Photo of the Day: Garage Sale Shopping

We’re entering prime garage sale season, in between April showers. Kristine Khan and her son, Aydin Khan, 5, of Des Plaines, found some quality merchandise at a garage sale at a residence near Second and Hollywood avenues on Friday afternoon. Aydin consulted with his mother to select toys for his brother and sister.

Related: Check out all the photos of the day; the last one was about an amateur golfer at Semrow Driving Range.

You can add your garage sale to Patch’s free community calendar to let everyone know about it. Here’s . Patch makes life ridiculously easy in Des Plaines.

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Here’s . Households in the zip code 60018 may host sales for free from May 13 to May 15, and those in 60016 may host them from May 20 to May 22.

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