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Friday, May 30, 2008

Friday Five: Garage Sale!

Welcome to your irregularly scheduled Fifth Friday Five, hosted by will smama and Songbird!
Since will smama is preparing for a joint garage sale with her parents, and Songbird's church had a Yard and Plant Sale last Saturday, we have five enormously important questions we hope you will answer:

1) Are you a garage saler?
2) If so, are you an immediate buyer or a risk taker who comes back later when prices are lower?
3) Seriously, if you're not a garage saler, you are probably not going to want to play this one.
(That wasn't really #3.)
3) This is the real #3: What's the best treasure you've found at a yard or garage sale?
4)If you've done one yourself, at church or at home, was it worth the effort?
5) Can you bring yourself to haggle?
BONUS: For the true aficionado: Please discuss the impact of Ebay, Craig's List, Freecycle, etc... on the church or home yard/garage sale.

Let us know in comments if you play. And for even more visits to your blog, post a direct link in your comment using the following formulation:
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We'll check in with all who play, as soon as we finish pricing the only slightly chipped malicious moments figurine of Peter on the upside down cross.... 'cause that's worth putting in statuette form, isn't it?

40 comments:

  1. Well, now. Do I get to be first? :)

    I played here.

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  2. just because i get to be 2nd, i'm playing!

    thanks for the early posting! i don't think i've ever been this early before! hooray!

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  3. well that was fun- garage sales are not really a British thing- but they are catching on so I played anyway:

    here

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  4. What fun! Y'all played while I was sleeping! I'll get mine up and be over to check on yours a.s.a.p!!!

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  5. Here's my play. Now I want to get up early tomorrow and see what's out there!

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  6. Malicious Moments! I love it! (P... Moments are my most-despised form of "collectible.") I played
    what you wanthere and am looking forward to reading all the posts.

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  7. This was fun... Thanks Songbirg and Wil Smama!! I told some takes here!!

    Deb

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  8. ermmm.... that should have been "tales" not "takes"
    The woman needs caffeine...

    d

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  9. Ladies... and germs... children of all ages... we have something... I'm not sure what it is... but we have some thing here for you!

    My word verification is nwDORK... so what's up with that????

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  10. This was a great Friday Five - and my grandmother is smiling from above on this one. She was the guru of garage sales. So I do this one in her memory.

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  11. Number 3, but...not being a garage sale person, I posted on the reverse. PLEASE visit me here and, seriously, offer your words of wisdom.

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  12. Here's a better link to revhoney. Remember, don't use @ in your links!

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  13. I played here . "No reasonable offer of opinion rejected!"

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  14. This was a fun way to start the day. Here's my junk, er...play.

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  15. Got mine here at my shiny new blog layout.

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  16. I'm not really much of a garage saler, but I played anyway here.

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  17. Just getting in the mood to do some "selling" of my own to another clergywoman (my sister) so I decided to answer here

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  18. Thanks, now I'm in the mood to spend some money. :) My Friday Five is posted here.

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  19. I played here.

    I really hope this works!

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  20. Thanks willsmama and Songbird! I played here.

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  21. I played, even though I only rarely shop garage sales.

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  22. tamyboOur church garage sales have done several things to the good...
    people purge their not wanted anymore
    people get good stuff for good prices
    everyone works together
    it really doesn't take six months to prepare and sort etc.
    your stuff is another's treasure...

    Two quicki stories. During one of the sales near Christmas a man and his young son were walking out and the little boy said, Oh Daddy I am so completely excited about this great gift. Thankyou so much, He says you'll get this at Christmas.... Oh I know I know... thanks dad. One lady working at the sale got up and said we should have given him that train. Oh no I said...he was so proud to have afforded it for his child.

    The first one there was a back lighted black tiger for the top of the TV. You know the kind with the bulb in the middle of the tiger= I thought of buying it as a joke. it was the FIRST thing to be sold.

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  23. I sure wish someone would have some garage sales scheduled for 7-10 PM instead of the early morning kind.

    I played here.

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  24. Well I might be last (but I'm usually well and truly tucked up asleep in bed by the time these are posted) and my play is now on my blog

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  25. You can find my contribution here. I know I'm late. Please be gentle, it's my first time...playing with the RevGals, that is.

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