By Angel Perkins Editor
Most people choose to hold their garage,  yard or porch sales once, maybe twice a season to rid their homes from their accumulative excess. Suzie McIntosh, however, has an accumulation that requires a larger, open space that can hold all her new and used items for sale.

“It’s just too much to haul it all out and back again,” the Tippecanoe resident said. “I thought if I set it up like a shop, I could be open more and have things set out nicer.” McIntosh used to sell her multitudes of merchandise from her garage on Old U.S. 30 at the west end of town, but has since moved and now rents out the home and garage on that property.
With a little help from family she set up tables and glass cases to display her wares in her building in back of the Bourbon News-Mirror office at 208 N. Main St. Inside, thrifty shoppers can find greeting cards, curtains, knick-knacks, dish and canister sets, salt and pepper collections, teapot collections, canister sets, housewares, pictures and frames, books, some antiques and a wide variety of religious effects.
Among other things McIntosh sells collectible items such as snow globes, Avon decanters, plates, Cherished Teddies, Snow Village, several brands of porcelain dolls and Golden Goose merchandise. And if you look closely, you may even spot a (novelty) talking fish.
“Most of the prices will be marked,” McIntosh said. “I just have too much. I hate to get rid of some of this but I don’t have the space I used to, and look at it all!” She and her husband Jim and their seven children moved to Bourbon from Warsaw in 1979.
Her children have since spread out, moving to the surrounding area  to far as South Carolina. McIntosh formerly owned the Family Restaurant in Tippecanoe. The indoor garage sale will be ‘open’ to shoppers Tuesdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.