Amy in Ohio found this delightful diatribe while browsing through area garage sale listings on Craigslist. “Fortunately I snapped a screenshot, because this gem was soon flagged for removal,” she says. “My favorite part: ‘…nothing but ignorance!’”
related: Some advice on holding a garage sale
94 responses so far ↓
#1
weinerville
Holy hell, I don’t get around to my nitty gritty garage sailin’ until at least 3:30! Stop the insanity! I need your slightly used crap in my house!
May 29, 2012 at 7:15 am rating: 90
#2
Batman
Thank god this person was thoughtful enough to let everyone provide instructions on how to completely rearrange their plans and lives to accommodate him/her for yard sale day.
May 29, 2012 at 7:17 am rating: 90
#3
Cyberjar88
Suddenly I’m reminded of Weird Al’s eBay song…
May 29, 2012 at 7:18 am rating: 90
#4
Beth
The reason most yard sales close around 1 in the afternoon is because they start between 6 and 7 in the morning. And by the time 1 o’clock comes around, it is hot as hell (at least here,in Florida).
May 29, 2012 at 7:22 am rating: 90
#5
JingoPoe
“Delightful” sums it up.
May 29, 2012 at 7:23 am rating: 90
#6
Karla
Sorry, but I’m with Team Notewriter on this one. Especially if someone is having a weekday garage sale. Are there REALLY that many people who don’t work on Wednesdays and Thursdays that there are all these garage sales on those days? Shit, I need to buy my boy some clothes cheap because he goes through them like water!!
May 29, 2012 at 7:28 am rating: 90
#7
ANkh
Nit Wit!
May 29, 2012 at 7:33 am rating: 90
#8
kathryn
Obviously all those garage sale holders who “feel..the need to (be a) part of a group of people to sit around and gossip and eat” didn’t invite him/her. I call sour grapes and a possible ‘mean girl’ group of flea marketeers.
May 29, 2012 at 7:38 am rating: 90
#9
hotstepper
The sense of entitlement that is that foundation for this kind of thinking is less than funny.
May 29, 2012 at 9:14 am rating: 90
#10
Jorpho
If the garage sale is advertised with a specific closing time, how exactly might gas be wasted?
Now, I do have a gripe with those who plaster their surrounding neighborhood with advertisements that list an address but not a date or a time and then leave all their signage up after the event has passed. That’s just not decent.
May 29, 2012 at 9:34 am rating: 90
#11
skreidle
Flagged? Hell, that should be nominated for Best Of under Rants!
May 29, 2012 at 9:46 am rating: 90
#12
Momo
I find this pretty funny, my brother just recently had a garage sale with one of his buddies and they closed up at 2 because they sold everything.
May 29, 2012 at 11:31 am rating: 90
#13
Steph
While it would be frustrating to plan for this and then it closes long before you get there, there’s no reason to bitch to the world. Sorry, lady, that’s how the world is.
May 29, 2012 at 11:54 am rating: 90
#14
Snoofy
Yeah, how dare they gossip or eat on their own lawn. Such jerks are !Everywhere!
May 29, 2012 at 12:35 pm rating: 90
#15
Amy, UK
We don’t have that many garage sales in the UK but I would think the best time to hold one would be at the weekend?
May 29, 2012 at 2:09 pm rating: 90
#16
kermit
Garage sales are pretty much like produce markets or fish markets. If you don’t get there right when they open for business, nothing but crap is left over.
I do somewhat sympathize with the note writer, but they have to realize that garage sale shoppers are a special breed of shopper – the kind of person who shops for sport more than stuff.
The kind of shopper that would camp out the entire night in front of an electronics store to get the latest X-box, PS2 or Apple thingie.
That being said, my mom’s temporary garage sale mania taught me that uber-wealthy neighbourhoods do have some decent stuff at garage sales.
Some even sell name-brand clothing that’s new (with store tags still on). So be a human being, Kate and don’t shop at Walmart. May we remind you that your children could be hurt by all the Chinese-made toxic plastic crap they sell?
May 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm rating: 90
#17
Rinny
Poor baby, doesn’t get off work until 3:30! :*( Such a late day, how DO you manage dinner?
May 29, 2012 at 4:03 pm rating: 90
#18
Harbinger
I hate when you have a garage sale clearly advertised as starting at 6am, and the second hand shop owners start pounding on your door at 4am so they can cherry-pick. Maybe a better topic for a Craigslist rant…
May 29, 2012 at 6:50 pm rating: 90
#19
Eileen
Anyone comes to my door at 4AM, I’m calling the police. Most yard sales around here don’t start till 8 or 9 and run till about 3. And the hours are clearly posted on the signs. Don’t like it, Note Writer? Go to Target like everyone else.
