# The biggest rummage sale in town is doing this - AGAIN (Not quite Pit worthy)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 19, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923 "2015-06-19T04:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923/1 "2015-06-19T04:23:16Z")

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For the past 20 years at least, our local symphony has had a ginormous rummage sale every summer, and this is their weekend for it again. It starts on Wednesday evening, with a $10 admission, hors d’oeuvres, wine, string quartets, etc. and is open about 8 hours a day until Saturday.

In the past, it was held in a closed grocery store or similarly sized large storefront, but for the past two years, it’s been held in the old library, which is a 3-story building that has no utilities except for generator-powered lights, is not handicapped accessible, and has about 10 parking spaces.

😕

My guess is that the building was free, but I can’t imagine that the loss in sales, and “shrinkage” too because there are a lot of nooks and crannies in this building, would compensate.

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**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923/2 "2015-06-19T04:41:20Z")

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Have you talked to them about it?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923/3 "2015-06-20T18:11:17Z")

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The biggest funeral for the crummiest person I can think of was for Nixon, but I didn’t attend.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923/4 "2015-06-20T18:17:23Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> The biggest funeral for the crummiest person I can think of was for Nixon, but I didn’t attend.

I think you just posted in the wrong thread. :o

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923/5 "2015-06-20T20:01:31Z")

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Damn that’s the second time in 2 days. Apparently I have a fixation on the bastard.