200 mile garage sale.

[Ernie]

I forgot this is the weekend.
US 12 has a garage sale from Detroit to New Buffalo, about 200 miles long. Was trying to get to Menards and ran into this insanity. People are renting out their yards, church parking lots are full of stuff people don't want anymore, cars are lined up on both sides of the road and pedestrians assume the right of way while carrying Great Aunt Edna's hutch down the road to the half filled pickup trucks and trailers. Traffic was stopped and the scent of burned hotdogs filled the air. Quite the circus. This continues for a ways down all the side streets with yard sales and garage sales tapering off as you get further away from the highway. I managed to finally get out of the madness, made it to Menards and headed home without entering into the fracas again. I stopped at my sister's to drop off some lawn tools I sharpened for her in time to meet her, her daughter, grand daughter, and great grand daughter as they unloaded stuff and prepared to venture forth once again. They will sort this material amongst themselves to store for the winter until having their own large yard sale in the spring in preparation for the exchange of unwanted material next year.
I don't get it. Get out of my way I need to buy more tools.

[HenryFan]

Is this an annual event?

[Ernie]

Every year Friday Saturday and Sunday.

[dave77]

I never go to yard sales, I have enough junk of my own without buying other peoples junk.

[BrokenolMarine]

Miss Tina only goes to ONE yard sale here. There is a guy in a small town we pass on the way to Home Depot that has regular yard sales that start in the spring and run thru fall. He ownes several storage facilities, and when you don't pay the rent, your stuff becomes HIS stuff. Every second or third weekend, minus the few things he decides to keep, that stuff appears in his huge front yard. Cheap. Anything from Clothing to Bush Hogs. They don't auction off the storage spaces here like they do on TV. She doesn't wander the layout looking at what's there. She'll walk up to him and ask if he has so and so this week when she is looking for something.. if he does, he knows right where he laid it out.

Just like another post said, "We have enough junk... we don't need to buy someone else's."

Driving by one Saturday on the way to HD, there was a display laid out on a blanket at the front of the property. Early in the morning at the start of the sale. It was a good size collection of metal John Deere toy farm equipment. Tractors, implements, etc. All in excellent shape. Plows, baler, hay rake, corn harvester, etc. The posterboard said, "Sold as a Set Only." Gone when we came back by a hour later.

[Hatchdog]

Don’t go to yard sales very often but we had one a few months ago. Did real well, sold lots of stuff and took in $2600. Not bad but it sure was a lot of work to do it.

[daytime dave]

I go out to the barn and take stuff out, see things I haven't seen in a while and then put it back. That puts off the urge to go to a garage sale.

[Ernie]

I go out to the barn and take stuff out, see things I haven't seen in a while and then put it back. That puts off the urge to go to a garage sale.

I like your system.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

WE go to several each year.........I alway's ask. Do you have any gun; ammo or old knives to sell?