pay to ship it to the lower 48.
The worst sort of sign is one that's been left up since last weekend and leads you on a wild goose chase to a yard sale that is no longer even happening!
posted by Tricia @ 7:07 AM
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Ahhhh yard sales. I haven't been to one in a long time. Instead of having a yard sale I will probably be making a goodwill run here in the next couple of weeks. Spring cleaning and getting rid of stuff and things I just don't use anymore. Simplify :o)
This yard sale foray netted us a few cute clothes for Alicia May and a motorcycle helmet for Tess. We'll be having our own yard sale next weekend and/or the one after to unload some of this stuff we're too lazy to lug to the thrift store!
Hmmmm A used helmet is not the best thing. Hard to know where it has been. If it has been in a accident(hard to tell) or it is scratched at all it has been compromised. I wouldn't trust it. :o/
Ditto on that helmet suggestion. Since they are fairly reasonable new, buying a used one could be a mistake.
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