As the classic saying goes: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
This was most certainly the case during Carver’s annual town-wide yard sale on Saturday, June 29. Residents looking to part ways with old belongings opened up shop in nearly 70 different spots across town as buyers hunted for future treasures.
Vendors, like Repeat Boutique Thrift Shop at the United Parish, put in hours getting ready for the town-wide sale.
“We’re exhausted,” Pam King, director of the thrift shop, said.
There were some great deals to be found during the yard sale, with prices much cheaper than buying the items at a traditional store. Additionally, some residents priced their merchandise in different ways.
For Jaime Troup, who lives in east Carver, she didn’t have predetermined prices for her yard sale.
Troup said that she wanted to get rid of the items she was selling, like old furniture and children’s items. So instead of formal pricing, Troup asked buyers to give her a price that they’d be willing to pay for the items.
“Give me a price,” Troup said she would ask.
Some vendors collected money for a cause.
While not technically a yard sale, Sue Cowan held a sale inside of her barn off of South Meadow Road called the “Giant Barn Sale.” The barn had many different items for sale, including holiday items, cranberry boxes, and tree stump side tables.
Perhaps fitting for the barn setting, the proceeds made by Cowan’s sale will go towards helping animals, particularly wood ducklings, she said.
Cowan rehabilitates around 300 ducklings each year as part of her non-profit organization, Cowan Critters, which she said she pays for out-of-pocket. All of the money made in the barn sale will go toward her efforts to rehabilitate and release ducklings back into the wild.
Cowan said that the turnout for the sale had been “awesome.”
In North Carver, Liz Essenheimer collected money for local food pantry Shane Gives Thanks.
According to Essenheimer, a lot of her items for sale were left unused after moving to Carver and into a smaller home.
As a newer resident, Essenheimer said that she was touched by Shane’s story when she first learned about it. Instead of pricing her sale, she asked buyers to donate what they deemed fit for the items.
“It seems like people do a lot around here for each other,” Essenheimer said.
Contact editor Nick Mossman at nick@carverjournal.com
Liz Essenheimer stands at her yard sale holding a donation box to Shane Gives Thanks food pantry. Photos by Nick Mossman 
There were multiple canopy tents set up at the United Parish by its Repeat Boutique thrift shop. 
This item, which “welcomed” buyers, was one of many sold outside of the United Parish. 
Jaime Troup sold stacks of movies and television shows at her yard sale. 
Troup also had children’s toys for sale at her yard sale. 
Sue Cowan’s “Giant Barn Sale” was, in fact, held inside a giant barn.
