I dont understand my spouse..... women and garage sales

[PocketThunder]

Why do i need to store countless tubs of crap in my basement for my spouse to sell at a garage sale next summer?  Next summer is 6 months away and the space in our house storing this crap is more valuable than the $34 she will make at the garage sale next summer.      

[oldgold69]

they cant throw it away has too much value to them.  my wife and sister in laws hold three or four rubbages a year spend two days moving crap out of the house only to bring most of it back  if it makes them happy i dont say a word

[PocketThunder]

and then she just asked me if i will take two vacation days off of work next summer to help watch the kids while she has the sale.  Now, i'll certainly help out, because my Charger spending is way over what she spends on herself in a year.  but c'mon! all this work for less than $100 even...         

[skip68]

I could ask a similar question to answer your question:
Why do men store car parts that they will never need? (or they have double, triple sets of? )
Mrs.Skip68

[Silver R/T]

Why do i need to store countless tubs of crap in my basement for my spouse to sell at a garage sale next summer?  Next summer is 6 months away and the space in our house storing this crap is more valuable than the $34 she will make at the garage sale next summer.      

I guess women are like that, that is especially annoying when they do it in your garage.

[Mike DC]

 
When you care about something you may have a hard time just throwing it in the trash.  Finances be damned. 


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It's the same principle that makes you wish somebody would restore the oddball-optioned and raggedy local Chargers that you totally don't have the resources to mess with yourself. 

Just because you don't have the garage space and cash to save one of them, that still doesn't mean you like seeing it scrapped.  You certainly wouldn't enjoy being the one pulling the lever at the crusher, would you?  You might even do some work trying to get it into the hands of someone else who will fix it up. 

It starts to sound like your wife's garage sale thing, doesn't it?

[BigRed66]

Why do i need to store countless tubs of crap in my basement for my spouse to sell at a garage sale next summer?  Next summer is 6 months away and the space in our house storing this crap is more valuable than the $34 she will make at the garage sale next summer.      

Dunno what to say, bro, but this past September, we sold off probably 45% of our "crap" (the rest of which, naturally, still resides in the garage where MY car oughta be, next to my wife's dry Jeep...but, I digress. Guess I'm brushin' snow off my load AGAIN this winter...) but, we made over a thousand bucks. Never admit this, but our wives, somewhere deep down, ARE smarter than us....just ask them...

[General_01]

and then she just asked me if i will take two vacation days off of work next summer to help watch the kids while she has the sale.  Now, i'll certainly help out, because my Charger spending is way over what she spends on herself in a year.  but c'mon! all this work for less than $100 even...         

I think you are looking at this all wrong. You are not just making $100. You are making good will with your wife so that you can spend money on the car and go on trips to the Areo car meets and other such things without too much trouble. It is something she wants to do. Help her out and take a couple days off. She is making $100. What you are making is priceless.

We have only had a couple of garage sales here. Usually we put the stuff in in my in-laws garage sale. We are probably due for another one next year.

[rav440]

I could ask a similar question to answer your question:
Why do men store car parts that they will never need? (or they have double, triple sets of? )
Mrs.Skip68

hey , back off , we have our reasons . 

[WingCharger]

We dont have a basement, so all that crap ends up in our garage. It piles up, and eventually there isnt enough room to do  anything.

[runningman]

I enjoy helping out the the annual garage sale, there are some fairly nice looking neighbors that stop by 

[kidsixpack]

My wife has one every year.  She is very orginized and people come early to get the kids cloths.  There is always a lot of household items and lots of kids stuff.  The most expensive item has been $25 and over the last 10 years the lowest total has been $700 and the most has been just a touch under $1,300.  I don't bitch about all the tubs in the basement anymore!
KID

[Old Moparz]

Garage sales seem like an interesting idea, but we just haven't had one. My wife & I have talked about it because we have so much crap & need to get rid of things. Our neighbors did one a few years ago & said they made about $400 from it. There's several good reasons to have one, like....

