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A Garage Sale and a Contest!

Esteemed Contestants!

Thanks for being so patient!

I am happy to say I finally wrote down all the emailed answers and compared them to my master list of correct answers and I have the winners! I also now know why most mystery websites just draw names for contest winners. This was oddly complicated -- plus I had to revisit all of the garage sale anxiety I experienced with the actual sale! Next time, we figure out some clever way to draw names out of a vintage fedora!

The answers --

1. A or C or H
2. D
3. B
4. A or C or H
5. G
6. A or C or H
7. E
8. F

And the winner with only 3 incorrect answers?

Tom

And there were 3 more contestants who only had 4 incorrect answers so I am going to say they are tied for honorable mention!

Nancy
Carm
Bonita
Eileen

If you see your name here, and would like a piece of junk -- I mean, a fine item that went unsold at my garage sale -- please e-mail me your snail mail address and I will send you something. It will be lightweight! I will also e-mail the winners.

My thanks to everyone who entered. I was so pleased to see so many guesses -- and thanks to those contestants who charmingly annotated their answers. Rhonda, I'm talking to you!

And now -- for the sneak peek at Backstage Stuff (January 2011) -- Here's the cover (and author) -- We'll post the first chapter soon. (For anyone who missed it, the contest is below the Backstage Stuff photos.)

Sharon had a garage sale this past weekend and a friend, Diana Durkes, took these pictures "pre-opening." Business was brisk and lots of things sold. Since it was about 100 degrees in the shade, it was a tribute to the buying and selling spirit-- and now, in the cool of air-conditioning, here's a game.

To the 8 pictured items (the ones in the foreground), match the following words: Sold some, Sharon couldn't bear to sell and grabbed and brought back in the house, Sold Some, Unsold, Unsold, Sold, Gave Away to a Friend, Sold Some. (The aprons hanging in my kitchen window in the top photo? Not for sale.)

Below the photos are small versions of the words and photos to make it easier to match them up.

1		2		3		4
sold some A	Sharon couldn't bear to sell and grabbed and brought back in the house B	sold some C	unsold D	unsold E	sold F	gave away to a friend G	sold some H
5		6		7		8

Since the new book, Backstage Stuff, won't be out until January, I'll have to come up with a different prize for the the first three people who answer the quiz questions correctly. How about an unsold item from the garage sale? And if you lose the contest? How about TWO unsold items from the garage sale?

Stay inside an air conditioned space and read, my friends!

Send your answers to I'll post the answers and the winners on the front page in a few weeks.