In the summer,
everybody in the neighborhood puts on some kind of sale: a yard sale, a porch sale, a
garage sale. I ran into one kid who was having a cigar-box sale. For a quarter he'd sell
you nice dead frog.
Things to
remember about garage sales:
> Anything that looks awful at a garage sale will also look awful when you get it home
and unwrap it.
--And that goes double for the fat lady who's running the sale.
> Never buy health insurance at a garage sale.
>
It's inconvenient, but most garage sales will not lay-away merchandise until Christmas.
> Evidence
is beginning to surface that there is only one set of junk for garage sales, and that it
is rented out to a different family every Saturday from a central office in Peoria.
> To get the most out of a garage sale, decide in advance what you want to buy and how
much you want to spend. Then stay home and hold your own garage sale.
> The basic philosophy behind garage sales is that if you can't possibly give it away,
you can probably sell it.
--To my wife!
