Luann Againn by Greg Evans for June 19, 2024

This was also something we observed at our annual junk sale at King’s Day here. The official start time for the market was around 8 am, but people would set up their stuff much earlier of course. And the professional buyers would be coming around at 6 am to see if there was something worthwhile between the junk. And tried to get it for next to nothing.

Too bad you didn’t have any of that stuff, Frank.

Because if you did, you could charge that joker DOUBLE.

Just for waking you up. ;-)

No. But we do have a dog. Start running.

You need to put in your ad “No Early Birds!” Though they will ignore it but at least you can tell them your ad said “No Early Birds” and you intend to honor that.

A couple years ago, I learned that my son did not want to inherit my mother’s 100 year old dining room set—a table with a leaf, four chairs, and a buffet/china cupboard six feet long. So I sent them to an auction house. They sold for $70, of which I got $49.

Now we get to see the dark side of garage sale-ing..

In Florida, you always get the yahoos who want to know if you have any guns. Anyhow, Frank, posting that “embellished” ad in the paper was sure to get the “pros” to your front door early so this is on you…..

Why at six A.M.?

Luckily, I am an early bird. I would start setting up at 5am. Lots of day workers/contractors would come at 6 before they’d begin their job. Then the other professionals would come at 7.. Frankly, the serious people came early and that’s when you get your best sales.

I used to work for chain of suburban newspapers. A constant Garage sale complaint was people coming the day before the announced sale to search for the best stuff before the hoi polloi arrived

A lot of the folks who advertise garage sales here will put down “no early birds”. a few will say “early birds welcome.” The last time we had a garage sale, we had early birds show up the day before, who promptly got mad because I told them we weren’t ready and weren’t going to let them browse around as we were setting up. Funny thing, they came back the next day when we were ready.

Nine seems very late to start.

Those people are ANNOYING SCUM.

9 is too late to start a garage sale. I started mine at six and some were sitting in their cars at 5:30.

We never published our address for yard sales. Merely said “200 block” (or whatever block it was). Just saying “no early sales” was useless.

had that happen to me a few times when i had a garage sale. they said they did nt want to miss out. “since i`m here could i look around anyway” one said. after the second time, i went out for breakfast and did nt reurn till around 15 minutes before the sale started.