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Believe me, Taps,
they're a lot more fun to attend than to host.
posted by
strat
on December 27, 2007 at 5:53 AM
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strat
Yard sale, garage sale, sale sale, none of that is in my vocabulary. Don't have them, don't want them, don't go to them, but I enjoyed reading your post. I have an aversion to stuff like that. This reminds me of the early years of my marriage back in the late 1950's. Hubby was from a country farm family and every Saturday was an auction at one farmhouse or another's barn and he used to drag me there. I think I bid on a crock once. I don't know why and I don't remember ever using it for anything. It sat in the basement for years.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 26, 2007 at 4:23 PM
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Ah, I thought it worked something like that, Will.
That's an interesting cycle, actually -- from yard sale to flea market to e bay and back to the house. That makes sense, in a really weird way, but then again, things that make sense in a weird way are the only ones worth making sense of, right?
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 1:44 PM
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It was all that, Kayzzaman!
Interesting didn't begin to describe it.
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 1:42 PM
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Aw, it ain't that bad, Naut --
Blackcat has it about right -- like hitting yourself in the head with a big stick for fun...
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 1:41 PM
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I would do that, BC, except we don't have a Goodwill close by.
Otherwise, it would have been named Strat-Will or Good Strat by the time I was finished with my deliveries...
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 1:41 PM
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Strat, I never wanted to hold a yard sale. I was on the other side of the
tables. Enter the Flea Marketeer, Me. Believe it or not yes Cells and walkie talkies, drive bys and stalkers were always out in force. You snooze, you lose. We would buy the items for as little as possible, load up all our goodies and take them to the Flea market , up the price, sell them to e-bayers, whom would up the price, sell the goods, most of which were sent all over America and other parts of the free world. A guy who was in a certain nostalgic mood and missing an Item from his early days which his wife or other family member sold at the yard sale, would spot the item on e-bay, lay good money down to buy the item once more and, thus the circle of life was complete. (Insert soundtrack of Lion King 1 here)
Royalties and sales tax not included. .
IR Will
posted by
I-R-William
on December 26, 2007 at 12:37 PM
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Oh, how interesting
posted by
Kayzzaman
on December 26, 2007 at 9:35 AM
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Strat
After these revelations I shudder at what’s in store for me! You see, I am being squeezed between Scylla and Charybdis, otherwise known as a rock and a hard place, Need and Fear! The need to have a yard sale, and the fear of one. The need is evident every time I enter my garage, an almost daily occurrence; the fear, though present for a long time, has just increased exponentially after reading this. Maybe I’ll just call in the Army of Salvation and have them save me...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 26, 2007 at 9:12 AM
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I'd rather bring the stufft to goodwill and take the tax writeoff! Yard
sales are alot like hitting yourself in the head with a stick for fun. LOL
btw... my future mother-in-law buys ALL of her Christmas gifts in the few days after Christmas for next year. I'm sure she's out shopping now as we speak. 
posted by
-blackcat
on December 26, 2007 at 8:36 AM
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Yeah, that kid cracked me up, Ari!
He's either going to run for president or become the CEO of something like CarMax.
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 6:31 AM
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LOL, this made me laugh out loud as I can relate to just about everything
you wrote, and that kid, wow, he's got it going on! LOL
posted by
Ariala
on December 26, 2007 at 6:23 AM
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Oh, no doubt about it, Offy.
On all accounts!
posted by
strat
on December 26, 2007 at 6:09 AM
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strat...that kid knew exactly what he was doing....hahahaha
I love going to yard sales, I hate having them. It is true however, there are bargains galore...and yes I suppose next year's Christmas list could be filled by a stop here and there...lol
posted by
Offy
on December 26, 2007 at 6:00 AM
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