What is it about garage sales?

We’ve had 22 homes in the Greenbrook & Shadow Hills neighborhoods of Danville, CA sign up for today’s big garage sale event. I was delivering maps, signs and pricing stickers yesterday to all the participants and had a couple of fun moments.

I caught the husband of one of the homes that had signed up. He was completely surprised that they were holding a garage sale. He was okay with it, but commented he would be up late to help with preparations and to ensure that nothing was being sold that he still wanted.

How often it is that the husbands are the last to know what is going on in the house!

My girlfriend, Jane, decided to unclutter the patio and yard. She emptied and cleaned up a bunch of terracotta pots and took them over to the Meeses. She sold $80 of them yesterday to neighbors making a preemptive strike.

She has now caught “garage sale” fever and was up late packing the car with stuff that just yesterday she couldn’t live without!

Here’s hoping the weather is dry from 8 to noon.