I manned the cash register and watched over the customers. It was quite fun, as I haven't had a garage sale with dad in over 20 years. We had much fun and we made about $200 bucks total. I was amazed at how much cool vintage stuff dad had, and was happy to take a good amount of stuff that no one else bought.
My favorite find was this space heater. It has two settings: plugged in (on) and not plugged in (off). It was made way before things like "safety" went into the design of small heating appliances, so it could totally burn the house down if left unattended.
But there were also some great items from my past for sale that made me a little nostalgic. This is what I used to type my papers up in high school before I got my first computer. It was so cool to be able to type in a paragraph and preview it on the little screen sentence by sentence before hitting the 'print' button!
And then I found my pac-man phone from when I was a kid! Turns out dad had 3 of these, so I snagged on in the original box, in case I decided to eBay this someday...
I remember thinking this phone was the coolest thing ever, especially since it played a tune when you put someone on hold, I felt so grown up putting people on hold.
I also got this super cute speaker that still works! I won't be taking it to Belgium, but I will keep it for my next apartment in America.
The biggest sellers on the day though, were these little doorstops for ten cents each. Almost everyone that got something usually picked up one or two of these. I suppose that this is the season for home improvement projects.
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