This weekend is the town-wide yard sale

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One of my least-favorite weekends of the year. So much traffic, people parking part-way on my lawn (we don't have curbs), people blocking my driveway, etc. It was even worse when we had 2 cats that went outside because I was afraid that they would be hit by cars. That was always a fear but it was increased exponentially on yard sale weekends when so many more went down our usually-quiet street. I finally started putting them on lockdown like I would do around Halloween because I just didn't want to take any chances. We are having people over on Sunday for football. The good news is that the 2nd day is always more quiet so there should be less traffic and enough space for all of our friends/family to park on the street. The funny thing is that the people 2 houses down have a huge competition-style smoker and they advertise and sell barbecue (pulled pork, brisket, "pig candy") both days of the yard sale. We will be firing up OUR smoker on Sunday for ribs, turkey breast, and meatloaf so it will be like dueling smokers. The block will smell VERY good. The traffic will pick back up on Sunday evening. That's when everyone puts all the crap that didn't sell to the curb for the bulk garbage pickup the next day and you get the scavengers and cheapskates who drive through town looking through people's crap to see if there is anything worth taking. Yard sale weekend is definitely not one of my favorites.