posted on July 29, 2000 08:17:23 PM
Ok--toomanycomics got me to thinking--ya know--there really should be a full and active garage sale police out there and doing their duty--giving tickets to those wayward garage salers. When would you call in the police? Me--when I have more in my car than they have at their sale. How dare they call this a garage sale!!!
posted on July 30, 2000 12:22:13 AM
The "crime" that really bugs me is when you see a sign for a sale you haven't realised was on, follow the misdrawn arrows and vague directions, only to find that the sale was LAST WEEK and the sellers are too lazy to bother taking their signs down!
ARGHHH!!!!!!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
posted on July 30, 2000 05:23:35 AM
My favorite is folks who actually put an ad in the classifieds and then don't hold the sale. We hit THREE of these yesterday and no, we weren't earlybirds (unless you consider 10AM "early".
My only consolation is that they have to PAY to list these utterly useless ads.
posted on July 30, 2000 05:23:37 AM
Whoops - just call me "leadfinger". Obviously my ability to single-click is not what it should be this AM.
[ edited by HartCottageQuilts on Jul 30, 2000 05:24 AM ]
posted on July 30, 2000 07:34:30 AM
I love it when all the signs say everything is $1.00, or whatever, and as soon as you pick something up and show any bit of interest in it, they rush over and say, "Oh, now THAT item is $5.00 because I just bought it and never used it."
Yesterday, my daughter picked up a pair of shorts at a sale that had prominent signs stating that ALL clothing was 25 cents to $1.00. All of a sudden, the Gap shorts she wanted became three dollars because "I only wore them 4 or 5 times." Good, keep them and wear them some more, then!
posted on July 30, 2000 08:00:22 AM
Okay, so I am at the garage sale and looking at a nice quilt. I go to pick it up and another woman grabs it from me and says, " I am taking that!" Okay , I ask the seller, "How much for the quilt?" he replies, "Five bucks." She throws it on the ground and snears at me. I look at it again its in fine shape. I buy it. Moral: It isn't yours until you've paid for it! If you want to buy it,buy it,if not let someone else buy.
posted on July 30, 2000 10:01:19 AM
Well my story is one where I learned to never leave my glasses at home when garage saling with my mom. She drove and it was my job to find signs. Well, without my glasses I pointed out all signs. After following one for a mile we turned around to reread the sign....FREE KITTENS.
In the Bargain Shopper the ad reads "Huge 10 Family sale, something for everyone." Your mouth waters.
After getting lost 5 times you finally arrive to find one small lunchroom table with a few baby clothes and a ratty copy of a 5 year old Judith Krantz former bestseller for 5.00 that they think is a collectors item.
I always pray very hard while leaving one of those.
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