Garage Sale Culture

Our small town LOVES garage sales. It's so hard to get stuff here that folks jump at the chance to see what someone else may have acquired from down south that they didn't know they needed. Plus it's as much of a social gathering as a sale. In Anchorage when we had garage sales it was just about getting rid of stuff. You expected to barter and if you made a few bucks it was gravy. Here folks pay asking price without even a question and although we did want to get rid of stuff there was potential for genuine profit. We took four pick-up loads of items we've purged over the last couple years to a multi-family, multi-lodge garage sale. We didn't sell half our stuff but still came home with an extra six Franklins. I think we are going to have to have another sale to try to move the rest of the pile.