The first weekend of April is shaping up to be a perfectly sunny affair with not a shower in sight. If fighting cherry blossom crowds around the Tidal Basin isn’t in your forecast, here’s another outdoor option for Saturday: walking around Northwest Washington buying used junk from your neighbors. A Columbia Heights neighborhood association has organized a first annual Columbia Heights Community Wide Yard-sale & Spring Clean.

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So far, 23 sellers have registered with the day’s organizers and are marked on the above map, though we’re told we can expect several more to set up shop, too. Many sellers will be clustered around the intersection of 11th and Kenyon streets, where Wonderland Ballroom will offer free waffles and baskets of bacon, and nearby where “Kristen” and her housemates will offer kitchen items, furniture, and handmade African drums. Head down an alleyway off Sherman Street too find “Jeremy’s Backyard Blowout,” down to 13th Street to the “Loving Home for Wayward Children” (a five person group house), or over to Irving for “Victoria’s Not-So-Secret Sale,” where Victoria will be selling her used wares. No not those types of wares! Hopefully not.

The yard sales will go until around 1 p.m., or maybe even 4 p.m., or until there’s just a few vases, a blouse, and some VHS tapes left that get put out on the sidewalk in a cardboard box. Residents who don’t have a yard from which to sell things can set up shop at the park at Ogden and 14th. At the end of the day, misfit toys and other unsold or unwanted items can be donated at the Park Triangle plaza (across from DC USA) to a non-profit that helps people overcome homelessness.