Garage sale aficionado, Yumi is also a Presenter on “The Circle on Network Ten & “Max on Foxtel and Austar. 

What’s the best thing about garage sales?

I love garage sales because they’re still a bastion of the genuine bargain. But lately I have come to love them because they create a neighbourly spirit; you meet people who live local to your area whom you might never have laid eyes on before!

In my neighbourhood, baking cupcakes to give out at garage slaes seems very fashionable, so now the neighbours try to outdo each other with the cupcakes and the emphasis has shifted away from their junk!

What’s the best thing you’ve ever bought at a garage sale?

I bought some David Bowie vinyl singles that I still cherish to this day. The other day my daughters found a garage sale run by cute Asians who collected cute Asian candy and toys and kept them pristine, untouched and completely germ-free. AMAZING, CAN YOU PICTURE MY GIRLS’ FACES?

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen at a garage sale?

Someone in Bondi trying to charge $28 for a second-hand T-Shirt and telling me, “It’s the coolest T-shirt in Bondi”! What an asshole!

What goes on in your garage?

Lady madness! Because we’re an all-female household (me and my two daughters) our garage is choked with dolls, barbies, teddy bears and a very lady-like tool kit filled with lady-sized screwdrivers, wrenches and hammers (which I can use, thank you). 

Yumi lives in Melbourne.