tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post4257277774669408299..comments2024-03-11T02:26:38.210-05:00Comments on Always Drunk: Stuff, Part 1Chuck Baudelairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856142744531037691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-44711618722411940602015-05-06T09:41:59.647-05:002015-05-06T09:41:59.647-05:00The best description I've ever heard of garage...The best description I've ever heard of garage sales is that someone was carrying out their garbage, got tired, and just sat down and started putting price tags on everything. That pretty well sums it up. It's easy to get rid of old books (although who really wants to get rid of books?): you take them to a used bookstore and they give you cash (or store credit which you turn into more books). I wish there were a way to do that with other stuff that didn't require a garage sale.<br /><br />Decades before there was an <i>American Pickers</i> TV show my parents held a garage sale and, rather than going by the price tags, a guy gathered up a bunch of stuff and rattled off amounts like the skinny guy and the short one. "I'll give you this much for this, this much for this," and so on, rapid fire, finally throwing out a total that may or may not have been correct.<br /><br />If he comes to your garage sale take the offer and run. Otherwise he'll just shoplift some cheap piece of crap that someone else might actually be willing to pay for. Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10320886074658710855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-53701029440583035152015-05-06T06:00:08.916-05:002015-05-06T06:00:08.916-05:00We've done a garage sale exactly once. After ...We've done a garage sale exactly once. After that, I said never again. Now, I just box stuff up and haul it down to Goodwill. Much less painful.Gigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467164195744234746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-74985322029740326702015-05-05T23:07:23.835-05:002015-05-05T23:07:23.835-05:00Garage sales are stupid. I have never once looked ...Garage sales are stupid. I have never once looked forward to having them. I always felt like the strangers going through my were judging me. Though, in all fairness, I was definitely judging them for going through a strangers unwanted possessions. On the rare occasion that I partake in the debacle, I usually don't try to haggle prices down. I just look for the strangest things I can find to add to my wall of weird. <br /><br />Just don't stress yourself out too much! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com