Garage sale

Popular motivations for a garage sale are for "spring cleaning", preparing to move home or earning extra money.

Items typically sold at garage sales include old clothing, books, toys, household decorations, lawn and garden tools, sports equipment, and board games.

Buyers who arrive before the hours of the sale to review the items are known as "early birds" and are often professional restorers or resellers.

Advertising for the event of a garage sale is typically done by posting a sign, usually made from cardboard or plastic, in a public location.

Signs are posted with the intent that people passing by will take note of the event, time, and location of the garage sale.

In addition to signs, many people advertise their garage sales in the newspaper in a dedicated section or on websites.

Large areas of a community then hold a communal garage sale involving numerous families at the same time.

The Garage Sale Trail was designed to reduce the amount of goods dumped instead of sold and re-used.

[10] The now semi-annual City Wide Garage Sale[11] was first held in October 1990 in El Cerrito, California.

On any given year, total garage sales number at least 500, while Fargo, North Dakota surpasses Bismarck as the state's largest city.