My mother just called and was so excited.  She went to a garage sale and found a beautiful Oriental rug that she purchased.  She has been looking for an Oriental rug in Chicago for a long time, but the prices in the stores have been too expensive for her.   She is living on her Social Security monthly payment and doesn’t have a lot of extra money to spend.  Every weekend she and her twin sister, Aunt Pat, go to every garage sale they can find.  They usually never come home with much but love to go to these sales just to meet people.  They spend a lot of time just going from one sale to the next.  She said this was the best garage sale they have ever been to.  Aunt Pat found some kind of vase that she wants to put in her family room.  Mom said the prices were really low as the people were moving out of town soon and wanted to get rid of a lot of stuff so they didn’t have to pack it up and take it with them.  They were moving with their daughter so they didn’t need all this stuff anymore.  Mom said Aunt Pat and her are planning to go back tomorrow to see what other deals they could pick up.