Lines of cars snaked through the Kingswood neighborhood Saturday as people dressed in hoodies and raincoats hunted for the best deals during the last day of the annual Kingswood Rummage Sale.
Nothing was off-limits: from baby clothing and kitchen wares to a never-worn size 8 wedding dress, and if someone made the right offer, a vintage red Mini Cooper.
What started off as a misty morning with patches of rain here and there soon turned to a downpour.
"We're just getting started," Lori Martinson, 54, said. "We try to get here as early as we can but weather this year is a hindrance."
She and her husband make the drive from Brookings so they can shop for their five grandchildren.
But the rain didn't stop families from walking down the streets with strollers in hand, hoods turned up and rainboots on.
"We didn't really care, rain or shine, we would be out in it either way," Kenton Welbig, 29, said.
He and his wife, Summer, along with their two children, make the drive from Colton for the rummage sale. They try to find winter clothes for their eldest daughter Laurel but sometimes, something unique catches their eyes.
"You go to places, you never really know what you're gonna get into, and then all of a sudden you see something that's like, 'Oh, boy. We might be here for 15-20 minutes rather than our one-minute round,'" he said.
Unique items weren't hard to find Saturday.
Shirley Steever, 70, sells handcrafted gnomes. Many were in magnet form, with local sports teams or holiday-themed hats, but some were as tall as a foot.
"I love gnomes and I don't even know where I came up with the idea of the refrigerator magnet," she said. "I try to make ones for every different holiday and try and come up with new ideas."
She sells her magnets in a three-car garage, which is also used by six other families to sell their used clothing items, or like her sister, wooden boards with phrases carved into them.
Every space of that garage was being used and was well organized, with boys and girls clothing on tables near each other, gnomes on another and DVD movies placed into boxes.
Since it was the last day, many garages had 50% off sales going on as a last-ditch effort to try and sell everything.
Other sellers said that despite the weather, the four-day long rummage sale had treated them well. Sonja Mentzer, 43, has been participating in the sale since her family moved into the neighborhood a few years ago.
"It's been very successful as a person putting on a rummage sale, so that's fun," she said, noting that many things that are put up for sale come from kids who are growing up and out of things. "It still has value, somebody else could use it."
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