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Garage Sale Season Has Started!

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Garage sale season has finally started!

I love garage sales because you never know what you might find.

Or not…

:)

I stopped at three on Saturday. The first one had the whole street full of cars. I had to WAIT for some customers to leave before I could park anywhere near the place. People were leaving carrying sacks. ALL OF THEM.

Oh, anticipation was getting to me. I SO wanted to park blocking someone’s driveway just so I could hurry and get in there before all the good stuff was gone. I wanted to block the mailman by parking in front of a mailbox.

But I was good.

I waited.

Almost patiently.

Then someone actually left! YEAH! I parked and high-tailed it in there.

At first glance, I thought NO, there’s nothing here for me. Then I saw their DVD’s. TONS of them. Two bucks a piece.

Oh how many to pick? Should I just get one or two? I opted for five making my purchase an even ten.

I worried if maybe I was duplicating something I already owned. I wondered if I was choosing something worth two bucks…. I chose Stargate, one of my all time favorite films that I knew I didn’t have. I ROBOT which I ‘didn’t’ think I owned, The Edge because I like that movie… picked up the war one for Chiliman and took a gamble on Strange Days. (We watched that one yesterday - NOT a keeper.)

I did pretty good.

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Garage Sales in Norman

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

This past weekend I hit the all town garage sales in Norman Oklahoma.

I’d have to say that overall, it wasn’t ‘as’ good as the prior all town sale in Noble, but only because the garage sales were much further apart. After all, Norman is a bigger place than Noble…

The first sale I stopped at had HIGH prices and two beautiful cats running around. I got blocked in the driveway and had to wait. I only parked ‘in’ the driveway because of ‘where’ this sale was situated. You couldn’t park on the street.

The second place I stopped at - well I was there earlier in the year. Bummer. Same stuff too. And again the lady that blocked me at the first sale, pulled up here too, but this time she parked beside me, not behind me…

I actually bought something at the third sale! Now I was pumped!

I’ll take some photos asap and post them here!

Don’t you just love the thrill of the hunt and the ‘find’ at yard sales? :)

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