We have organised this annual Garage Sales in our estate since 2002. This year, we invited residents from our neighbour's estate too. NEA set up a booth, exhibiting on Anti-littering & Recyling with Used Cooking Oil Collection.
Instead of the usual popcorn & nuts, we arranged for the durian van from a plantation in Johor to come in. But his durians were not as great as previous years with the many rainy spells recently. We also arranged for an ice-cream van to come in too.
The garage stall vendors came down early at 6pm to `chop' a lot & quickly setup. Most of them were selling their old books, toys, clothes... A few stalls were displaying new items. A member was clearing her babies' products & another hawking helum balloons. The most expansive item is a 1-year old BMW Z7 asking for $135K. A `new' bookshelf was sold at $10 with assisted delivery to the new owner's home.
It had rained the 2 times when I had a stall so now I avoided booking stall & do barter trade. My daughter is interested in a battery-opeated stunt car. Knowing that this stall owner has 3 young kids, he agreed to my request in swopping my whole lots of books with the toy.
We had an enjoyable night & times fly. There was a good crowd & I dun realise it was closing times till I saw the vendors packing up. The weather was great. After the event, residents are asking when is the next garage sale.
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