
Does anyone go to garage sales anymore?
My family used to have garage sales in the 1970′s & 80′s and our front yard looked like St. Peter’s Square on Easter. I decided to have a sale again, after more years of accumulating. There’s some really nice stuff – antiques, artwork and all sorts of collectibles. I dropped a few hints at work and all I got, in effect, was “I already have too much junk now, thanks anyway!” I advertised in the Pennysaver and on Craig’s List. I live right on the main street in town and put out a big sign in the front yard – “ESTATE SALE.” Not one person stopped all weekend! What’s going on?
Maybe you just had a bad day. However, I suspect it is simply the economy and people not having much to spare these days. Yesterday, Saturday, I made the rounds of my local community. I looked in the Friday newspaper (they have a separate section just for yard sales) and the latest Pennysaver and made a list, and then I dug out my detailed county maps and spent the day out and about. (I do not have nor use a GPS.) My biggest find, a TIVO unit with a lifetime subscription that I got for only $40. It only records 20 hours, but still, I know enough that I can easily upgrade it to record more with a bigger hard disk and a little work on my part. I bought it only after I saw it in operation to confirm it had a lifetime subscription. Otherwise, I would NOT have bought it. These things are boat anchors without the service and I am not about to pay $13/month for the convenience of on-screen program information. I just can’t afford to subscribe. However, paying a one time $40 rather than $13/month DOES make sense to me. Anyway, each and every location I visited had several people there besides little old me. Personally, I enjoy poking around at yard sales. Sometimes you can find some really interesting things. For me, it is gadgets I look for which are usually nothing that I NEED but something which gets my curiosity going, like this TIVO box. Gadgets like this just make my day. The TIVO is alive and well and now, all I have to do is figure out how to get the subscription and ownership transferred into my name from the previous owner… The TIVO site indicates that it should be a relatively easy process which I shall take on tomorrow morning.
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