We were up at 7:00 a.m. today and heading over to nearby Tekonsha, Michigan, for the city-wide Labor Day yard sales. We stopped at the TA truck stop to fill up on blue DEF and then turned south on Main Street. Wow! Huge sales everywhere. And people were everywhere, some walking, some riding golf carts, some driving, and even some in patio chairs on a flat trailer. Whole families with toddlers strolled down the middle of the streets. Tekonsha is definitely a slice of small town America.
Some of the sales were definitely dealers, with large tents set up in open spaces, but others were more eclectic. Some folks had just a few things in their driveways and garages. We found some benefit sales for church missions and local causes.
Nearly everything you can imagine was offered for sale, including all kinds of John Deere tractors, a Harley motorcycle, scooters, tons of clothing, produce from the garden, and lots of miscellany. Many people had coolers full of bottled water and pop on ice, and a couple of food trucks offered hot dogs and such.
We walked around from sale to sale, sometimes returning to the truck and moving on a bit.. It was hard to remember which sales we had been to, and one time we were a bit uncertain where we had left the truck.
We saw enormous quantities of things we didn't need, but we found some treasures amidst the trash. Ken found a compact, lightweight tripod, which he will be able to carry easily hiking or biking. He also picked up a copy of Bill Clinton's My Life. I found lots of miscellany, including a brand new one-quart Takeya Flash Chill Tea Maker. What really attracted me was the tall tea infuser, which I think will work well in our Corning Ware teapot, which remind me that I also found a new Corning Ware teapot.
Of course the real value of the day is the fun of the treasure hunt. We had so much fun that it was suppertime by the time we got back home, so it was a good thing that we had leftover chili and cornbread to go with the salads Ken made yesterday.
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