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I'm going in !! 🤣🤣🤣 (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Jul 2025 OP
Why didn't I think of that?! Deuxcents Jul 2025 #1
Happy hunting! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2
You couldn't keep me out of that place. Tom Dyer Jul 2025 #3
Like there's such a thing. Tom Dyer Jul 2025 #4
Love it!! Beacool Jul 2025 #5
Very clever. I hope their shop is a big success. Marie Marie Jul 2025 #6
Okay, who put a sign on the front of my house? Dem2theMax Jul 2025 #7
Guess not too well. You're still there! erronis Jul 2025 #9
A while back, some co-workers commented that I hadn't FoxNewsSucks Jul 2025 #16
Oh, I can relate to your post! Dem2theMax Jul 2025 #18
I need to go in. Solly Mack Jul 2025 #8
Ive shopped there over 50 years BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #10
Garage sales! Dem2theMax Jul 2025 #19
But BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #20
You make a very good point. Dem2theMax Jul 2025 #21
I love it debm55 Jul 2025 #11
My kind of place lindalou65 Jul 2025 #12
My kind of place. MIButterfly Jul 2025 #13
Happy Hunting! . . . and Good Luck! CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2025 #14
My wife True Dough Jul 2025 #15
It's for real some_of_us_are_sane Jul 2025 #17
After 10 years of buying bargains at sales, I'm moving to multigraincracker Jul 2025 #22

Beacool

(30,524 posts)
5. Love it!!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:18 PM
Jul 2025

I would definitely go in. Most of my place is full of shit that I don't need, but enjoy having around.



Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)
7. Okay, who put a sign on the front of my house?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:35 PM
Jul 2025


I have a new rule. Nothing new comes in unless something old goes out.

Ask me how that's working for me.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,913 posts)
16. A while back, some co-workers commented that I hadn't
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:27 PM
Jul 2025

had anyone over for dinner for a while. I haven't been able because I have way too much shit cluttering everything everywhere and said that as soon as I got it under control I'd again be having dinner parties.

Afterward, I realized that we were walking back to the car from a thrift shop, and I'd said that while carrying two bags of MORE shit.

Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)
18. Oh, I can relate to your post!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:54 PM
Jul 2025

I swear it seems I move things from room to room, fully intending to get rid of stuff.
But somehow it doesn't quite happen that way.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
10. Ive shopped there over 50 years
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:58 PM
Jul 2025

The store uses many different names. I got a house full, a garage full and an outbuilding full of shit I don’t need. My BIL keeps his garage door open about 90 percent of the time whether he’s home or not. If I Want to get rid of something I just Chuck it in his garage. If I need it I’ll go borrow it from him. It’s great to have more shit than you need. Then we all swap our shit out during garage sales.

Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)
19. Garage sales!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:59 PM
Jul 2025

I live in a gated community, not my choice, inherited.

Once a year we have what would be called garage sales, although most of us have carports.

I swear, everybody's shit moves from one house to another, and then the next year with the next sale, another. It's this horrible cycle of shit!

I walked through my house one time, from room to room, making note of the fact that I had items in my house from at least 10 other neighbors!

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
20. But
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 10:08 PM
Jul 2025

As per Forest Gump, I call Garage Sales a Box of Chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. I find the occasional gem and I’m looking for lawn mowing shirts every year. My neighbor who is a nice old very proficient Jack of damn near every trade has an outbuilding full of tools he has purchased at garage sales for decades. And my wife and I both read. A lot. Garage sales have been an outstanding source of reading material. And for me that includes 40 year old Readers Digests and TV Guides. My life is just a bundle of excitement.

Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)
21. You make a very good point.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 10:48 PM
Jul 2025

Sometimes, you find the perfect item you actually did need, and you get it at a greatly reduced price!

I have a 5-piece bedroom set that a neighbor GAVE to me, (six pieces if you include the mattresses.)
I'm still sleeping on it, years later.

I have some other neighbors who are experts at garage sales. I go over to their house and I see the most beautiful furniture, and I ask them where they got it. Garage sales. Lamps I would kill for, chairs that you can sit in for days. Art work. They somehow have this incredible radar to find great pieces at ridiculously low prices!

multigraincracker

(38,034 posts)
22. After 10 years of buying bargains at sales, I'm moving to
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:24 PM
Jul 2025

a larger house with no out buildings. Yesterday I loaded a 20 yard dumpster with those treasures. A few weeks ago I put out a big free sign and only 2 people stopped.
I think the problem was, I just like to talk to people at the sales.

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