Stuff for Sale
Florence is home to a community-wide garage sale this weekend (9/12-9/14) sponsored by the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce.
Customers shop at Jamaica Standiford’s garage sale on 9th St. at the annual Florence Community-Wide Garage Sale on Friday, September 12, 2025. The three-day event has more than 50 garage sales spread around town and runs through Sunday. Standiford was selling merchandise left over from the Reedsport Pharmacy, which she owned until closing it a couple of years ago. The merchandise has been in storage ever since, and she decided it was “Time to thin the herd.”
People who think they have too much stuff connected with people who wanted more stuff on the first day of the Community-Wide Garage Sale on Friday, September 12, 2025. The Florence Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event. Hard copies of a map with the locations of the sales – there are more than 50 listed – are available at the chamber office at 290 Route 101 or online:
Ilka Archer wiped down a blue glass vase before placing it on a table for sale for $6 musing, “Stuff sells better when it’s nice and clean.” She lives in a small cottage that she completely renovated at 4614 Falcon Street. Archer lost her home in the 2018 Paradise Fire in California. She moved to Florence a few years ago and said she needs to downsize for her new small home. Sarah Little moved in with her boyfriend about four years ago, combining their belongings in what she described as a “tiny house” at 1967 29th St.
Both are looking to make more room. Archer said she recently saw a floor lamp for sale that she liked, and then realized she didn’t have any place to put it.
Buyers were out looking, not always sure for what. Rhonda Johnson of Port Orford drove a couple of hours to make a day of the sales. Wayne Christian bought three pocket knives because, “I just like them,” he said. Sarah Little said people showed up at her house at 7 a.m. while she was still setting items out for sale. She told every customer on Friday that they should come back on Saturday for new stuff that she hadn’t put out for sale yet.
Al Anderson and Barkley wait for Anderson’s wife, Donna, who was checking out the stuff for sale on 29th St. Anderson said he was not a garage sale enthusiast. While Barkley just barked.
Sarah Little and her partner Jeffrey Templar catch their breath even as they continue to put out new items at their garage sale on 29th St. “I live in a tiny house,” Little said when asked why she was having a garage sale.
Wayne Christian of Toledo, Oregon, picked out three knives to take home from Mike Guggenmos’ garage sale on 34th St. Guggenmos said he runs a security business and has confiscated boxes of knives from attendees to festivals and other events over the years.
Winter Jewel Snowsong, 11, reads the fifth book in the Warriors first series, “Warriors A Dangerous Path,” at a garage sale at 678 Siano Loop while her mom helped a friend with the sale.