Our community-wide garage sale this year

debodun

debodun

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I sent an e-mail to the mayor inquiring if a date has been set for the sale and suggesting that Friday be included in the "official" sale days.

Her reply indicated that the village board is considering the weekend of May 2nd because town "clean-up" day is the following weekend (people can bring things they want to trash to the town garage). My feeling is that if people are going to trash something, it's junk and shouldn't be for sale. I also think that's way too early from a weather standpoint. It's still pretty cool here then. The sale use to be the third weekend in May and clean-up day the first Saturday in June. I don't know how trash day got moved up so early. She also said the board is in favor of just having a 2-day sale to limit traffic in the community. I don't understand the reasoning there.
 
debodun said:
I sent an e-mail to the mayor inquiring if a date has been set for the sale and suggesting that Friday be included in the "official" sale days.

Her reply indicated that the village board is considering the weekend of May 2nd because town "clean-up" day is the following weekend (people can bring things they want to trash to the town garage). My feeling is that if people are going to trash something, it's junk and shouldn't be for sale. I also think that's way too early from a weather standpoint. It's still pretty cool here then. The sale use to be the third weekend in May and clean-up day the first Saturday in June. I don't know how trash day got moved up so early. She also said the board is in favor of just having a 2-day sale to limit traffic in the community. I don't understand the reasoning there.
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I don’t know if she’ll listen to you, but maybe you can get people to all email her suggesting that it’s too early to have garage sales there. I used to live in upstate New York so I know how unpredictable. the weather can be that early.
 
debodun said:
Her reply indicated that the village board is considering the weekend of May 2nd because town "clean-up" day is the following weekend (people can bring things they want to trash to the town garage). My feeling is that if people are going to trash something, it's junk and shouldn't be for sale.
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Lots of people do that.
If it does not sell, they do not want it back in their house. The choices are to donate or trash.

It all ends up in a landfill.... doesn't matter if that is now or when your heirs clean out your house.
 
For me I always thought yard sales were about getting rid of "stuff" that is no longer wanted. Making a few dollars if someone else sees value in whatever is great for them. Then there are people that hoard "stuff" & use yard sales to earn money. Some even go to other yard sales to get "stuff" to bring back home to hopefully sell for a profit.

As That Lady in PA posted when whatever isn't wanted does eventually end up in a landfill.

Kind of feel sorry for heirs that have to clean out a home that is filled with unsold "stuff" to make it livable.
 
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