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Clicky Poll: What do you call...
You're attending an outdoor event at a stranger's house where all of their junk is spread out before you for potential purchase.[Poll]
Re: Clicky Poll: What do you call...
In a yard or in a garage, in a driveway or on a sidewalk.... it is 100% yard sale around these parts.
updated 10.03.12
LOL I was wondering who was gonna take themselves too seriously to answer a clicky poll ;p
updated 10.03.12
In a garage/ driveway= garage sale.
In a yard= yard sale.
In a house where you can buy everything= estate sale.
I love other people's crap. Especially if it is expensive antiquey crap.
Stand up for something you believe in.
i felt obligated to pick hair flip.
but my actual answer is yard= yard and garage=garage and like Mary said, we also have estate sales.
RE: estate sales -- I didnt include them because I felt the circumstances were different, and I think they're pretty standard wherever you are.
A person dies and the family wants to get rid of their stuff = estate sale
updated 10.03.12
not always. sometimes people have them when they are in debt to get rid of stuff.
if the house is foreclosed upon and the bank does the sale of stuff its a sheriff's sale.
so many terms.
Yeah, that'd be me :-P I think I would like yard sales more if I were in a better area. I live in a very rural area and no one here is especially rich, so yard sales usually do = lots of crapola and very few good antique finds.
Anything not in the main house is a tag sale- in the yard, at the curb, in the garage, on the porch, in front of a church/community center/etc, it's all a tag sale.
Unless someone dies and their family doesn't want their stuff so opens up the entire house for creeps and bargain hunters, and sells their 44 piece set of Spanish crystal stemware for $5... that's an estate sale. I love estate sales.
We don't have Sheriff's sales around here. I believe if anything gets left behind in a foreclosure, it goes in the trash. Houses are sold as-is, so if there's crap and trash all over, it's the bank/broker's/new owner's resposibility. Plus, some FCs are so bad-blooded, the debtors will even be spiteful enough to take light fixtures and toilets. I wish I could make this up.
updated 10.03.12
That's what I always thought estate sales were, but looks like I was wrong.
I've never seen anyone actually sell their stuff in a garage, it's always been on their yard or driveway.
Andys first house was a foreclosure and they took the doors, cabinets, light fixtures, faceplates on outlets, they even ripped the island out of the kitchen. true story.
I totes believe it. Totes.
updated 10.03.12
I grew up in CT, so like Wamo, it was always "tag sale". In the Boston area you get weird looks for calling it a tag sale, so I've gotten better at calling it a yard sale.
I love buying other people's stuff...it is sometimes the thrill of the hunt that is reallly the fun....and I love flea market's too (another weird term if you ask me).
My uncle's house now is a foreclosure and they took everything too- they couldn't take the island in the kitchen because it has a structural beam embedded in the center, but they took the copper pipes and jets / motor out of the jacuzzi tub. OH! And the stones lining the sidewalk and driveway.
Stand up for something you believe in.
ditto.