BY KEN FRANCIS, STAFF WRITER
June is a popular time for garage sales, and Clearwater’s citywide garage sale took place last Saturday.
Unfortunately for those eager to part with, or find treasures, the weather didn’t cooperate. There were just a handful of “sale” signs on street corners, probably because of the heavy overcast.
“It’s supposed to start raining about two o’clock,” said Linda Dahlin, who was sitting by her garage on Porter Street at about 10:20 a.m. looking up at the sky.
She and her husband Lloyd began setting up their tables with lots of items at about 6 a.m. And they had all different kinds of treasures - tools, clothing, rakes, shovels, cans of paint and lots of miscellaneous items.
“We’ve been going to auctions all winter,” she said.
Their driveway had a steady stream of people all morning, and things were priced low to make a sale.
Lloyd lowered the price on a plastic one-gallon gas can for a customer from a dollar to $0.75.
“It doesn’t have the cap,” he said.
A few minutes later, the raindrops started falling. It was 10:30.
“I’ll take $4 for that ladder,” he told the same customer. “I had it marked $10, but you bought that gas can.”
He made the sale.
A few blocks away on Spring Street, Angie Bell and Paula Ergen had a stream of customers at their multi-family sale.
“We have a little bit of everything - clothes, household items, specialty items, books DVDs, exercise equipment and kids stuff,” said Bell.
They had set up early, too - about 7 a.m. But they knew it was only a matter of time before the skies opened up and chased away their potential customers.
But they weren’t about to start bringing everything in and putting in back in the house.
“Whatever doesn’t sell - it’s all getting donated,” said Ergen.
