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Article: Treasure in the trash
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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BROAD SIDES - The serious fire power of womyn's words
To paraphrase an old saying: One woman's trash is another woman's
treasure. Nowhere is that more apparent than at a yard sale.
Recently my mother, her friends and I held a yard sale at my mom's
house on the Cape.
Almost as much fun as watching people happily hand over their
money ($3 for a bath rug, $5 for a crystal picture frame, $2 for a
sledgehammer) was making small talk with the customers. We talked,
sold, arranged and rearranged items all morning. A steady stream of
customers was constant until about 1:30 p.m., when it slowed to a
trickle and we seized a moment to sit in the garage.
Then two young girls approached and examined the ...