Every year, this small church in downtown Yukon does a three day garage sale. The sale runs the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday after the Czech Festival, but we’ve never been on Thursday or Friday because Saturday (the last day of the sale) is “everything you can put in a paper grocery sack for a dollar” day. I’m sure Sunday is “all this stuff is going to Goodwill” day, so the church makes a few extra bucks the day before that happens and people load up on grocery sacks full of stuff. I think this was the third year in a row that we’ve gone to the sale. Here’s what I got today for a dollar. Again, not a dollar each — one dollar, total. First up is a hard-of-hearing bird and a skeleton pirate.
“I’m a skeleton, you know.”
“What?”
Next up were these three DVDs.
“On the Edge” features 10 stand up comics including Dave Attell, Dane Cook, Lewis Black, and the late and oh-so-great Mitch Hedberg. Then there’s the Dennis Miller DVD that features, well, Dennis Miller. I think I already have Pump up the Volume on DVD but if we review this film on my Throwback Reviews podcast, I’ll give this copy away. There were another 20 or so DVDs at the sale but I had not heard of any of them and none of them looked like anything I would watch, so I left them. Next up, a few CDs.
“Space and Beyond” is a 2-CD compilation that contains themes from science fiction films and a bunch of sound effects. Likewise, “Screen Themes ’94” contains songs from films released in 1994. That includes Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, True Lies and the Lion King. The third CD is Paul Simon’s “Songs from the Capeman.” Again, I left at least a hundred CDs behind.
This is a fake watermelon, a USB cable (of which I already own 9,000) and a Pez dispenser. I didn’t say they were all gems.
This is a brand new guitar strap. I own six guitars and two guitar straps and one of them is so janky that it’s literally duct taped in place. This will come in handy.
As for the other members of the family, Mason scored big in his search for Thunder things. In a box he found all of these signs, each one from a different playoff game.
From what I could tell, Morgan got a bag full of used ribbon and Christmas tinsel and I’m not sure what Susan got. If it was anything amazing there will be a follow up post.
I had the Space & Beyond CD set a long time ago. Good stuff, though it’s all new recordings rather than the originals. I never really “got” why they had a bunch of FX tracks in there taking up space that an additional piece of music could’ve filled… probably cheaper, since another piece of music would’ve cost them in royalties, I suppose.
next time one of the teenagers decides to plow down the street sign at the end of the block, I’ll snag it and send it to y’all “Mason St.” would look pretty cool next to “Mason Ct.”