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One Man’s Junk is Another Man’s Treasure
The village vide grenier had plenty of both
Vide means empty, grenier is attic; put them together and you get a vide grenier. The idea is to empty your attic, garage, spare room, closets, or wherever you put stuff that you’ll probably never use again and hope that just maybe, someone will want to buy it.
Village vide greniers are annual events this time of year —part of spring cleaning, which I suppose some people do. Don’t ask. I’m good at accumulating, less so at disposing of . . . but I did manage to restrain myself this time and came away empty-handed.
After several days of heavy rain, the overflow from the dry stream bed — where Fred nearly met his demise last week — hadn’t completely drained, so the event was rerouted to various spots around the village. Undeterred, the bargain hunters arrived before I’d even had my first morning coffee.
