Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Save the Date, Seattlites: June 4, 2011 - the Renton Stop and Swap is back!




This is a garage sale gone wild, except that everything is FREE!  If you have extra crap, or need more, this is the event for you.  You can just unload it and leave - there's no setting up a table to hock your wares.

Last year, I got a beautiful, solid wood, hand-painted room divider, a nice chest of drawers, Mom got a really ugly chair that she loves (which is probably going BACK to the S&S this year), and I can't remember what Lou got.  Tools?  Not sure.  I know that we had to make two trips in the Land Rover (RIP Salty Bob) because we snatched too much stuff.

If you want to know more about it, here's a link to the City of Renton's webpage on the S&S.  Ignore the date - it was for last year, but I just confirmed the date for this year over the phone with the coordinator.

http://rentonwa.gov/living/default.aspx?id=24324

Have fun, reuse, and recycle!

1 comment:

  1. Cool. Can't remember at all what I got. I don't think anyone's gonna want that chair...

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