It used to be the Calgary Herald, you'd go to the classifieds and plot out your garage sale map, they had the garage sales organized by date and quadrant of the city. But they've changed it, "reorganized" it so that date and area of the city are no longer organizable fields, address is optional, clicking on the "read more..." link in the hopes of finding an address leads to a "Page not found Error". It's been like this for the whole season, entirely not working.
Now the Calgary Herald classifieds are a paid service. You pay them, they advertise your sale, product or event. But this is ridiculous, you can find nothing and certainly nothing in order on their site. So I search around and find other sites - Kijiji, Craigslist, Calgaryarea.com, all sites where you can advertise your garage sale for free. And this, apparently, is where everyone else is advertising their garage sale as well. It's more work, they're organized by date and city only, you have to make your own map to the highlights, but at least the information is there.
This weekend is the first "Big" weekend of sales. By which I mean there are more sales than I can make it to, hope to make it to, in various neighborhoods. There's the Bethany Chapel sale, there's a neighborhood sale in Scarborough, there are others....
And so I make my map and head out on Saturday morning.....
A day full of treasures. Stack of CD's, new, perhaps 30 in the stack, $2.00. $10.00 for miscellaneous Pokemon cards for my daughter (a stack about 6 inches thick). Books - Penguin guide to Shakespeare, Monologues for young actors, Calvin & Hobbes, for the boy, an old rotary phone, bright red ("Mr. President....It's the Kremlin calling.....") as well as a loose red "reset"button...("The Missiles have been launched..."). A small Fireking green jadeite bowl with blue butter dish, a hallmarked solid silver candlestick. And the highlight, a 16 mm movie camera from the 50's with telephoto lense. I need a tripod.
All in all a good day.