The Thousands

In recent years, I have become increasingly aware of my flagrant desire to consume. Books, records, clothes, inanimate objects for the home – you name it, I’ll buy it. Coupled with this deep-seated compulsion is a pervasive and irreconcilable inner turmoil, consisting equally of endless moral justification and serious financial woe. Thankfully, the Woollahra Garage Sale exists to appease my materialistic unrest.

Affectionately known as the Woollahra Junk Shop, this ramshackle establishment is in fact a weekly garage sale of curios, antiquity and well… junk. The offering varies from week to week but on any given Saturday you can find all manner of furniture, audio equipment, picture frames, bicycles, glassware and even the odd novelty toilet seat.

It does take a little persistence to search out the diamonds among the rough, and there is a lot of rough, but the results can be well worth the effort. My greatest acquisitions to date have included a vintage Marantz amplifier and turntable for a measly $20 and an enormous 17th Century bible, perfect for that impromptu exorcism, for a confounding $10.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.