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ΠHappy holidays sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st

posted by BC-A on December 29, 2010 at 12:27 AM | link to this | reply

Taps
OOps!  I didn't want you to think that I only read you so that you would return the compliment, so I decided to read and comment only - sorry about that Taps

posted by johnmacnab on December 19, 2010 at 9:10 AM | link to this | reply

I came to read you but there is nothing new.  Oh well, I read this one again and wished for more.  Merry Christmas you old Scotch sweetie.  Blowing you a Christmas kiss. 

posted by TAPS. on December 19, 2010 at 9:04 AM | link to this | reply

dizzilizzi
Boot sales were the thing in the UK if I remember rightly dizzilizzie.  I went to one once, and that was enough for me.  There is a different point of view in Canada.  Yard sales, and auctions are accepted inasmuch as nothing, and I mean nothing, gets dumped.  If you don't want something you 'put it to the roadside' for someone else to pick up and use.

posted by johnmacnab on November 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM | link to this | reply

Straightforward

They certainly do tell a story straighforward.  Some auctions are amazing in the depth of their items; auctions from book collectors, crystal and glass collectors, art collectors and etc.  I enjoy the interaction between the clientele, especially when  see two people meet who greet each other civilly but I know that one hates the other for being a competitor.

The eeriest type of auction is the Tag sale which is held in the home of the people who have either moved into a 'home' as mentioned by Pat_B, or who have moved into the great beyond.  I try hard not to help Ell with those as I find it very creepy to prowl through the items - the obviously greatly loved items -of the departed.

posted by johnmacnab on November 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM | link to this | reply

Pat_B

Not only an announcer, pat - some auctions have catalogues and online bidding as well.  I pity the poor sod that gets landed with this house after we've moved to the home.  We were talking about this yesterday, how I was cautioned when I was younger that I was allergic to cats, dogs, house dust, and practically everything else.  "Move into a tent in a corn field and buy a horse," was the Doc's advice.

That is why i live in an old, old house that makes its own dust and with a dog that makes even more dust.  Not only that, we have two rooms upstairs that are filled with 'antiques' (a synonym for 'junk.') that grind out their own 60 year old dust particles.  And Ell wonders why I sniffle??

posted by johnmacnab on November 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply

TAPS
Some auctions are interesting, Taps, but most are boring.  For instance there is another really interesting auction coming up this Saturday - interesting to Ell, that is. Me?  I think I'll be absent from that one.  I am slightly 'auctioned' out.

posted by johnmacnab on November 30, 2010 at 9:25 AM | link to this | reply

I'm afraid I don't. I've been to a couple of flea markets in other countries and that was quite interesting.

posted by dizzilizzi on November 30, 2010 at 3:12 AM | link to this | reply

Even if there isn't much stuff that interests you, the auctions,
particularly yard sales do tell a story.

posted by Straightforward on November 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM | link to this | reply

Auctions, to me, are yard sales with an announcer.
I know people who'd rather go to auctions and yard sales than anything. It becomes a kind of sport. But I don't go. At this stage, I should be holding an auction, getting rid of a number of things that are just catching dust and waiting for me to move to "the home."

posted by Pat_B on November 29, 2010 at 5:02 AM | link to this | reply

Auctions are fun, but I don't make it a habit of goin to them.  The last one I went to was in a little old town and the auction was held in an old tobacco barn with lots of funny smelling old tobacco leaf bunches still hanging around the edges.  I snuck out and used my time in an old antique book store which I just loved.

posted by TAPS. on November 28, 2010 at 4:58 PM | link to this | reply