It’s that time of year when some people look at their garage and think, “I have too much stuff,” and an assortment of clothes, old cookware, and even a Santa playing a saxophone get dragged to the front lawn.

The first annual Santa Barbara Community Yard Sale was held throughout the city on Saturday, pulling in more than 100 residents looking to sell an assortment of items they collected over the years.  

“We thought it was a great idea,” said Robin Sager, who learned about the event through a notice in her water bill.

The city of Santa Barbara asked sellers to register. The city also developed an interactive map that showed where different sales were located.

Sager was selling a variety of items, including car parts that her husband had collected and pieces from her prized collection of Christmas items, which she called a “disease.”

The majority of the items featured Santa Claus. Sager said the items she was selling are duplicates or versions that she thought were too modern.

“When you collect, you have a tendency to get older and older (styles),” she said.  

Across different yards, many of the items sold during the event were common household items, like old electronics or books.

Other items included an antique Civil War campaign chest with secret compartments, and a large beer stein that plays music when wound up and was purchased from a previous yard sale.  

Some sellers, such as Maria Gomez and her husband, John Jones, were looking to get rid of bigger items. Along with old clothes and glassware, the couple was hoping to sell a full pool table, complete with cue balls and sticks, for a low $60.

Even though Gomez likes the idea of the community yard sale, she said that she wished that there had been more time to advertise it. She and her husband got their signs from the city on Tuesday, and some of her neighbors did not put them up until a day before the event.

The couple tried to advertise more on their own by putting up extra signs to encourage more traffic. But she hopes there is better advertising if the city brings it back in the future.

“It’s all new, so we’ll see how it goes,” Gomez said.

In another location, Cali Hathaway and her mother traveled from Ojai to attend the event and see what was for sale. Hathaway said that yard sales and thrift shops were a common bonding experience for her family, and she comes from a long line of women who love yard sales.

Even though she usually goes thrifting on Saturday with her grandmother, Hathaway said she thought this would be a good activity for Mother’s Day weekend.

Hathaway said she liked the idea of the community day event and said it was exciting.

“Everyone’s in a good mood. The vibe is right, and everyone is pricing to sell. It’s cool when the community is part of it,” she said.