8/12/2023 Question of the day

[petrea_mitchell]

Garage Sale Day (or Boot Sale, in the UK): Do you regularly, or occasionally, check out garage sales in your area? Have you ever organized one yourself, or in conjunction with some neighbours?

It is certainly garage sale season around here, but I don't generally check them out, as we have enough stuff cluttering the house as it is. I've never held one myself, excess stuff here tends to either get donated to an appropriate charity (like books periodically being taken to one of the two local friends-of-the-library organizations to get sold in their stores) or resold through specialist channels (such as how the SO made a tidy bundle at the bring-and-buy of the local miniatures gaming con by selling off a bunch of Star Wars miniatures game supplies).

Comments

[delosharriman]

In Munich — and this strikes me as Typically German — each neighbourhood has a designated weekend or two in the year for Hof-flohmarkt, the equivalent of garage or yard sales for people who live in apartments. So you can get the schedule from the municipal administration, and visit dozens in one day on foot.