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I think if you have enough to part with Goodwill will come pick it up. I had a friend that wanted to clear out the collected junk including an attic full when his wife died. He hired someone to help and set out some rules. Make three piles... 1 I keep 2 You take 3 Goes to dump. Pile 1 must be the smallest, pile 3 must be the biggest. If it wasn't for yard sales I would not have my Grands old double barrel shotgun. My Grandmother brought it to my Mom's yard sale, Grasndpa was deceased, and put 20 bucks on it.... This knowing she had two Sons and three Grandsons that might want it! I bought it and never told her I did. It sits by the fireplace in my den. But yea, other than that one thing I got no use for yard sales either...  Collecting dust. | |||
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We had one yard sale. After which someone came by to steal our wicker chair furniture and a couple of big potted plants. That was our last yard sale. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Just picture Smaug noticing the missing goblet. "Do you have a lid for this one?" "No." "Why don't we throw it out, then?" "I might find a lid for it." The logic is irrefutable. Horribly flawed, but irrefutable. === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | |||
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How much money do you make from the sale? Probably not enough for your time. | |||
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I know people who go to yard sales just to buy things to sell at their yard sale. I guess it's a hobby. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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It's a hobby for some people that thankfully my wife despises as much as me. We had one right before we sold our last house and my wife had .25 cents marked on something and was offered .10 cents. That was the last time I ever had to deal with a yard sale of any type. We have a friend that does this stuff just about every weekend and has so much crap packed in every crevice of her house that she has no business going for more. She's also always broke. | |||
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My wife and her two sisters (please gentleman, if you're smart marry an orphan)hosted garage sales a few times. Nothing but aggravation!!! Eventually I put my foot down and said no more Hosting is a disaster. All their crap would end up here, it wouldn't sell, and they would leave it!!! If at their house, we'd have to drag all our crap there!!! Our town has a Buy Nothing Site. You have to register and live in town. Post stuff and of someone wants it, put a name on it and it's a porch pick up!!!Greatest idea ever. Have given awat tons of stuff, and received great stuff also. Especially if you have kids in sports. Good way for the ladies to make friends too. No more garage sales!!!! | |||
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I don't like strangers to even set foot on my property so no way. I'll pay to get rid of something before I deal with idiots haggling over some chintzy item. Fuck all that. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Preaching to the choir, brother... preaching to the choir!!! _____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama | |||
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I'm with you, that's one of the reasons I have a decoy house up by the road. Keeps them away from the real house. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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