# Garage Sale Signage - Heavy Sigh **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901 "2005-08-20T18:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/21 "2005-08-21T18:24:22Z")
Also, garage sale signs _may_ be permitted on traffic light poles or traffic sign poles, but they are generally prohibited on utility poles. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/22 "2005-08-21T18:36:23Z")
Guys, guys… What are we selling in The Big Garage Sale That Is MPSIMS? The Mods? Old threads? Smileys? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/23 "2005-08-21T19:54:10Z")
Smileys - three for a dollar! :eek: 🆒😃 Mods - make us an offer. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/24 "2005-08-21T21:31:33Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Smileys - three for a dollar! :eek: 🆒😃 > > Mods - make us an offer. Or, ‘Smiley’s—3 for a dollar’ to echo **Bibliocat**'s peeve. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/25 "2005-08-22T01:55:17Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > When I am Queen of the World, I will pass a law… > > If you leave up Yard Sale signs after the sale is over, people can come to your house and buy your personal belongings for pennies on the dollar. Flat screen TV? $50. Sofa? $5. :clapping smiley: My cousin put up a sign for his friend’s yard sale on the telephone pole right outside my granny’s house on the corner. Huge chunk of odd-shaped plastic, covered in scribbles stating when/where/what we have/etc. _screwed into the god damn pole_. The sign wasn’t so bad. But the sign is still there. Did I mention her yard sale was in June? We’re waiting to see just how long it’s gonna take him to take that stupid thing down. I’m betting on Christmas, 2007. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/26 "2005-08-23T17:36:33Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > When you are Queen the world will be a much better place. My former home was on a corner in a residential neighborhood. I didn’t mind people putting brightly colored signs on the electrical pole in my front yard. I **did** mind having to take them down myself two weeks later. Your problem was waiting 2 weeks. _I_ like to take them down about 2 minutes after they go up. If they are on the tree lawn, they are on city property (or state, if you live on a state highway) and need a permit, if they are back farther, they are on private property and therefore trespassing occured to put them there unless you had prior permission. Light and utility poles belong to the city or the utility company, again, probably illegal or vandalism. I might be the reason you can’t find your garage sales. I hate those signs. Buy an ad in the paper, organize a community-wide garage sale date, truck your stuff to a rummage sale, or donate/trash your old stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/27 "2005-08-23T17:55:19Z")
Once when I was little my mom had a garage sale and one of our neighbors drove around town and took down all the signs he could find because he didn’t want strangers driving through our neighborhood. That guy was total asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901/28 "2005-08-23T18:48:18Z")
I bet you guys didn’t even _know_ he owned the neighbourhood. Putz. (Him, not you.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-sale-signage-heavy-sigh/317901.md?page=1)