{"id":3100,"date":"2010-05-18T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2010-05-18T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T01:06:10","slug":"thoughts-on-garage-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Garage Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning a garage sale for Friday and Saturday. If you&#8217;re into that sort of thing, come on over and clean us out. This should be a decent sale. Along with us, Jenny&#8217;s parents and sister and some of our friends are selling furniture, light fixtures, clothes, baby stuff, and other assorted things. <\/p>\n<p>Some people love garage sales. Others hate them. I have mixed emotions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIKE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce\/reuse\/recycle. Instead of tossing an unwanted item into a landfill, you can let someone else use it for another few months or even years. Stuff stays out of the landfill for a while longer, and the buyer doesn&#8217;t need to buy a new item (yet). Very green. You might as well plant a tree outside your garage and give it a hug. Maybe we could sell some this weekend.<\/li>\n<li>As a seller, instead of throwing something away for free, you can obviously get money instead. You won&#8217;t get rich, but <em>small money > no money<\/em>. <\/li>\n<li>As a buyer, you can get stuff you need or want for MUCH cheaper. Garage sales are great for kids&#8217; stuff such as toys and clothes that have a high turnover rate.<\/li>\n<li>They are a great motivator for you and your people to declutter their homes. Just tell your people you&#8217;re hosting a garage sale, and they&#8217;ll get busy digging up stuff. Some of them don&#8217;t even want the proceeds; they&#8217;re just happy to get rid of their stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DISLIKE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garage salers, if that&#8217;s the correct term, often expect to negotiate. Some LOVE and DEMAND to negotiate, even if you&#8217;ve already tagged an item with an extremely low price. Jenny&#8217;s mom is a pro. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s coming over to help run the sale. She will make sure we don&#8217;t get hosed. I HATE negotiating and have volunteered to <strike>hide<\/strike> watch the boys instead. <\/li>\n<li>For reasons I fail to understand, many cities require you to get a permit for the garage sale. Seriously?<\/li>\n<li>As a buyer, you never know what you&#8217;re going to find. Advertised items might be gone by the time you arrive. The sale might offer nothing but thirty-year-old yellow vases and dusty eight-tracks. When I buy something, I research it nonstop for three years and then buy the EXACT thing I want, generally online. However, for the hardcore garage salers, the unknown-ness is part of the fun, transforming the trip from a mundane excursion into a treasure hunt. You never know when that beaten-up table you buy for $10 might be a 1780 Federalist end table worth tens of thousands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom line: come to our house Friday or Saturday with a wad of cash and a trailer. We might have a treasure that you never knew you needed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning a garage sale for Friday and Saturday. If you&#8217;re into that sort of thing, come on over and clean us out. This should be a decent sale. 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