Comments on: C’mon get happy

By: Yard Sale Bloodbath » Hang in there, baby

Yard Sale Bloodbath » Hang in there, baby — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:29:47 +0000

[...] to sales on Labor Day weekend — is it ever great? Judging from the last three years I would have to say no. But going to yard sales is like playing slots: you never know [...]

By: MR

MR — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:11:37 +0000

Hey! I’ve still got that Quiet Riot binder around here somewhere!

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:36:45 +0000

I was just in Pendleton for the Round Up and spied that sign in the actual Let ‘Er Buck Room — apparently flashing the bar used to be de rigeur for the ladies and when they changed the rules they had to post that sign.

By: Del

Del — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:58:53 +0000

Here in Tennessee sales generally start at 7am as well. On Saturdays, the majority will have packed it up by lunch, due in no small part to the often grueling summer heat.

Love the Partridge Family ink. These days when I’m constantly bombarded by tattoos, most of which are horrible in both conception and execution, it’s nice to see something that’s both attractive and meaningful. Or that could just be my nostalgia talking.

Nice find on the poker caddy too.

By: Sue G

Sue G — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:50:34 +0000

Totally diggin’ that keep yer clothes on sign. Too funny!

By: S-

S- — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:42:20 +0000

It was The Full moon!
(That’s my Junkin’ trauma excuse, and I’m sticking to it!)

By: Honey

Honey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:59:30 +0000

I am so glad you posted. I read your site faithfully because of your great adventures.

Here in HELL (opps, I mean Central FLORIDA), ALL garage sales start at 7 AM. Which means, of course, that they really start at 6 AM because of all the bottom-feeders ebay sellers and “collectibles” store owners who park their cars out in front of these sales at 4 AM in order to be there first, or call the sellers the night before, even, if the phone number had been included in the ads. So by 6:15 AM all the good stuff (if there is any, since we are a transient state, and all the people who move in from the “Nawth”–yes, that includes Oregon–and Colorado, too) have huge estate sales selling off all the cool groovy stuff to you spoiled Yankees before they come to Hell–and then promptly buy white trash plastic Made in China sh*t from Wal-Mart “’cause it’s better for the grandkids–and look! we are so close to Disney and the beaches and you can see the rockets launch from your front yard and golf year-round”–thereby making whatever garage sales here in the Chinese dry-walled McMansions totally abysmal.

Of course, I don’t want to blame it ALL on the older people/snowbird transients. We are, after all, the “land of the newly-wed/nearly dead, so a good portion of our garage sales are dedicated entirely to baby sh*t–acres and acres of plastic Made-in-China toys and stuff. Not to worry–if it doesn’t sell, it will wind up at the local Good Will or church thrift where you will hear moms and grandmoms shrieking across the store at any given time during operating hours: “Lookee here! Don’t you think little AshelyBriannna/TiffanyRhiannon/JustinConnor/GordonGekko would just LOVE this???”

The point—I read your posts because I have to scratch my thrift itch which has been kneecapped by living in white trash breeder snowbird hell.

Sincerely,
Honey
A Fan

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:49:43 +0000

Hey! I’ve still got that Quiet Riot binder around here somewhere!

By: liz

liz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:27:08 +0000

I come across the Face Forward book pretty much at a different thrift every week. I finally decided it was worth the $0.98 I paid for it.

Always love the trunk shots !