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Saturday, July 17, 2004 

Garage Sales Are for the Clinically Insane

10 Days with My Grandma Would Drive you Crazy, Too

So I've been in C-bus for a week and half looking for a job. During this time I've been staying at my grandmothers house. Now, I love my grandmother... but she is certifably insane. I kid you not... the woman talks to herself, instead of getting a bunch of groceries for the week, she gets enough for a day or two just so we will have to go to a different store the next day.

This isn't the worst of it, though... oh no, not by far.

This woman gets up at 7.30 in the morning to go "garage sale-ing"

It's not just that she goes to garage sales that drives me nuts, its how incredibly cheap she will be at them. I'm talking about a woman who will haggle on the price of a pair of used tennis shoes marked for a dollar. She will scour all over the greater metropolitan Columbus area to find a 25 cent broken lamp.

Here's the kicker... my grandmother is loaded. She had a ton of stocks that she cashed out right before the market crashed a couple years ago... but you would never know it. She lives like it's the Great Depression and her entire livlihood (sp?) depends on finding a great deal on a peice of crap that's never going to get used.

So that's why I'm at home right now.... a week and a half of that has just about driven me crazy. Another couple days of that in a row and I might have started buying used clothes that don't fit because they were a dime a bag.

Corey "Where'd you get your suit from... the toilet store?" Spring

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  • I'm C.W. Spring
  • From Columbus, Ohio, United States
  • I'm a senior at Ohio State in Interactive Communications. I used to want to work in broadcasting right out of college, however, I've recently decided to throw that life plan on the backburner and focus on the greatest ambition I listed in my high school yearbook: "To change the world for the better." Broadcasting can wait for me.
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