The Million Dollar Garage Sale Find

I spent three thousand dollars on a lightsaber from a garage sale and my wife

thought I lost my mind. Turns out it was a screen used prop from

Empire Strikes Back. The guy selling it had no clue what he had,

just cleaning out his uncle's storage unit who worked at Lucasfilm in the eighties.

I got it authenticated and nearly fainted when the appraiser told me it could fetch

over two hundred thousand at auction. That rusty piece of aluminum sitting in my garage

for six months changed everything. Now I hunt estate sales every weekend because someone's

forgotten treasure could be your retirement fund. The stories these props carry are