A Shoebox of Pens at a Garage Sale: How I Sort Treasure From Junk in Five Minutes
Ellen Ashford · July 28, 2026
My eyes go straight to the shoebox before I’ve even scanned the rest of a garage sale table. Taped shut, marker-scrawled, wedged under some card table between a dead clock and a stack of paperback thrillers — that’s the box I want. Last June I handed over three dollars for one labeled “PENS + STUFF” … Read more