**Peter Braun admires (we think?) Lee’s art finds at the 2026 Hollin Hills yard sale.**

The annual Hollin Hills Yard Sale, when we ritually gather to get rid of old stuff and acquire new stuff, took place on Saturday — and was maybe the biggest and best since the event was launched back in 2013. Some twenty-one sellers set up their tables in the Pool parking lot, and a grateful, bargain-hungry world responded in droves. The weather was fantastic (as long as you like your yard sales slightly chilled), the enthusiasm was infectious, and the stuff was … honestly, pretty cool.

**Gino Madrid parted with his personal storm trooper helmet**

Take, for instance, the 1960s George Nelson wall clock, which one quick-witted buyer snagged for $50. Or the beautiful (and heavy) porcelain sink that Friederike Ahrens lugged all the way back from China herself — but that didn’t work out for her bathroom reno. And, of course, there was Gino Madrid’s stormtrooper helmet from Star Wars, which he assured us was appropriate headwear for almost any Hollin Hills social occasion.

**Bargain! An original 1960s George Nelson clock**

As you’d expect, there was plenty of the usual yard sale fare — clothes and dishes and stuffed animals and so on — along with an alarmingly large selection of chain saws. Depending on your lifestyle, you could also go home with a Sesame Street sippy cup, a book of Czerny piano exercises, a spangly tiara that read “This is 50,” an antique African thumb piano, or a selection of snazzy midcentury Dansk candlesticks. And if you’d always dreamed of owning a multicolored polyester “glam wig,” this was your lucky day: one seller had three of them.

**Need an extra antler? Oby Ezeanolu has you covered**

Every piece had a story, of course, though the stories could sometimes be a little vague. Oby Ezeanolu was parting with a single deer antler that, she said, had seemed like a good idea when she bought it, but that now it was “time to let it go.” Adam Rozan had four of his intriguing artworks for sale, Gretchen Spencer had some jewelry she was de-Spencing with (sorry), and the always-stylish Mohra Gavankar was selling a pair of eye-catching running shoes guaranteed to make you the most colorful thing on two feet. (For the more aquatic sort of shopper, Jane Runnels was offering a pair of blue-and-yellow rubber flippers sure to wow ‘em at the pool next summer.)

**Fashionista Mohra Gavankar thinks you should wear these shoes**

The sellers had all stocked up on $1 bills and steeled themselves for the hagglers, but of course almost everything was going for a song — the objective for most was just to get stuff out of the house. And in a gesture of goodwill (or goodwill before the Goodwill), some sellers were even giving things away for free. One especially forlorn example was a three-piece Halloween toga costume (complete with cape and some kind of head-thing) whose packaging read, “It’s chic to be Greek.” No takers by the time we left, but who knows. De gustibus non disputandum est, as the children say.

Anyway it was all good fun — many thanks to Friederike Ahrens for organizing this enjoyable (and, we hope, profitable) morning, and to everyone who came and bared their innermost cabinets to the world. See you again next year!