Daytripping Spring 2024
Daytripping is a Free Magazine filled from start to finish with all of the best Odd, Antique & Unique Shops, Events & Unexpected Stops
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Lake Huron<br />
MI<br />
ONTARIO<br />
The great shops never end... now we’re in SPARTA, NEW SARUM & AYLMER<br />
NY<br />
I Got It At a Yard Sale<br />
For Only $5<br />
Publisher’s Note: I stumbled upon this<br />
article from 22 years ago where a reader,<br />
Helen Irwin, had suggested that <strong>Daytripping</strong><br />
create a list of Town Wide Yard Sales. We<br />
found 34 of them that year and I have to<br />
think that <strong>Daytripping</strong> and the Facebook/<br />
Townwideyardsale page, created by Carrie<br />
Ann Timm (our Associate Publisher) have<br />
played a hand in what’s become a craze for<br />
many years now. We have around 100 listed<br />
with our events list (see page 47) and Carrie<br />
Ann expects that her site will eventually<br />
have in the neighbourhood of 140. The list<br />
has been one of the most popular featured<br />
in <strong>Daytripping</strong> since Helen had that good<br />
idea way back in 2001.<br />
Yard sale followers say the most<br />
enjoyable way to spend summer<br />
Saturdays is making short drives between<br />
locations, then rifling through messy lots<br />
of used items. That’s why established,<br />
large, well-organized yard sales are<br />
eagerly anticipated by customers.<br />
The village of Cottam holds an annual<br />
sale day for the entire community.<br />
Yards, garages and businesses display an<br />
unimaginable variety of excellent items.<br />
After being established a few years,<br />
people come regardless of the weather or<br />
other attractions.<br />
This year, 2001, the day dawned on<br />
heavily pouring rain. At eight-fifteen a.m.,<br />
Memory Lane Hairdressing & Gift Shop<br />
was jammed with people who came for<br />
the sale. Women were getting their hair<br />
done while the crowd spilled into the<br />
salon area, but no one minded.<br />
They were lugging off teddy bears,<br />
wrought iron candle sconces, woven<br />
scenic throws, fancy picture frames,<br />
By Helen Irwin<br />
From <strong>Daytripping</strong> May-June 2002<br />
firemen figurines and heaps more.<br />
Everyone was happy.<br />
On the sidewalk, baked goods covered<br />
with plastic were being sold to a crowd of<br />
raincoated patrons, many with umbrellas.<br />
Of course I bought some - where else<br />
can you get genuine homemade pastry?<br />
Not far away, fresh vegetables from local<br />
greenhouses were on sale. Later, rain<br />
over, wares were spread on lawns. It was<br />
a good sale day.<br />
There are thousands of single-home<br />
yard sales every summer, but it takes<br />
volume to attract buyers. A municipal<br />
yard and garage sale takes much<br />
organizing so its not too early to start on<br />
one for next year. Set the date, agree on a<br />
few rules, and be ready to advertise one<br />
or two months ahead.<br />
Patrons want variety - a rocking chair,<br />
kitchen table, baby furnishings, even<br />
a wheelchair. But they may buy a big<br />
heavy milk can. “It isn’t rusted inside.”<br />
We can use is if there’s another “boil<br />
water” warning. “Here’s an old glass milk<br />
bottle turned lightly blue,” and “Hey, look<br />
at this - a Philco radio that still works!”<br />
Unrecognized treasures. Well, maybe.<br />
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure<br />
- that’s what makes yard sales successful.<br />
A yard sale daytrip usually takes one<br />
no more than 50 miles from home,<br />
and rural scenery between villages and<br />
towns usually is beautiful. Take a picnic<br />
lunch. Better, stop at a comfortable little<br />
restaurant along the way.<br />
Yard sales are desirable events for<br />
steadily increasing numbers of people, so<br />
I’d like to see town-wide sales advertised<br />
in <strong>Daytripping</strong>.<br />
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