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Article: 'Tis the season to hold a garage sale
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 30, 1988
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Nine unmatched dishes.
Eight party favors.
Seven dozen golfballs.
Six cans of tuna.
Five old swimsuits.
Four curtain rods.
Three silk scarves.
Two bags of birdseed.
And a boxful of whatchamacallits.
When the aforementioned items begin to crowd the old homestead,
neighborhoods from Arlington Heights to Zion start to percolate with
seasonal bargain hunters parked three across in the streets. Hello,
Fall. It's still garage-sale season.
The Bargain Hunter's Almanac accurately predicted that the
summer of '88 would give us all severe cases of
warmer-than-you-ever-believed-possible air-conditioned cabin fever.
If you're like me, you've spent the past two months tagging your ...