8/21/2007

Antiques Road Show: Urbana, IL

One of the things that's been consuming my life a little bit over the past few days has been helping out with the preparation for a massive garage sale run by the University YMCA as a fundraiser for the Y and it's programs (which by the way are really cool: Amnesty International, Students for Environmental Concerns, Engineers Without Borders, and the like). Every May, we offer to collect everyone's shit as they're moving out of their dorms and apartments, and then we collect again in August. The idea is that we're keeping lots and lots of stuff out of the landfill, and we're also having a garage sale which is obviously the coolest.

The best part about volunteering is getting to look at all the great stuff that gets donated before all of the greasy college kids and quirky townies come in and ransack the place. Look at some of the stuff we found today!

a head in a box
(That's what she said.)

a guitar-shaped tin


a heavy-duty metal camel/llama of some sort


and this, my favorite so far, a creature

Kasey thinks it looks like Voldemort.


Sale starts Thursday if you're in town!

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