Garage and Yard sales
By DJ9020
@DJ9020 (1596)
United States
September 23, 2007 8:31pm CST
I hope this is not a stupid question. But around here there are garage and yard sales almost every weekend, where people are selling off their old stuff. I've also heard them called rummage sales. Do people in other countries do this also? Do you also call them yard sales, or somthing similar? I'd really like to know.
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@DJ9020 (1596)
• United States
26 Sep 07
Really! Here we mostly sell our own old stuff, although I do know of one place that has a huge garage sale every other weekend. I know they buy stuff somewhere else (probably other garage sales) and then sell it again. So, ukay ukay is what you call your sales, thats interesting.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
26 Sep 07
We have cold weather from about the end of October till about mid March the rest of the year is pretty so-so. We have a rainy season and a windy season but theres still days you can yard sale. Most of them are out in the yard.
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@gwendovere (1279)
• United States
24 Sep 07
I usually use the phrase "garage sale" as a catch-all. They're all basically the same thing. Just some are in a garage, or in someone's yard, or in a church or school... or outside somewhere. But they all have the same purpose & I love to go to all of them!!!
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@tanjam420 (228)
• United States
25 Sep 07
where i live we have all three. although a rummage sale is usually in a church or at a firehall, those ones i like usually you get a bag for a .50 or a 1.00 and i have learned the way you pack your bag is the key...there are a lot of signs for garage sales but they usually set up in there yard depending on the weather... i still ove to go to them like they say one mans junk is anothers treasure..
@dloud2002 (8)
• United States
5 Oct 07
Hi DJ9020, In the UK (where I am originally from) they have sales out of the trunks of their cars which they call boot sales. (A trunk on a car is called a boot in Europe).
Hope this answers your question.
btw. I live in Wisconsin now.
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@autumnswings02 (67)
• United States
17 Oct 07
where i live we almost always have yard slaes or garge sales all year long we did last year because we did not have much of a winter
