"Garage Sale Susan" is a nickname for the endearing Rhode Island native Susan Goldberg, who is seemingly always on the search for unusual treasures. As a young girl her eye for collecting sometimes left her parents concerned, as she adorned her bedroom with an array of sock monkeys, Partridge Family items, and old sepia-toned photos of unidentified people and their dogs.

A freshman student of Emerson College at the early age of 16, Susan's reputation for unique décor extended to the dorm room she transformed to resemble a set from the film Pillow Talk. Her later years in Boston working in local cable television and her many travels around the world only broadened a love of the eclectic. Susan's favorite find over the years remains an eighteenth-century candelabra found in a funeral home in Amsterdam.

Now a resident of Los Angeles for the last 15 years, Garage Sale Susan enjoys tooling around Southern California in her red 1953 Chevy pick-up truck (purchased on eBay) searching for "pre-owned treasures."

Her 1920s Spanish-style home in the Hollywood area is a showcase of her varied collections of reverse-glass paintings, iron dog banks, chalkware carnival animals, and hundreds of original wooden "salty and peppys," among dozens of other wonderful one-of-a-kind items.