If you’ve ever been to a garage sale you could probably name a few things that you might find. People all seem to have pretty similar items and they all seem to want to sell them at the same time. This, of course, doesn’t surprise me! We as a culture go through waves of things we are told we NEED by advertisers, and so we go out and spend our hard-earned money on this stuff, and then a few years later it’s out on our lawn for sale.
I would consider myself a garage sale connoisseur, and thus, I’d like to point out a few that I keep seeing all over the place…
- An Old Bicycle: Every single garage sale has a bicycle that is barely drivable at this point. I’m not sure why people think that anyone wants that bicycle, but everyone puts it out anyway and that’s why it’s at the top of my list.
- Puzzles: If you are buying puzzles at garage sales… you are a psychopath! How could you know if all of the pieces are there? If you spend 3 hours trying to put together a blue sky only to realize the piece is missing wouldn’t that drive you insane? Yet, every garage sale seems to come equipped with a few puzzles.
- The Original Xbox: Cool yeah, that’s what we want… an original Xbox, with potentially the least usable controller, ever invented. The Xbox, like the PS2 falls into that weird place with gaming currently, where it is not nearly vintage enough to be cool again, but just old enough where it’s not really all that fun to play anymore. Unless you are someone who is trying to relive a time in their life, an Xbox is exceedingly useless.
- WiFi Hotspot: Who would buy a wireless hotspot from a garage sale? No wireless internet plan or anything… just a black paperweight that is only theoretically capable of the internet. Those hotspots are evolving so quickly that even last year’s model would be useless now. This brand of hotspots is already well into multi-device connection and cameras and a bunch of other stuff… meanwhile you want me to buy this 3G hotspot? No thanks.
- A Copy of “Dirty Dancing” on VHS: First of all, why are you selling me VHS tapes AT ALL, in order to play one I’d have to go to my grandparent’s house. I’m legitimately not even sure where I would get a VHS player in 2020, and yet here it is. Patrick Swayze in all of his glory. I should also include “Independence Day” in this list along with “Dumb & Dumber”.
- Water Bottles: Gross. I don’t want something your mouth has touched. It’s bad enough I’m about to buy your clothes that you haven’t washed in years, I’m not going to buy water bottles that you drank out of. Most of these water bottles are weirdly branded from places your dad worked, and now you think they might go perfectly with my hike? Think again.
I’m sure you could throw a few more items on this list as well, but I thought I would just get you started with a few that I couldn’t help but point out. I urge you to make a bingo board next time you go garage sale shopping, might be a really fun afternoon!
