Jenny had warned me that she wouldn’t be doing sales this weekend. She also had sent me an email earlier in the week letting me know about the Broadview Community Garage Sale. My friend (and previous guest star) Tokyo Rose wanted to come along, since she just purchased her first home and needs to start filling it. She even made a list and brought along my copy of the Apartment Therapy book. I made a list of sales, but I didn’t get too crazy, since I was thinking about the amazing Broadview sale.

First, we hit yet another creepy doll sale, with hundreds of dolls.

I didn’t look around too closely, although this Baby Skates one did catch my eye.

This was connected to a sale that Jenny and I had hit last year, but they managed to get their two neighbors to join in this time.

We didn’t go to tons of sales on the way to Broadview. When we got there we didn’t see any signs and it took two sales to even get a map. When I looked at the map, it had just 20 sales on it. And 4 of them were on Sunday. WTF? A “community” sale with only 16 sales? What a waste.

We then hit a sale at Salty Dog Pottery. I was sort of excited, since I drive by this building all the time.

It might have been good earlier, but by the time we got there it was mostly just nice pottery and oddly, two tables of ’70s Avon perfume bottles.

We drove by this really large and odd community bulletin board on a side street.

The next sale had mostly dog figurines. A lot of them.

Of course, this was nothing compared to the World’s Largest Collectible Dog Museum I visited in Waco, Texas last year.

Driving on, we spotted one of the more interesting sale signs that I’ve seen.

When we got to the sale, Tokyo found a really great 50s formica table for her new place and I picked up a wonderful 50s men’s jacket. And while we were there, the guy that painted the sign … painted us. His name is Sam Day and he paints people at weddings.

O.K., neither of us really look quite like this, but it was something that hasn’t ever happened to me before at a sale.

I took a trunk photo and really this might be one of the worst trunk photos ever.

Since it’s so bad, I pulled out one thing to show you that I picked up for a whopping $13.

It’s a Gallia Deco tea, coffee and creamer set. I can’t seem to find much information about them, but I think you can tell how amazing they are. This is the cleaned up version — it was pretty nasty when I picked them up. I used some serious elbow grease to get them to look like this!