I’m having trouble defining true garage sales because I’m finding so many undercover garage sales. You know what I mean? Garage sales posing as something else.
Well now my brain is all muddled up because I can’t see the lines. You know. The lines that clearly define what is and what isn’t a garage sale.
Here’s the thing. Since I’ve been researching garage sales I’ve been finding a lot of variety in the technicality of garage sales and what they mean.
Undercover garage sales
So I suppose the kind I’m thinking of is maybe the traditional or classic way garage sales have been approached. But thanks to the Global Village etc. etc. garage sales have, apparently, evolved. And gone underground.
Case in point: Online garage sales. If those aren’t undercover garage sales I don’t know what are.
Blow my mind, why don’t you. I spent I don’t know how many minutes reading about this guy and his little garage sale blog.
And then I started thinking about all my friends with blogs who occasionally sell off their stuff…
And then I remembered about Etsy and all the people that sell things on there…
So I can’t wrap my head around it. Where does one end and another begin? I mean, Etsy sells reused items…and garage sales sell reused items…
Is everyone a garage saler and just doesn’t know it?
Freaks me right out.
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I’m a Craigslist garage saler. It’s just so much easier to post items as I want to sell them than it is to plan a garage sale. Plus, I really don’t think as many people go to garage sales anymore. The last one I held a few years ago was a complete fail.
Nicole that’s really interesting! It didn’t occur to me that people don’t really “garage sale” like they used to. Hmmmmm
Agreed with Nicole.
In fact, I have a whole separate album for my “swap mamas” as they’re called – for selling and buying. I’m heading out to Chilliwack tomorrow to meet a whack load of people and sell close to $100 worth of stuff!!! I also post things on craigslist – sold 3 things on there today.
Me? Well, I have this strange aversion to used things that I’m REALLY trying to get over. But I can’t. I suck at it. Maybe that could be a post.