My sister made a snap decision today to hold a mini yard sale tomorrow, and I will be adding some of my stuff to the sales floor. As a guy with an increasingly severe cash flow problem, yard sales now seem like a very good idea to me, where as when I had money…you would rarely find me anywhere near one.

I have a lot of books, many of which I have never actually read, like The Portable Nietzsche, and the huge two-volume paperback edition of The Travels of Marco Polo : The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition. After many, many years of owning yet not reading these works, I think I am now ready to let them go.

I also have an assortment of knickknacks that, while wonderful additions to my life when I bought them, are now of little meaning to me. My wooden (and damaged) Confucius no longer seems as quaint to me as it once did, and my full size flag of Korea…when am I ever going to use that?

Now might also be a good time to look through my CD collection, after all, there was only a very brief period in the early nineties when I (or anyone else, really) could tolerate Cibo Matto’s Know Your Chicken, although their music was recently featured in M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water:

I’m not a big fan of country western music, but this yard sale music video of comedian Dollar Bill Eckel struck my fancy:

Eckel’s song is apparently a parody of the trucker song Convoy by C.W. McCall.

This is a preview of an independent film called G-SALE. It looks like a really funny mockumentary:

Finally, before I go and try to figure out which pieces of my useless junk others might find useful, this comedy sketch was the funniest I could find on YouTube:

Cheers.

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