There were 97 garage sales that started in Grand Forks today and I managed to go to every one of them. More than half of them were in four separate neighborhood sales which made it easier to cover them all.

I love neighborhood sales because everyone else loves them too. I leave them for last while nearly everyone else goes to them first. That means I’m usually able to be the first person into a dozen or more sales instead of only one or two when there are no neighborhood sales.

I left home at 6:30 AM, visited the ATM machine, filled the Explorer with gas (ouch!!) and was making the first purchase of the day by 6:50.

Once again, there were no real great finds. A lot of what I bought today are things that should bring $10 to $30, but the items that will even come close to three figures were pretty scarce.

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There were twenty-six garage sales in Grand Forks today, starting at anywhere from 8 AM to 5 PM.

One of the 8 o’clock sales was advertised as:

“Estate sale. Antiques, advertising items, porcelain signs, pottery, old books, …….”

We were the first people there at 7 AM and I ended up buying a Chilton’s Corvair repair & tune-up manual and a 1939 textbook from Shell Oil for service station owners for $1 each. The rest was mostly junk. The one antique was a nice oak armoire, but I’m not interested in furniture so I called a friend who refinishes furniture and he came right over and bought it.

The advertising items amounted to a half dozen oil cans from the last ten years. The porcelain signs were all currently available reproductions, and the pottery was a few pieces that one of the sellers had made in a ceramics class. The old books were mostly romance paperbacks.

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