on june 15, 2002, the krol's decided to hold their third loyalist garage sale. i wouldn't call this an annual event because they've only had two garage sales since 1985. this garage sale, however, was the most successful one. people must have been waiting years for the krol's to host another garage sale...or perhaps they knew the durant girls would be trying to pawn all their dollar store toys.

the evening before the garage sale, the gang got together to set up the tables and price the items. mrs. krol took authority and became know to us as "the dictator". this picture illustrates how erin felt obligated to follow mrs. krol's directions.

as soon as we wheeled out the blue angel bicycle, a flood of memories came back. this is roseanne's old childhood bike. it was sold even before the garage sale began to a kid who loves the 80's...and this kid is NOT ME!

at 7 am, the place was packed and we weren't even there yet. the ad said 8:00 you idiots!! the rain wasn't going to stop no one. according to an old man at the garage sale "the rain won't keep away the most hardcore garage sailors". luckily the showers only lasted 5 minutes.

we are proud to announce that this garage sale created the first ever loyalist traffic jam. cars were honking their horns, people were parking in the middle of the road, and we witnessed many near fatal collisions...all in the name of our junk!

when it slowed down a bit, i decided to read the coles notes i was selling to see exactly what i will be missing. stories about morag gunn will not be missed, just like oac writers craft.

i was very troubled deciding whether to sell my dollar store instruments. well i went ahead and sold them, but they didn't sell quickly. in the meantime, the dollar crazies decided to reunite for a garage sale jam. we rocked out, but not hard enough to wake up micheal krol, who was sleeping with his window open, right above our stage.

kram was able to sell his junk better than the rest of us. i figured out it was because of his conversations with his customers. my favourite quote from kram was when he was selling these baseball pants to this old lady, who wasn't even interested in buying clothes, "it's okay for girls to wear guy's clothes, but not so much the other way around". guess this sold the woman because she ended up buying them.

erin and myself created our own little retro/vintage table when we saw a guy with dreads mowing the lawn across the street. we put our cool clothes and cds together, but it was unsuccessful. the dread boy came over, looked at our thrift store, laughed and left.

we all made off pretty well, suprisingly enough. erin, roseanne and katie managed to score 40 bucks each...of course kram was the ultimate garage salesman, scoring around $100!!

this garage sale exceeded our expectations. no longer than an hour after we were spending our money on father's day presents.