I’ve always been a huge sucker for a yard sale (or “tag sale,” as we called them back in New England). Cruising around the neighborhood on a bike, it’s a low-bar way to have a chat with a neighbor and also a sort of voyeuristic pleasure, like a visit to the museum of someone’s life. There are the tchotchkes from a long-ago trip to Greece, the Easy-Bake Oven harkening back to life in the 1970s, the abandoned exercise equipment yearning to…
I began volunteering this past fall at the Assistance League of Seattle Thrift Store, a place I already knew well. Since moving to Wallingford three years ago, to begin my “urban retirement adventure” near my daughter, the store had become one of my favorite neighborhood stops. I still remember the first time I walked through the front door and felt instantly hooked. Instead of the dim church-basement thrift stores I was used to on the East Coast, I found a bright,…
Santa Sharon has a deal for you. For more than 40 years, Sharon Ehrig decorated her home on Woodlawn Avenue North with thousands of Christmas lights and other decorations. Her home was so brightly decorated that it was on the old-time Metro bus tour of Christmas lights for 10 years. And for 18 years, Ehrig dressed in a Santa suit and sat on her front porch, rocking for hours as visitors passed by. But all that ended in 2011 after Ehrig…
View Greenwood Garage and Yard Sale in a larger map Sorry for the late notice, folks, but today, from 9 am - 3 pm, the fabulous Phinney Garage Sale Day, the best all-neighborhood garage sale day in the city is happening: Come out and join us for the 17th annual Greenwood Garage Sale Day! It's a great opportunity to meet your neighbors while buying and selling treasures! There will be a Flea Market in the lower parking lot of the Phinney…
Don't forget, in addition to the Wallingford (backyard farms) Walk, tomorrow is the John Stanford School's Wallingford Yard Sale Tour: eight homes (up from six earlier this week) around the neighborhood will be holding yard sales with donated items from JSIS families, with the proceeds benefiting the school. Here's the latest list of homes: View JSIS Yard Sale Tour 2010 in a larger map 2200 N. 38th St. 1818 N. 43rd St. 4011 Corliss Ave N. 3823 Burke Ave N. 4714…
Yard sale season is upon us again, and the John Stanford International School is helping us kick it off with their annual Yard Sale Tour this Saturday, May 15th from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. Like last year, there are six houses throughout the neighborhood that will be hosting garage sales as fundraisers: View JSIS Yard Sale Tour 2010 in a larger map 2200 N. 38th St. 1818 N. 43rd St. 4011 Corliss Ave N. 3823 Burke Ave N. 4714 4th…
Note the singular "garage sale". We're sure there are more out there, people unload their junk all year 'round, even January, but we could only dig one up to share with you. Open houses, on the other hand, we've got in spades. View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map Lots of fine homes out there, all waiting eagerly for your move in. We'd like to draw your attention in particular to 4333 Wallingford Ave…