There’s still plenty of snow on the ground and our high temperatures are only between ten and fifteen degrees most days, but we’ve had two garage sales in Grand Forks during the last two weeks.

The first was held indoors by one of our local churches. While the sale officially began at 8:00 in the morning, for $2 you could buy early buyers rights beginning an hour early at 7:00. I got there about 6:30 and there were already fourteen people in line ahead of me. By the time they opened the door at 7:00 there were between 100 and 150 people standing in line clutching their $2 in their hand.

We were in the middle of a heat wave and the temperature was in the twenties with no wind so standing in line wasn’t bad. When they held their sale one year ago temps were below zero with a twenty to twenty-five mile an hour wind so it was a lot more pleasant this year.
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