1)   It's basically recycling stuff so it doesn't end up in a landfill.
2)   You can make a few bucks off things you probably would have paid to have hauled away.
3)   Getting rid of unwanted crap fees up space.
4)   We both hate tossing something out that's still usable to someone else.

The biggest reason we haven't had one yet is based on how some drivers behave coming here. We've discovered that where we live is not the easiest of locations to drive in & out of because of these a-holes. People have either driven off the retaining wall, or hit the steps near the house, even ran over the wire fence around the garden, or just gouged the front lawn leaving tire marks.

I don't understand how they can be so damn bad here when I can come & go with my 20+ foot, quad cab Ram, with a 24 foot long trailer hooked to the back. I'm not keen on putting up a sign inviting these same, yard assaulting nimrods back for more mayhem. If I do, any money I make from selling them my trash will go to repairing their damages.

I could ask a similar question to answer your question:
Why do men store car parts that they will never need? (or they have double, triple sets of? )
Mrs.Skip68

Parts we never need? No such thing. It's called "Emergency Reconditioning & Replacement Inventory" It's there for a good reason. (at least speaking for myself) You just can't get them from the dealer anymore & need spares. I've always picked up extras over the years to save, or if I see a part in better shape than one on the car I get it & swap it.

Never need....... now that's funny.   

[pettyfan43]

I could ask a similar question to answer your question:
Why do men store car parts that they will never need? (or they have double, triple sets of? )
Mrs.Skip68

Well the CAR PARTS are actually useful!!!! 

[71ChallengeHer]

I don't get it. I was never into the garage sale and yard sale thing. 

[greenpigs]

  When I went with my grandma to garage sales it was an adventure, I swear she slid that Torino around some of those corners. I also picked up some car magazines from the 60's & redline hotwheels, model cars and a few pocket knives. Now most people check E-Bay before they sell something so finding anything rare doesn't happen much. My wife likes going to garage sales but doesn't want to bother with running one & neither do I.

[DodgeChargerNeeded]

We had a garage sale this summer whatever didn't sell got a free sign put on it for the rest of the weekend and then it went into the dumpster.

[Orange_Crush]

Wife and I tried a garage sale once.

At 6:30 AM I told an old lady that the newspaper clearly said 7:30AM and get the F*** out of my yard and if she knocked on my door I'd break her arm off and beat her over the head with it.

At 8 AM, I had already told 2 guys that the car was not for sale at any price.

At 8:30 AM, I had to explain the concept of "you break it you bought it" to a pushy broad who could not understand why I got so upset at her little angel for breaking a glass tabletop.

At 9AM, I had to yell at another old lady who could not understand WHY I could not drop the price on a Gucci watch from 80 bucks to 10 bucks.

by 10 AM I had shotgunned my first beer

by 10:30 AM, I loudly told everyone to get the hell off my property, the sale was over and I didn't give a rat's ass that the paper said 12.

by the next day, my wife was speaking to me again.

The day after that, I took all the crap I was trying to sell to goodwill and took a write-off on my taxes.

And that was my last garage sale.

[moparstuart]

Wife and I tried a garage sale once.

At 6:30 AM I told an old lady that the newspaper clearly said 7:30AM and get the F*** out of my yard and if she knocked on my door I'd break her arm off and beat her over the head with it.

At 8 AM, I had already told 2 guys that the car was not for sale at any price.

At 8:30 AM, I had to explain the concept of "you break it you bought it" to a pushy broad who could not understand why I got so upset at her little angel for breaking a glass tabletop.

At 9AM, I had to yell at another old lady who could not understand WHY I could not drop the price on a Gucci watch from 80 bucks to 10 bucks.

by 10 AM I had shotgunned my first beer

by 10:30 AM, I loudly told everyone to get the hell off my property, the sale was over and I didn't give a rat's ass that the paper said 12.

by the next day, my wife was speaking to me again.

