Buy My Yardsale! I never, ever, ever want to have another yard sale in my life! Every year we hold a yard sale. We usually make a few thousand dollars over a three day weekend but the work is backbreaking and simply not for me. The problem is that we never sell everything in the yardsale so there is always a lot of stuff left over. During the course of the year more and more gets added to the pile in anticipation of the next one. But I hate holding a yardsale and I never again want to have another. So this year, instead of having a yardsale, I'm auctioning off the entire yardsale on EBay. The starting bid is $100 and I guarantee that there is much much more value in this. On this blog, for the next seven days I will provide a growing list of some of the stuff in the yardsale, it will be a teaser to show you some of the cool stuff that we have accumulated because we could not live without it or because it came along with something else that we couldn't live without. I can't possibly list everything but I will provide you with a glimpse - as if you were driving by and trying to decide whether to stop. The two requirements for bidding on this "treasure trove" is that you must pick it up - shipping costs would just be astronomical and you must take everything. I never want to see any of it again. Includeed in this yardsale are things like a Igbu african mask from Nigeria, 2 oil paintings that hung in my wife's mother's home for her entire life, Old tools, a turntable a flat panel 19" computer monitor, antique slide rules and much more. Every day until the end of the auction I will add more information about what's in my yardsale in hopes that it will encourage you to bid it up.

Vermont National Guard Framed Photo 1915. This item alone is worth the starting bid price! Large format photo of the Vermont National Guard taken in 1915, apparently with Governor Gates. The writing on the bottom of the image says: "1st Infantry VNG in camp Governor Gates Aug 2-11, 1915" set aside captions "No3" by-line: Photo by McAllister Burlington (maybe Bennington)

Several very interesting old books are included in our yardsale. What looks to be a first edition of the Courtship of Myles Standish and other poems by Longfellow was purchased at least 20 years ago for 18 dollars. I don;t know if the value has increased or decreased but the price is written on the inside of the cover. Also a 3 volume edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery.

An antique auctioneers gavel, a handmade musical instrument, possibly from africa though we are not sure, along with a gourd maracca.

While computers are a dime a dozen nice monitors are more expensive. a 19 inch I-INC monitor is included in the yardsale.