One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

This idiom can certainly apply to Ripon’s annual City-Wide Yard Sale on Saturday.

About 100 or so homes within city limits are signed up to sell everything from  clothes, baby items, house wares, furniture, electronics, outdoor items, appliance and toys.

Those in search of specialty items – antiques, bicycles, and even cars, boats and trailers, for example – can pick up a map to locate these particular yard sales at Ripon City Hall (259 N. Wilma Ave.), Schemper’s Ace Hardware (150 N. Wilma Ave.) and Save Mart (1453 Goodwin Dr.).

“The yard sales do help in promoting our recycling program,” said Sarah Wever, who is the longtime yard sale coordinator for Ripon. “It keeps people from throwing their old stuff in the city landfill.”

Ripon has two such events. The city-wide yard sale takes place at the various homes in Ripon on the second Saturday of October while the community yard sale takes place at one central location in the spring, according to Wever.

The recycling drop-off site is the old Nestles parking lot on Industrial Avenue.

That’s been the longtime location for the City of Ripon, Ripon Unified and Recology Recycling. This program benefits the local elementary school sites.

It’s here that folks can drop off their cardboards, newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, Styrofoam #6, glass, plastic containers and electronic waste – televisions, radios, batteries, copiers, phones, computers, monitors, and printers.

Ripon City Hall, the Ripon Memorial Library and the Ripon Police Department have electronic bins for household batteries.

More information can be obtained by calling 209-599-2151 or emailing yardsale@cityofripon.org.