


     The Last Resort Home Show

                                                  By Gary Bryant

          
          We all have acquired things that defy description.  Those
     unique artifacts of our personal lives that are  just too detailed
     to be portrayed accurately in a three  line ad when it comes time
     to part with them.   For example, you might have tried your best to
     put  some distance between you and your grandfather's steam driven
     chain saw, but nobody will buy it.  

          Nobody but  nobody can see the historical value it has come to 
     possess.  How do you describe the elegance of a steam  driven chain
     saw? How do you do it in a three line ad?  You simply can't.     

          The problem arises as to how to rid yourself of  those
     interesting but uninspiring  items that have been  collecting in
     your garage.  You realize that the only  way you will sell this
     thing of yours is if some one  sees it,  for some one special to
     fall in love with it  and hopefully, take it home!  You might just
     have to  have  the Last Resort Home Show...  
          
          Stick the thing in the front yard with a sign on it.   If 
     you live in apartment 521, five floors from  the nearest traveled 
     road, with your domicile facing  the alley, you may have to 
     improvise.  For the rest of  us, however, simply using masking tape 
     to place a  home-made For-Sale sign on your commodity  may be all  
     that is necessary to attract the right party to Uncle Leonard's 
     genuine Argentine brass bunk bed. 

            Personally, I have sold two cars, a go-cart, a  child's
     swing set and a picnic table just by dragging  them out to the end
     of the driveway.  Go ahead and try  it.  You'll have your great
     grandmother's Tyrolian  Regurgitation Retro Recliner in somebody
     else's garage in no time!


