Mr.Rightleft: It's a great day in the neighborhood!

Had a garage sale last weekend with my amazing sister-in-law. I must say this is an annual event that I quite look forward to every year. Why you ask? Because, if you have never HAD a garage sale, or yard sale, then you just don't know what you are missing! First, there's the hours and hours that you pour into getting your soon-to-be-discarded treasures ready. You agonize over how much you should put on that electric hot dog cooker that your aunt Betty gave you for your first wedding, or that inside-the-shell electric egg scrambler that you thought you couldn't live without! I can't even tell you how many times I had to call the sister-in-law for her to give me a heads up on what to price my gems! She is, after all, the master of garage sale bargains! Then you place the add in the local paper. Of course you list the times, but it doesn't really matter, you can bet that these garage sale connoisseur's will show up an hour before your ready to get your stuff to the yard! Then the party begins!!!! You have the ones that spend a lot of time picking up, fondling and walking around with a bunch of stuff, then you get your hopes high, only to have them put it all down and leave. And then there's the one's that walk around criticizing the quality, condition, color, size, quantity, price and anything else about the merchandise. Good lord! This is a garage sale not Nordstroms! And boy, will they barter for a price cut! So, your once precious tuna can drainer has been reduced to a mere 50 cents!

I've been to several garage sales myself and I have seen some pretty weird stuff for sale. Here is some things that I found on the Internet that have actu

ally been for sale at garage sales:

Now, this little gem must have been pretty hard to part with.

Not only was it probably hard to part with, but I would bet that

someone's dreams went out the window when someone snatched

this up!

There's never a shortage of bicycles for sale, but this thing kinda dumbfounds me. I guess if you bought this, they could say they caught you com

ing and going?

And who hasn't seen telephones for sale at garage sales! Yes, good ole' Ma Bell herself would be rolling over in her grave if she knew her beloved "lips phone" was just $1.50!!!!

And yes, I have saved the best for last.........no, I myself have never seen one of these for sale at a garage sale, but this is an actual casket for sale at a garage sale. Do you think someone bothered to ask if it was used? Wonder what the rock bottom dollar was for it? No pun intended!

And I can't end without mentioning the old biddy in the blue recliner! My nephew put his beloved blue recliner up for grabs at a bargain price of just $5.00! (now, we all know how hard it is for a man to part with their recliner!) But his senses took over and he did. So, this crabby old lady showed up, and of course walked around and around, checking out the goods, sat down in the recliner for awhile then preceded to leave, I might add without purchasing anything! So as she and her granddaughter were leaving, the kid wanted to buy a hot dog that my amazing sister-in-law was serving up for yet another bargain price of $1.50, so the old biddy yelled from

her car that 'she was not going to pay a dollar-fifty for a hot dog!' Well! I'll have you know, these hot dogs were not made with an electric hot dog maker! I think she should have purchased the boob jar because that is exactly what she was! A big fat boob!