May 29, 2012 at 7:27 pm rating: 90
#20
rtuko
All the good stuff is gone by 1pm, so what’s the point of staying open? Some people are like, garage-sale fiends and they flock around at 6am on the dot and make off with anything worth having.
May 29, 2012 at 7:50 pm rating: 90
#21
Lisa
I’m going to edit this note.
Notice to all garage sale sellers:
Take your signs down. Do you know how much gas I wasted going nowhere because your sale was 3 days ago and you didn’t take down your signs?!?! asdakgfakfj@#$@#%@$^ I hate you.
May 29, 2012 at 10:07 pm rating: 90
#22
Merri
I happen to like sales staffed by nitwit children. They often give the best deals.
May 29, 2012 at 11:50 pm rating: 90
#23
catethulhu
Eh, I think she was just blowing off steam over a frustrating day. Craig’s list is as good a place as any to anonymously tell a bunch of people you’re mad at them. I doubt she really expects people to listen to her. If she does, then she’s crazy.
May 30, 2012 at 12:43 am rating: 90
#24
Jamie
They forgot the two most important yard sale gripes!
1. When you’re yard sale is all done, remove your effing signs from the road! This is especially true if you don’t put dates on your sign, but just have a sign that says “Yard Sale Today!” with an arrow. Talk about wasted gas.
2. Don’t place signs for your yard sale randomly around town with the address. Only place signs at intersections that are directly relevant to the location of your yard sale.
May 30, 2012 at 9:58 am rating: 90
#25
Pit Pat
Wait, shouldn’t it be “garage-salers” or something? Or is this note really directed at people who sell garage sales? I never knew that such a niche existed.
May 30, 2012 at 11:08 am rating: 90
#26
redheadwglasses
So this clod thinks everyone else should cater to his work schedule? Did he ever think that maybe people close up their garage sale at 1 because most of it is gone and it isn’t worth sitting out there waiting for four more customers to pick over stuff and complain about prices?
May 30, 2012 at 11:55 am rating: 90
#27
Amanda Kate
I do agree about letting your kids run the garage sale. A couple of weeks ago a kid charged me $30 for 8 kids books. I wonder if the parents wondered why the kids books never sold…
May 30, 2012 at 1:01 pm rating: 90
#28
kathlynn
I’m mostly with the note writer. If your garage sale hasn’t sold out, you should stay open until 4pm.
If you do sell out early, remove signs, and put up a new one on your drive/yard way explaining “SOLD OUT” so that people aren’t wondering what happened.
May 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm rating: 90
#29
JME
People have to work until 3 PM or even LATER? What kind of hellish slave-labor jobs are these people trapped in?
May 31, 2012 at 12:32 am rating: 90
#30
aliceblue
This person is such an ass it makes you think that experienced sellers close up or shove the kids outside when they see the writer coming.
May 31, 2012 at 1:12 am rating: 90
#31
mamamel
HATE THOSE EARLY BIRDS ! We always advertise a starting time and state “no eary birds” in the ad. It doesn’t matter. Last one we had was advertised as starting at 7. There were cars lined up in the street at 6:15. When we started carrying tables out at 6:30 they were all over the driveway and asking if they could go on in the garage and look around. Gahhh go away ! We never advertise an ending time. When all the good stuff is gone, we send someone out to take signs down and then we pack up. ALWAYS TAKE SIGNS DOWN and please , please don’t advertise HUGE YARD SALE and have one card table full of crap that nobody wants.
May 31, 2012 at 3:53 pm rating: 90
#32
Anne
Instead of pulling this ad, they should put it on BEST OF CRAIGSLIST. (link right->)
May 31, 2012 at 6:12 pm rating: 90
#33
Annaliesa
I live in a place with climate extremes. We have maybe a month of fall and a month of spring. The rest is winter or summer.
I do not have tall trees in my front yard, nor do I have a garage. I purchased the house three years ago, and I do not yet have a nice, shady spot to sit in. There is no chance in Hell I’m going to sit outside past 1:00. The hottest part of the day around here is between 2:00 – 3:00. I’ve had a few garage sales (neighborhood has a big one), and they’re complete misery. I am fortunate in that anything worth a damn sells before 1:00, so I can quickly close up shop and sit in front of the air conditioner. I have kept garage sales open later, and no one comes past 12:00. Again, misery in the summer. No one wants to walk from door-to-door when it’s 90 degrees out.
Jun 4, 2012 at 9:32 am rating: 90
#34
Denise
Garage sales are definitely depending on the owners and the situation. If everything is already bought already by noon, then definitely it’s time to pack. It’s not like a store that would be open for a specific time with or without customers.
Jun 20, 2012 at 7:43 pm rating: 90
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