Comments on: What’s The Deal With Yard Sales? http://www.groveproject.org/2009/05/29/whats-the-deal-with-yard-sales/ A concentration of local citizen journalists Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.groveproject.org/2009/05/29/whats-the-deal-with-yard-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-32547 Ian Sun, 31 May 2009 16:41:20 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2009/05/29/whats-the-deal-with-yard-sales/#comment-32547 They do seem kooky, Randy. A bustling, kooky sub-culture. I like the gray market vibe of yard sales, though. It's fun to think about how much <i>stuff</i> is trading hands outside of the actual marketplace. It's almost like, "Ha ha Best Buy, I got a big square TV with three dimensional nobs and didn't even darken your door!" Freecycle is the apogee of this, since money is not involved. Also the Free Market at Greenfield Lake (which I'm not sure the status of). Too, it may be that, like, sociologically speaking, you couldn't even <i>have</i> a culture with so much stuff that didn't also have this subterranean system of moving stuff around. Like the valve on an old pressure cooker ($1.25 on the formica table to your left): The cars are on the lawn and the garages are full! More stuff is needed! Self-storage business owners are the royalty in this area (I hear from the people who party on their giant yachts with them). And there's this thing I keep seeing advertised: <a href="http://wilmingtonyardsales.com" rel="nofollow">wilmingtonyardsales.com</a>, a kind of e-bay of local yard sales (?) They do seem kooky, Randy. A bustling, kooky sub-culture.

I like the gray market vibe of yard sales, though. It’s fun to think about how much stuff is trading hands outside of the actual marketplace. It’s almost like, “Ha ha Best Buy, I got a big square TV with three dimensional nobs and didn’t even darken your door!” Freecycle is the apogee of this, since money is not involved. Also the Free Market at Greenfield Lake (which I’m not sure the status of).

Too, it may be that, like, sociologically speaking, you couldn’t even have a culture with so much stuff that didn’t also have this subterranean system of moving stuff around. Like the valve on an old pressure cooker ($1.25 on the formica table to your left): The cars are on the lawn and the garages are full! More stuff is needed!

Self-storage business owners are the royalty in this area (I hear from the people who party on their giant yachts with them).

And there’s this thing I keep seeing advertised: wilmingtonyardsales.com, a kind of e-bay of local yard sales (?)

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