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Once per year the town home community in which we live has a giant garage sale. It’s important to keep track of the date for a number of reasons.

1. It is the ONLY time I’m allowed to have a garage sale per the by-laws.
2. Our two car garage isn’t as big as it would seem and fills up quickly with “stuff”.
3. A fantastic opportunity to go junking at over 100 homes within walking distance!

Yesterday was the day … and I had forgotten about it until late Friday. Luckily I had started a box and pile in the garage, so it didn’t take long to get set up. I didn’t have time to tag everything, though.

After closing up at noon, I did a little shopping of my own. And, well, let’s just say more came in then went out! Sigh, sigh … it’s a losing battle.

Here’s what I found.

Two doors from an old Hoosier cabinet with art glass insets. Someone had already stripped them. I think I’ll make magnetic chalkboards out of them. What do you think?

Two old heater grates. I’ll take the boxes off the back, clean them up and they’ll be ready to go.

Several old boxes and crates. This one is a printers box for books with labels on both sides.

A really sweet mother and child picture. This is the kind of stuff I really love and hunt most for — totally girly, girl stuff.

A large and very heavy antique 4 loaf bakery pan. The fellow I bought it from said I had to take all the junk in it, too. Lot’s of old nails, baby food jars and I found a couple of neat hinges in there, too. My husband will sort it all.

This is one maybe I shouldn’t have picked up. I promised myself not to buy any more “projects”, because we really don’t have the facilities and room to work on them here in our tiny abode. But how shabby-er, chic-er can you get than this? The construction, though, is solid.

Another box full of old hardware and nails. This one was a drawer long, long ago.

The dovetail detail on the side of the old drawer.

The other side of the explosives crate.

A rather large old window with four of the six panes intact — just lovely old wavy glass.

And, finally, a gate-leg table that also needs some TLC.

At first I thought a good cleaning with a little Murphy’s Oil Soap, followed by that Old English stain/polish combo is all it needs. But now I’m thinking a black painted aged look might suit it better.

We didn’t have as much traffic from outside the community as we did last year. Colorado Springs has an annual SpringSpree event that was going on at the same time.

I sold more than I spent at the garage sale event. So I’m quite happy.