yard sale snob

I have become a snob. It is surprisingly easy to be snobbish about someone else's crap. For example, I can simply drive by a potential yard sale to determine its stop-worthiness. As Nancy has mentioned elsewhere on this blog, we often travel with children, and it is not a small deal to unbuckle car seats, get jackets on, have snacks ready, make sure children will be far away from the road, etc.
Today the Estates at Plum Hill advertised a 25 family yard sale. 25! (Did I mention I was solo today, as both Nancy and Samantha are out of town? AGAIN. You get the impression they would rather visit their family than yard sale. But I digress.) The lovely-sound Estates at Plum Hill (is it really a hill filled with plum trees? Do plums grow on trees?) was a new community of simmilar-looking houses crowded onto teeny tiny lots with no mature landscaping and lots of vinyl siding. I lived in such a neighborhood in Dover, DE, long before I discovered the wonder of older houses. I have since grown to despise plastic, and vinyl siding, to me, represents all that is bad about plastic consumption. Even though my 1906-built house in covered in mostly vinyl siding, I overlook it because I am a hypocrite. Anyway. The Estates at Plum Hill (note: not a hill or plum in sight), to judge from the items for sale, is geared towards young families who don't like antiques. The sales were remarkably the same, much like the houses. Baby toys, baby clothes, breast pump items, baby apparatuses, and cheap, not-well-made furniture. Not my style at all. I parked and walked briskly from sale to sale buying nothing.
On the way back I stopped in the lovely old neighborhood (bungalows prevailing!) made of McKinley/McKlintock/Garden Streets in East Belleville, by Carlyle Avenue. A wonderful little sale was to be had in which I bought 6 pieces of boy clothing for $1.00. Alas, that would be my only sale of the day.
No personal interest stories, no pictures, no puppies. Overall it was disappointing, but everytime I go alone it is. Next week we should be back to the trifecta of yard sale perfection with the return of Nancy and Samantha.