About half an hour after they opened their garage doors, many of the items Kim and Paul McDougall put out for sale at their Murrayville home were sold.

鈥淗alf of the stuff was gone,鈥� Kim said.

鈥淲e had so many people all lined up to come in. It was great.鈥�

Proceeds of the McDougall sale were going to the horse rescue service, which was also accepting donations at the Saturday, June 5 event.

It was the eighth annual Murrayville community garage sale, which, technically, would have been the ninth, if it wasn鈥檛 for the pandemic that forced its cancellation last year.

Organizers Chris McGill and Miquelle O鈥機onnor, of McGill Realtors, ran out of maps to hand out early on and had to print out more.

鈥淟uckily, our office is across the street,鈥� McGill explained.

About 150 maps were run off, and that number doesn鈥檛 account for people who downloaded the map online, O鈥機onnor noted.

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About 50 households registered to take part in the community garage sale.

鈥淲e had reports it鈥檚 crazy busy,鈥� McGill commented.

By the time the two were taking down their awning near the five corners intersection in Murrayville, they had just one map left, and it was picked up just before they left by a late-arriving bargain hunter.

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O鈥機onnor thinks there was a lot of pent-up interest in the garage sale.

鈥淎 lot of people purging their closets,鈥� she laughed.

It didn鈥檛 hurt that the weather was near-perfect, she added.