Yard sale!
In Britain piling your old crap up outside your house and shamelessly selling it just isn’t very us. You’re expected to go to a car boot sale for that. So I’ve always somewhat envied the American tradition of the yard sale.
It’s not quite like a jumble sale, because it’s less diluted, generally being the possessions of just one person or family being sold. And plus it’s in their own house! What could be creepier more fun?
If you’re feeling hard done buy, bargain hunters, put down that Green Card application, because now you can enjoy this US custom vicariously at excellent Yarding blog YardSaleBloodbath. You get the same dusty record-flipping, rotting orange box-rumaging, nylon sheet-fingering experience, but without needing to keep a tube of hand santizer in your car.
Loving your blog, If only we had yard sales, but then I have heard from American friends that they are a little jealous of our Car boot sales…. although they find them a little expensive.
I agree about the expensive comment. Things are always more appealing when they’re priced 10p or under.
I held a yard sale in our back garden when I was a kid (in Blackpool, not the USA) – sold a new anorak that my mum had just bought me, for 50p! The yard sale blog looks fantastic, can’t wait to check it out.
Occasionally I’ve seen little kids selling things off the garden wall, and I always think how much I wanted to do that as a child. I had a load of anoraks I would have been happy to have taken off my hands…
my sister held a yard sale – otherwise known to us Brits as a ‘I’m selling some stuff in the front garden if you wanna come by after the school run and take a look’ sale last year. she sold namely kids stuff so not only did she have a good clear out she actually made a bit of money too. nice huh!?
BUT selling stuff in our front garden is sooo not British. and you juts can’t bet a good old early morning mooch around a car boot can you =)
well I hope that we don’t follow the American’s way of exhibiting and selling our not so much wanted and used belongings as I am afraid have to walk the whole London to scout the potential treasures haha…joking I am up for it, I have been trying to organise one in my close but feel my neighbors are not up for it yet…