Buddha's bargain basement

buddhist rummage sale. Image hosted on my Flickr site.

Tell people that the Zen Buddhist Temple is holding a rummage sale, and the jokes pretty much write themselves. I overheard a woman say to her boyfriend, who was checking out the stuffed animals, "Do you really need that? Unburden yourself." But as a connoisseur of thrift shops and rummage sales of all kinds, I can tell you that the College St. temple's regular sale (I think it's annual) is one of the best in the city. I picked up a nice leather jacket there yesterday. Come for the novelty, stay for the bargains, leave with a nugget of timeless wisdom:

watch your step. Image hosted on my Flickr site.