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Not the Great Glebe Garage Sale
Jun. 19th, 2022 01:55 pmIt was the Fisher Heights and Area Community Association garage sale:
https://fhaca.wordpress.com
Smaller, but much more manageable. Although there were 30 "official" participants, we encountered quite a few impromptu pop-up sites as well.
We bypassed the ones that pretty much only had baby and little-kid stuff, and there were a lot of those. But others had general household items, books, CDs and DVDs, clothing and jewellery.
The people living at a house around the corner from us are big supporters of the Ottawa Humane Society and as usual, they were flogging stuff collected from a bunch of other like-minded families (or maybe just families with a lot of stuff they want to get rid of). I always find some good stuff when I shop there! Yesterday it was jewellery. For a grand outlay of $6, I got the following:
- for $1, a small, heart shaped jewellery case with flaps and snap closures on top. Inside, in the middle compartment, space for 7 rings. On either side of this, a small compartment, big enough to hold maybe a pair of earrings or a couple of very small items.
- one ring and six brooches or lapel pins, each ranging in price from 25 cents to $1
At another place, I paid $1 for a set of 6 cork-backed trivets with pretty designs on them (3 different designs, 2 of each). At any sort of major meal, I never seem to have enough trivets!
I also bought a couple of items of clothing:
1 embroidered white cotton pull-over tunic (similar to what used to be widely available at places like Aziz and Orientique), for $1
1 light grey safari-type jacket, with lots of pockets, for $2
There weren't as many places as usual with books and CDs and at most of those, the selection was disappointing. Either it was a bunch of self-help type books or very battered bestsellers that were not really to my taste anyway. But towards the end of our journey, I got lucky and found the following 3 hardcover books, all in good condition, for $2 apiece:
If I Die Before I Wake: Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona MacGregor, Toronto 1918; by Jean Little, 2007 (particularly interesting to me was Jean Little's afterword, with photos of some of her ancestors who had lived through the whole thing)
The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
A Stolen Life: A memoir, by Jaycee Dugard
I also bought a Chris White CD, 3AM, for $1. Chris White is one of the brains behind the Ottawa Folk Festival (and may still be involved with its successor, CityFolk.
Total cost for all items: $17. Not a bad morning's haul, I thought. And it's good to see these events coming back after a couple of dry years.
https://fhaca.wordpress.com
Smaller, but much more manageable. Although there were 30 "official" participants, we encountered quite a few impromptu pop-up sites as well.
We bypassed the ones that pretty much only had baby and little-kid stuff, and there were a lot of those. But others had general household items, books, CDs and DVDs, clothing and jewellery.
The people living at a house around the corner from us are big supporters of the Ottawa Humane Society and as usual, they were flogging stuff collected from a bunch of other like-minded families (or maybe just families with a lot of stuff they want to get rid of). I always find some good stuff when I shop there! Yesterday it was jewellery. For a grand outlay of $6, I got the following:
- for $1, a small, heart shaped jewellery case with flaps and snap closures on top. Inside, in the middle compartment, space for 7 rings. On either side of this, a small compartment, big enough to hold maybe a pair of earrings or a couple of very small items.
- one ring and six brooches or lapel pins, each ranging in price from 25 cents to $1
At another place, I paid $1 for a set of 6 cork-backed trivets with pretty designs on them (3 different designs, 2 of each). At any sort of major meal, I never seem to have enough trivets!
I also bought a couple of items of clothing:
1 embroidered white cotton pull-over tunic (similar to what used to be widely available at places like Aziz and Orientique), for $1
1 light grey safari-type jacket, with lots of pockets, for $2
There weren't as many places as usual with books and CDs and at most of those, the selection was disappointing. Either it was a bunch of self-help type books or very battered bestsellers that were not really to my taste anyway. But towards the end of our journey, I got lucky and found the following 3 hardcover books, all in good condition, for $2 apiece:
If I Die Before I Wake: Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona MacGregor, Toronto 1918; by Jean Little, 2007 (particularly interesting to me was Jean Little's afterword, with photos of some of her ancestors who had lived through the whole thing)
The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
A Stolen Life: A memoir, by Jaycee Dugard
I also bought a Chris White CD, 3AM, for $1. Chris White is one of the brains behind the Ottawa Folk Festival (and may still be involved with its successor, CityFolk.
Total cost for all items: $17. Not a bad morning's haul, I thought. And it's good to see these events coming back after a couple of dry years.
