Shocking Find

John got up at his usual rooster crowing hour to hit the garage sales on Saturday. While driving around, he found a sign for a sale that was not advertised. He drove up to a large, old home at 7 a.m. The people who were running the sale saw him waiting and let him and his buddy into the house. Let me stress that John is not one of those rude people who knock on the door early. He hates when people do that at sales. It was just a lucky shopping day. The sale didn't officially start until 9 a.m., so they had 2 hours of shopping by themselves. The house was filled with boxes of old stuff and the attic had been untouched for years. John was there for at least 4 hours and came home looking like Pig Pen. He found some fantastic things, like old toys, comics, a 1939 NY World's Fair wooden cigar box, old books and catalogs, several goodies for me, a pair of Norman Bel Geddes beds, and tons more that I have not even seen yet. His buddy only buys military things and he also scored. Let me add that the prices were dirt cheap.

He also purchased some old medical things, like an 1890 pill box, a skull, and a shock machine from the Montrose Hospital in Houston. I have never heard of that facility, so I'll have to do a little research. As for the pills, I'll have to take my time and clean it out because it's filthy. It has two rows of meds on each side, many with the pills still there. The 80 year old gent who owned the house told John that he once had a neighbor who was a doctor and he had given him all the old medical things.


So for all you junkers out there, be sure to drive through old neighborhoods on the weekend and look for posted sale signs. You might just come across one that was not advertised and get a big advantage over the other shoppers by being first in line.