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Garage sailing
June 19, 2005 - 10:22am
I've lent it to a museum, by the way.
I was just about to post a thread about how funny I find it that people use garage sale as a verb, after I heard it dozens of time this weekend, when my family and I emptied out our storage closets, and held our first garage sale in a decade.
"Hi, how are you?"
"Oh good, just spending the morning 'Garage Saling.'
I don't know why, but it brought a smile to my face every time. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
How was your sale, jrose? Did you clear out a lot of stuff?
We could spin this off into a discussion of why going to garage sales can be loads of fun, actually holding a garage sale is most often a pain in the arse.
First, let's start with the people who call/come the day before the sale begins. . .
I just don't know for sure if that's a good thing or not. Heh.
It was great fun! I made about $150.00, so it wasn't too shabby for an impromptu, unadvertised garage sale! A sign or two at the end of the street did the trick! And it didn't last long either, we packed up by noon, so it was great! (Expect some facebook photos of it soon M.Gregus...I made sure to document it) [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
I'm a huge fan of "Garage Sailing" though I try to avoid them as much as I can to avoid some clutter as much as I can, at least until I've moved out on my own again. But, one of the great parts of having my own garage sale is that a lot of the stuff that wasn't sold, will soon have a home at a local charity shop, where it will hopefully raise some money for a good cause.
Sounds like it was a resounding success! Can't go wrong with a little cash in hand, a good de-cluttering and a contribution to a good cause. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
All in all, you can't go wrong with a good garage sale, although this comes from someone who has only ever stood on the "buyer" side of the table, and not had to deal with grunt work or "early birds." [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
Definitely, Amйricain Йgalitaire. Garage sales are one of my favorite places to get good books from interesting people, for cheap. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro is a favorite, recent acquisition -- for 25 cents (!).
You poor bastard. Buying that book is the easy part. Now you have to read the damn thing.
Let me know what happens after page 60 (as far as I made it on any of my three attempts).
My partner just burst out laughing uncontrollably when I read her your post. She said (paraphrased):
Please understand the context, that both of us are huge Ishiguro fans and have devoured all his other books... But The Unconsoled... sheesh!
No doubt. I'd bet another 25 cents that there are no creases in the spine beyond the first couple of chapters.
I loved, LOVED his other books, but just could not persevere with this one. No doubt I will someday, maybe if I sail across an ocean and don't bring any other books with me or something. Possibly an Antarctic research station would do it.