Just came back from a few garage sales. Not a whole lot to be found this morning. A stack of GameInformer magazines that we bought for Bryan at 50 cents apiece. Not bad, when you consider that one of them is the June 2008 issue and probably hasn't even hit the stands yet.

Otherwise it was a wasted trip. I hate garage sales that have nothing but clothes for sale. And dinky little garage sales where it looks like someone dug a bunch of junk out of a dumpster and laid it out on their yard to try and sell it. We saw a couple of each kind this morning and even stopped at one (usually you can spot these sort, and drive on by).

The big time garage sales have not yet begun, I assume. Probably later in the summer we'll see some better ones. Then there's always the City Wide garage sale. If you can't find something cool at that one then you're too hard to please.

Why do we go to these garage sales? It's not that we NEED any of the stuff that people sell. We're not so poor that we'd have to buy a pair of shoes at one because we couldn't afford to get them new.

But I have to say that it's a lot of fun to see what kind of crap people want to get rid of. Most of it is just that---total junk. Still, every once in a while you'll find something really neat. You decide you've got to have it and what the hell, it's probably going to cost a dollar or two (less if you're looking for books, which is practically the only thing I ever buy at yard sales). It's a recycling thing of sorts...you move it from one person's pile of crap and add it to your own until you decide to have your own garage sale. By then you'll be tired of it. Throw it in with the other garbage you're ready to chunk and make what you can off of it (might as well...if it doesn't sell you'll chunk it anyway...after all, it's a long drive to the Salvation Army and Goodwill thrift stores).