Thursday, March 28, 2024

Warren Avenue hosts half of Pateros City Wide Yard Sale sites for three-day event

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PATEROS – Warren Avenue West, from Riverside Drive on the west to Dawson Street on the east, was Yard Sale Central last weekend as half of the 16 locations that participated in the city’s annual 2018 City Wide Yard Sales event from Thursday, June 14 through Saturday, June 16, were Warren Avenue addresses.
There were bargain buys everywhere as sale after sale featured one or more items that were being offered for much less than their retail value.
At the corner of Warren and Augusta a Craftsman Professional leaf vacuum mounted on a trailer and powered by a Briggs & Stratton 8.25 gas engine was available for the best offer.
Another Warren Avenue address had a collection of elaborately detailed limited edition Boyds Bearly-Built Villages on the block. The original purchase price of each piece exceeded $30 but the box of nearly a dozen individually number pieces was up for sale for just $30.
A little further down the street a Water Skeeter personal pontoon craft was looking for the best offer.
Kirk and Kim Conway had a real steal on two sets of like-new pickup tires, rims, hubcaps, and lug nuts that drew several buyers who knew a bargain when they saw it.
“It was like a parking lot out here,” said Kirk of the prospective purchasers jostling for the sale.
“They were all out here on their cell phones calling each other,” Kim said.
While the tires were gone, the Conway’s still had a four-shelf Smoke Vault smoker with 20,000 BTU propane burner, still in the box and complete with the patio cover, for $100, well below its market value.
As they usually do, George and Carol Pearson had some items from a towing package to a trolling motor in their yard sale so attractively priced that buyers who didn’t even know they needed the thing couldn’t pass up the fire-sale bargain.
Brian Hoif brought his saltwater aquarium system to sell at friend Mike Lambert’s yard sale because he was concerned that the potential for winter power outages at his residence would damage the living stock in the tank.
“Someone got the bargain of the weekend from me,” said Hoif. “I sold the whole thing for a hundred bucks. There’s probably $400 worth of stuff.”
The three-family yard sale of the Wahl, Ross and Tillson was an attempt of a mother and her two daughters to lighten up on possessions. Mark Tillson had the steal of their lot with his 5.5 horse Honda power washer that he was willing to part with for $75.
The number of sales locations was down from last year when nearly three dozen residences signed up with treasures to sell. Several yard sale regulars said they missed former days when the three-day event was held over the Labor Day weekend and buyers planned their vacation visits around it.
“We don’t have anything else going on during Labor Day around here,” one seller said.
 

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