Is My Trash Someone Else’s Treasure?

Reflections on Yard Sales and Give-Aways

Sandy Gold
Found In My Journal
4 min readAug 12, 2022

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Photo by Donatella D'Anniballe on Unsplash

We never had a yard sale growing up. We definitely grew up with hand-me-downs — clothes, toys, things that were new to us but not newly bought. And they always came from people we knew never random strangers.

Every year we donated a few bags of things to our temple’s rummage sale. Clothes we had outgrown…

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