The day after that, I took all the crap I was trying to sell to goodwill and took a write-off on my taxes.

And that was my last garage sale.

thats awesome     

[PocketThunder]

Wife and I tried a garage sale once.

At 6:30 AM I told an old lady that the newspaper clearly said 7:30AM and get the F*** out of my yard and if she knocked on my door I'd break her arm off and beat her over the head with it.

At 8 AM, I had already told 2 guys that the car was not for sale at any price.

At 8:30 AM, I had to explain the concept of "you break it you bought it" to a pushy broad who could not understand why I got so upset at her little angel for breaking a glass tabletop.

At 9AM, I had to yell at another old lady who could not understand WHY I could not drop the price on a Gucci watch from 80 bucks to 10 bucks.

by 10 AM I had shotgunned my first beer

by 10:30 AM, I loudly told everyone to get the hell off my property, the sale was over and I didn't give a rat's ass that the paper said 12.

by the next day, my wife was speaking to me again.

The day after that, I took all the crap I was trying to sell to goodwill and took a write-off on my taxes.

And that was my last garage sale.

thats awesome     

Thats reality!!

[BMOTOXSTAR]

Do what I do,
Sneak all that stuff and sell it on E-Bay little by little, she will never notice.

[Old Moparz]

Wife and I tried a garage sale once.

At 6:30 AM I told an old lady that the newspaper clearly said 7:30AM and get the F*** out of my yard and if she knocked on my door I'd break her arm off and beat her over the head with it.

At 8 AM, I had already told 2 guys that the car was not for sale at any price.

At 8:30 AM, I had to explain the concept of "you break it you bought it" to a pushy broad who could not understand why I got so upset at her little angel for breaking a glass tabletop.

At 9AM, I had to yell at another old lady who could not understand WHY I could not drop the price on a Gucci watch from 80 bucks to 10 bucks.

by 10 AM I had shotgunned my first beer

by 10:30 AM, I loudly told everyone to get the hell off my property, the sale was over and I didn't give a rat's ass that the paper said 12.

by the next day, my wife was speaking to me again.

The day after that, I took all the crap I was trying to sell to goodwill and took a write-off on my taxes.

And that was my last garage sale.

thats awesome     

Thats reality!!

Now add a 30" high retaining wall into the mix, not one you can drive into, but drive off of.   

[moparstuart]

pictures please     

[Steve P.]

I can't say a word about what my wife does. I have tons of parts and yes, extras. She has clothes and books packing our entire house... MOst of the books she buys at G-sales and online for cheap. Then when she has read them she puts them on Ebay and sells them for more than what she originally paid in most cases. She sells them in groups.

The last time she and my kids wanted to have a garage sale I ended up selling all my woodworking equipment for more than I had in them...  They didn't make squat, but I made enough to pay off my last 65'... 

All in all, I can't say squat.... 

[craigandlynda]

i live in northern minnesota and operate a business, year round full time, called trader craig sales...it is a second-hand store, with the upgrades of collectible coins, stamps, knives, fishing lures and other neat stuff...in the summer, every monday morning i open up at 10:30, and there are several pickups waiting for me to open...they are crammed with the leftovers from the weekend's garage and yard sales...i "triage" the stuff, picking out a few items in each and either take them on consignment or buy 'em outright...
i find several things all the time: 1) some things just won't sell in our area- the biggest non-seller is exercise equipment...the number one item in our local scrap pile is exeercise bikes. i won't take them and have turned down people who want to pay me to take them. 2) sometimes an item didn't sell because it was overpriced- especially furniture. 3) some things won't sell because they are obsolete- like typewriters, word processors, etc.4) I AVOID MOST ELECTRONICS. they are being sold because something dioesn't work ,almost all the time. 5)garage sales are too dependent on things like weather, poor location, competing events ant same time, etc.
anyway, women, as thw gatherers ofour species, are genetically inclined to do garage sales...that's why.