With Memorial day just around the corner, we are in prime season for America's biggest retail sectors, and least understood. Everyone understands retail for sure but this sector.................Garage Sales.
Garage Sales generate 1.5 - 2 Billion dollars a year in sales in the United States.
Can you imagine that? Maybe our Government should have a little sale themselves.
So my take on the history of garage sales...............We buy stuff we HAVE to have- we love it for awhile, then we like for awhile, then we are tired of it, then we think, I'll pack this away and maybe I will get it out another time, we unpack it and then we say " this is awful, why did I ever buy this" We have a garage sale and place hated item in sale for a fraction of what we paid for it when we Loved it. If is sells well maybe we made $1.00 if we do not sell it we think- nobody wanted that ugly thing- and we take it to the goodwill store.
1.5-2 billion dollars of junk we hate!
That said guess what I am doing this Friday and Saturday- you guessed it I have a garage full of things I wondered why I ever had to have or just no longer want or need, all ready to sell to the next person who will likely think it is exactly what they want and next year sell it in their own garage sale.
The cycle does not end there though. We pack up our things, deliver them to good will and on the way home we see a garage sale sign and what do we do? we stop and we buy!
Fun though isn't it? It really is just a hobby we don't really need those things we buy at garage sales, if we needed it we would have bought it in the store new!
1 comment:
I don't do much of "this"here. I do like flea markets tho.
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