these are my garage sale chronicles. sometimes i talk about rules. sometimes i talk about finds. but mostly i'm just interested in looking inside people's garages.today: you're in big trouble if you were told to man the sale.
it's always fun to go up to a garage sale and see a man sitting there. slumped over. defeated. most likely, his wife is in the bathroom on a quick break. or. he's being punished for over-tipping the friendly waitress who kept calling him "honey". either way. he's an easy mark.
take for example, this fingertip towel. new with tag. retail price is around five dollars.
me: i wonder how much this is.
donnafriend: i'd say fifty cents. ask.
me: *turns to look at the man.*
the man: take it. you can have it. it's free.
donnafriend: i'd say fifty cents. ask.
me: *turns to look at the man.*
the man: take it. you can have it. it's free.
and there you have it. also. if he wasn't in trouble before. he's in trouble now.
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ha. that's hysterical. I never have much luck at garage/yard sales in my area...and right now I am getting rid of stuff not trucking anything *in* but I do love a good garage sale story!
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Maybe he saw you giving a swift throat-cutting motion to someone and he was just scared... Maybe you should've given him 50 cents just so he could show his wife he got SOMETHING for the brand spankin' new towel! :-D
Ahahhahahaaaa!
I know just how this is! When my hubby and I got married we had a garage sale so I could fit in the house with his things...meaning we boht got rid of TONS! We had tons of people stopping and trying to haggle. Mostly claimed to not speak english. They would walk up to my clothes aske, "How much?" I would say, "Pants and sweaters are $4, t-shirts are $3 and tanks are $2." Then they would go and get about 20 shirts and 10 pairs of pants and say "How about all of this for $20?" I just wanted to say, "WHAT?! NO! You have a pair of Banana Republic pants I have worn 3 times...$4 is a STEAL for them. You have a sweater there that still has the $50 price tga on it...$4 is resonable." I just said, "No, but I can total it all up for you if you want to know how much it would cost." Most of the time they would pick two or three shirts and then get in their Escalade and drive away.
Now my husband on the other hand was saying, "You want this suit that is in good condition...how about $2?" Then he would turn to me and say, "See how happy I made that man?" Lets just say...happy wife, happy life....and if I am going to waste my Saturday selling my hubby's things for next to nothing I am not going to be happy. I quickly sat him down in a chair in the shade and played sales woman....$2000 later and no thanks to him we ccompleted our garage sale.
Love garage sales. Love dumb men left alone at garage sales. Love your blog, and sense of humor. Reminds me a bit of someone I know.....
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YES! I love it when you go to make a cheap offer and get it for free instead!
Well see, that poor oldman read that towel ovar and ovar and figured his once whale-intanded life was ovar and he might as well give away everything he evar worked for and die right there in his seat, garyerining nothing from all his efforts. Hal sad..Pertsonally, I think he needs a new towel with a positive message. like the messages you hear on radio programs...can you sew him one?
That is so true...in Texas garage sales were really popular and you are so right about letting the man run things...they do not know the art of bartering...just the art of giving away ;-) Mostly because they can't be bothered.
It happened after a cullenation of many years of having to look at that towel...damn..now look what I just did...
Must stop reading Twilight...
Nice. I love it when things like that happen!
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Haha, that's how I am when I have garage sales. I'm so desperate to get rid of stuff, that a lot of times I'm like, "Just take it."
Uhhh...hi.
I've been in my cave.
Now I'm out of my cave.
EstateSales.net, if you don't already know about it, is amazing. In Chicago it's uber-amazing.
Off the Wall Greetings actually exists now and I'd be more than happy to freebie you and your Bloglings some time in the near future.
You sound like a force to be reckoned with! Sale-ing the seas in search of treasure, you totally pillaged that fingertip towel. Sweet.
If I'm ever working a garage sale, you can totally pull one over on me. Me and my friend held one about 6 or 7 years ago and we had TONS of furniture from college for sale: couches, bookshelves, etc. This lady on speed or some mind-altering drug that made her scary came. She came like a tornado. And told us what she would pay. And then proceeded to clean us out! And we made: $30, maybe. It was scary and we got scolded by her mom. I only shop them now. :)
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