8 great (?) finds at the Glebe's annual garage sale

guest · 2017-05-27

The sun was shining and the sidewalks were bustling Saturday morning at the 31st annual Great Glebe Garage Sale.

Here are some of the unique and random things I found while taking a wander.

1. I started on Second Avenue, west of Bank Street, and quickly discovered this unique wall hanging.

This knitted wall hanging, $3, is my first discovery. Woman bought it at another sale. #GGGS #ottnews pic.twitter.com/3mzEjl3zLL

— Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) May 27, 2017

Evelyn Carleton’s daughter bought it at a previous garage sale. Not quite needle-point, not exactly cross-stitch, but something with yarn that clearly took someone with skill several hours to make.

Carleton was selling it for $3. All the proceeds were going to help her daughter keep the gas tank full as she travels across the country in a renovated school bus named Frieda.

2. I spotted this lemon zester a few blocks away.

“It could double as a backscratcher,” the friendly seller told me.

This lemon zester is awesome and could double as a backscratcher. Priceless. #GGGS #ottnews pic.twitter.com/XShE58mkFQ

— Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) May 27, 2017

Had it come with a matching lime spritzer, I would have been sold.

3. Twenty-five years after its release, k.d. lang’s Ingénue album remains an essential for music fans.

25 years after its release, guy on 2nd Ave let me have this for free bc he couldn't break a $20. #GGGS #ottnews pic.twitter.com/aI2JNm8Eau

— Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) May 27, 2017

Lang will almost definitely performs hits from it, including “Constant Craving” and “Miss Chatelaine” at her pair of shows at the National Arts Centre in September. Tickets aren’t cheap, but being in a room where she might sing “Hallelujah” is worth it.

The seller, by the way, had lots of music from the early 90s. The Tragically Hip, The Cranberries, Jane’s Addiction. I searched for Soundgarden, but came up empty-handed.

4. The Little Monsters among us would scream at a deal like this — 20 Lady Gaga-inspired fake nails for $2.

One set was gold-tipped while the other was bedazzled with tiny spikes.

Want your Bad Romance. #GGGS #ottnews pic.twitter.com/fUvTHeiqPc

— Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) May 27, 2017

The seller’s poker face suggested she wasn’t interested in haggling, so I kept moving.

5. On Fourth Avenue, I came across Mike Jowett’s quirky birdhouses.

Made from recycled lumber and hardware, they can either hang from a hook or sit atop a fence post. Each one is unique and sells for $55.

“It’s been a busy day,” he said, as crowds from nearby Bank Street spilled onto the sidestreet.

6. Tara Hogeterp didn’t expect a shoebox full of cassette tapes, including several mixed tapes she’d made herself as a teenager, would attract as much attention as it did.

New Kids On The Block, Amy Grant, Debbie Gibson, INXS and Wilson Phillips were all up for grabs. For free, whispered her daughter from underneath the cramped table, where she was hiding from the hot noon-hour sun.

A friend of mine hosts an annual dance party with one rule: cassette tapes only. He dusts off his tape deck and collection of tapes, so I’m sure he’ll be thrilled that I nabbed the Reality Bites soundtrack for him. You remember the 1994 film with Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller? The one about Gen-X angst. The one that made Lisa Loeb famous for five minutes. Yeah, that one. Classic.

As I was leaving, I spotted a New Kids VHS-video, which I’m pleased to report found a good home.

@mpearson78 Apparently it came to my house. pic.twitter.com/uGLyxk5Vzj

— Darlene McLeod (@UrbanSlowLife) May 27, 2017

7. The most expensive item I found for sale was Rod Sharp’s 2008 Mini Cooper.

The black convertible with heated leather seats has a measly 73,000 kilometres on the odometer.

“We’ve had a lot of people come and take a look,” he told me.

Sharp, however, politely declined my request to take the car for a test drive.

Rod Sharp is selling his Mini Cooper convertible. Most expensive item I've seen so far. #GGGS #ottnews pic.twitter.com/R1FLjD0QuX

— Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) May 27, 2017

8. We have work to do on our back garden at home, so the offer of four bags of cedar mulch for $12 caught my eye.

I handed over the cash and told the guy I’d be back to pick it up in a few hours.

After meeting up with my partner, we drove slowly down Second Avenue but none of the houses looked exactly like I remembered. We doubled-back. We drove down Third and Fourth, but no luck. I was pretty sure the house I was looking for was on Second, but, regrettably, I hadn’t written the address down and had to admit as much to Alain.

I can’t possibly be the only person who pays for something at the Great Glebe Garage Sale and never comes back to get it because I forgot the address, can I?!

Eventually, after some more circling around, we finally found the house. It was on Second Avenue, only west of Percy (where I had sworn I hadn’t gone).

By then, the couple were packing up their tables and had a good chuckle at my absent-mindedness. They even threw in some extra bags of cedar bark for free because it hadn’t sold yet.

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The Great Glebe Garage Sale, in photos:

Bargain hunters look for deals at the Great Glebe Garage Sale on Saturday, May 27, 2017.

Bargain hunters look for deals at the “Great Glebe Garage Sale” on Saturday, May 27, 2017.
(Patrick Doyle)

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