“I don’t get the attraction here”, exclaimed Steve. “You’ll just be foraging through a bunch of dead people’s stuff!”
“Well, we prefer to think of it as Estate Sailing”, we quipped back with somewhat of an air of exclusivity. After all, we weren’t even planning to hit any of the more ubiquitous Spring yard sales.... just the estate level for us.
The Friday “early birds” do get first dibbs it’s true. Making the scene on a Saturday afternoon is so much more laid back though and prices by then are often half off. There’s always esoteric items that have been overlooked too...like those Oriental trivets I got. Hey, you can never have too many trivets, right? And there were some crazy retro ties at the late doctor’s house...but I’m more of a bolo guy.....found a sweet bolo for just two bucks.
Yeah, it is a little creepy that with folks barely in their graves, the vultures descend upon their belongings.
A little Brasso cleaned up those trivets real nice and some Woolite has my bolo lookin spiffy again. So, allow me to get all philosophical on you. Though people have passed on so that we may paw through their possessions; it is we who have given their stuff a whole new life.
