ASSINIBOIA — June 7, an event was placed on the Town of Assiniboia calendar on the town website. It was the garage sales for the weekend. The post was open to everyone.
People were informed that if they wanted to register their address, they would incur no cost. They were to call, text, email or visit the Facebook page to add the pertinent information. Further information stated that a week before the sale weekend, a list of participating addresses and a map would be made available.
That weekend, 35 addresses were listed, separated by east or west side, followed by a map with locations marked in red. At one time, these ads were placed in the paper. Sale enthusiasts would sit with the paper and list where they wanted to go according to address, time open and time ended as well as the dates available. Your list would start with the earliest sale starting on Friday at the earliest time available, adding the same strategy for Saturday and Sunday.
The shopping would either start furthest away from home or nearest, unless you were the type to just enjoy wandering and aimlessly driving until you came upon a sale and stopped in. This was and still is made easy by the wildly coloured posters on most corner poles. Another sure sign of a sale is the brightly coloured balloons tied to anything available near the entrance.
With the construction on Center Street, the town’s calendar separating the east and west side addresses is considerably more helpful. A person can comb one entire side of town, then cross over to the other side where available and continue until all addresses have been exhausted.
With the sale season in full swing the town calendar will be busy until frost sets in or very soon after. Happy sale shopping, everyone.
