Saturday was a national day of trash and treasure with 10,000 garage sales happening simultaneously around the country.
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The Garage Sale Trail is a council powered sustainability initiative to encourage recycling and is now in its sixth year.
More than 260 sales were registered across the Illawarra, Cindy Burton-Woods’ was one of them.
This is the first year she’s held a sale – a collaboration with her sister, mother and mother’s neighbour on Chalmers Street, Balgownie.
She said keen bargain hunters were at their door from 6am ready to rummage.
“My tins were the inspiration behind everything,” Ms Burton-Woods said of the dozens of vintage style biscuit tins she had piled up.
She’d been collecting them since the 1990s but after a kitchen revamp she decided it was time to let them go, hopefully to someone who will love them as much as she did.
Across the region homes opened their garages, community centres like Dapto Robbonwood Centre were filled to the brim with knick-knacks and even Nan Tien Temple was selling unwanted items.
Quirky bargains for sale included a Harley-Davison landline phone at Flinders, circus costumes in Coledale, a puppet theatre at West Wollongong and a collection of 80 bone handle knives in Wollongong.