{"id":903,"date":"2011-07-22T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2011-07-22T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:10:57","slug":"outsiders-snatch-up-stapletonians-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Outsiders Snatch Up Stapletonians \u201cJunk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Last weekend\u2019s garage sale drew in thousands of people from outside the Stapleton community. The outsiders were in search of deals on furniture, clothes, electronics, and any and all things baby. They came in droves from West Aurora and even from as far away as East Aurora. You know what they say, \u201cone man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s treasure,\u201d and Stapleton treasure was collected by the ton.<!--more-->\n\u201cWe were selling a tube TV,\u201d said resident Doug Schwab. \u201cSeriously. A tube TV. And we sold it for $3.\u201d\nOther residents sold golf clubs from the early 1970\u2019s ($1\/club), couches from college that most recently were used as a springboard for children in the unfinished area of the basement ($10), a non-working lawnmower from 1987 ($15), and even some men\u2019s old tee shirts ($1\/each).\n\u201cWe were going to take all of these items to Goodwill anyway, this just enabled us to have them picked up, and make some extra money,\u201d said North Central Park resident Gable Fox.\nThe Stapleton garage sale has long been a big success, and an easy way for residents to throw all of their old stuff in the yard in hopes someone will come by and express an interest in it.\u00a0 \u201cWe made no plans for the yard sale until that morning,\u201d said Katie Walsworth. \u201cWe literally were grabbing things and saying, \u2018do we like this,\u2019 and if we didn\u2019t, we whipped it into the front yard.\u201d\nThe Stapleton garage sale was reported to have generated over $3 million in non-taxable sales for Stapleton residents, which includes sales of items as well as refreshments.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-9","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}