If you been around, you may I have seen this pic of the standard junk drawer in ye olde homestead. This was my day in a way. Its like this see...
Due to being stuck at the homestead and not being able to go up to the Farm, I had to find something to do or go nutz at the house. So I volunteered to go with gammie, better 1/2, and the t-k to some rummage/estaste sales. Silly I know, but well, why not.
So then, I joined the throng of wandering sheeple(who are stuck at home and not making the big trek on the North Road). It is, after all, a Great American Pastime. Oh they may do this in other parts of the planet, I really don't know, but here, here it is an art form in itself.
I drove, slowly cruising the streets, looking for homemade signs indicating a veritable treasure trove is waiting in the drive, all clothes half off!, etc. Better 1/2 directed from the back, carefully choosing each location we would stop at. After all, we would not stop at each location, there are some that, even from the road at slow cruising speed, she could tell were not going to have anything she would be interested in looking at. I guess.. I was just the driver of the SheepleJeep.
The only thing that caught my attention was the kids selling lemonade while their mom sold old clothes and assorted and sundry.. items. I noticed they were watching the toy table rather closely. I am sure some items that were there the kids hoped would not sell. But it was the lemonade stand that got me thinking.
I remember we had a huge garage sale at my house when I was a wee lad. My two aunts brought over pickup loads of stuff and it was huge. I lived on a rather busy street and had the bright idea of selling lemonade. My brother and I sold a lot of lemonade on that hot summer day. We watched the toy table too. In the end though, it was ok, we had a few dollars(Fashioned Challenged Seventies Dollars, the kind that bought LOTS of stuff) to show for our labor, so we could replace our sold toys, for new, bright and shiny toys. So it was good.
The t-k found a couple toy trucks to add to the mountain of wheeled toys he already has, gammie and better 1/2 found a couple of things they could not pass up(it is ONLY a quarter) and I got a neat memeory bubble to the surface.
I also think that there are people who travel the endless streets of rummage sales and buy stuff for the sole purpose of selling it in their driveways at some future date. That would explain much. I also think that for an author to truly have made it, they must have dog eared copies of their books on sale for a quarter at rummage sales. King, Coontz, Patterson & Grisham were in fine form today.
In the end, the rain sent everyone packing and we went off to have lunch. Not a bad day at all. Everyone had a good time and we added, albeit not by much but still.., to our collection of future rummage sale treasures.
Happy Treasure Hunting
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