Starting in Kensington at 8:30, most of the households were still setting up. So I went to the nearby Starbucks, swiped a few more cards, a coffee and a fudge something-or-another, waited a few minutes then began.
It was OK. Some X-box games for the boy, sheets for the bed (as mine have mysterious stains that won't seem to wash out), a cutting board (I need a cutting board!!) and, last but not least, a set of 2 Laguoile game servers (?) (forks, I'll call them), for 50 cents.
Horn handles, the bumblebee on the side, they're beautiful. Completely impractical, and what I really wanted was a Laguoile corkscrew, but they'll do for the moment.
And a cutting board. I need a cutting board. This cutting board, for a toonie, weighs about 30 pounds and that's this trip.
There are other things, a bunch of intellectual books over-analyzing "The Simpsons", the author in attendance (introduced by his wife), I didn't stop and peruse as I have no use for living and/or successful authors, so I left them behind. Lots of good books, but I'm behind in my reading so the books were passed over.
There was a beautifully hardwood & leather sofa, Victorian styled but made in Indonesia, tempting but I have a sofa and don't need another.
Tarot cards and a book on how to interpret. Always useful.
The weight of the finds of the day, of the cutting board and the sheets, it's dragging me down so I go and wait for the bus and unload my treasures at home. Then back to a few I saw advertised closer to home - more X-Box 360 games, X-box games, Wii games for the daughter, they're the real winners this time out, this weekend alone the boy has got a dozen new games for his X-Box systems....some cufflinks and tie-clips (passed on to the people at work), aprons (IBID), beanies for the daughter and that's it.
It's too late in the day now to have a nap, I'll never wake up and so I simply get ready for work and go. A shame, I was on a roll, I could have garage-saled alll day....