I’ve been to garage sales that were selling the following from the above list:
Pets
Windows
Wood polish
Shampoo
2x4s
Roof shingles
Cotton balls
Military ID card (Ok, it was some identification of some sort from WWII. I don’t know if that’s quite what you mean or not.)
Also, I’ve seen garage sales with various car parts, but I don’t know enough about cars to say whether any of them were brake pads or fuel pumps. There was one with a shady-looking fellow selling dozens of car radios. I haven’t seen any wall-to-wall carpeting, but there are certainly floor rugs of various sizes as well as carpet scraps. The strangest things I’ve seen are probably the bizarre number of used breast pumps (seriously, they’re fairly common) and a book about improving your marital sex life. (The couple in question were seated directly in front of me as I browsed through the pile of books.)
I once had a project where I needed a small boy (girl wouldn’t work - wrong frequency). Couldn’t find one for love of money. In the end it didn’t matter as I was also unable to get all the maple syrup I needed.
I’ve seen doors at garage sales, and windows in antique stores, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see windows at a garage sale. Unless you mean Windows™?
I’ve seen rolls of unused wallpaper as well. In fact, what I see most often at garage sales is the leftovers from remodeling projects of various sorts.
At (at least) one garage sale I put on, I took the gimme toothpaste tubes that I get from the dentist and put a 10cent sticker on them. I sold them, too.
Things you’ll never find in my garage sales are my entire collection of comic books or my vintage Lionel Train Set. This is primarily due to the fact that when I was away at summer camp my sister sold in a garage sale all my comic books and my vintage Lionel Train Set.
I’m having a hard time believing these are authentic Family Circus comics, and not some satire site using the comics but adding their own captions. Where are you getting these?
And yet you failed to ask them if the book worked.
I almost never see old computer games except flight simulator or the Sims. Or old toys from the 60s. Or old lunchboxes. Or telescopes or microscopes. Or decent CDs. Virtually anything that might sell on ebay.
When I was young, I went to garage sales with my mom and she bought a little box just chock full of ‘perfume nips’ (tiny thin glass vials, you snap off one end and dab on the drop of perfume inside) with a color coded key inside the lid telling what the fragrances were. That set off a life-long love for, and interest in, perfume. I imagine they don’t make perfume nips any more :(. Now I go to yard sales, look at all the pathetic crap similar to MY pathetic crap and wish they’d run in and bring out mom’s old stash of 'fume she doesn’t use any more. What I wouldn’t give to run across a half bottle of Miss Dior, but no. Not even any shitty Bath & Body Works Fruit Puke!
In my neighborhood those end up in the random free boxes on the curb. Lord, I wish I were joking.
I was out for a walk and saw a Hitachi in a box marked Free For You! This was about 6 blocks from my house. When I returned with my camera it was gone. Not the box- just the vibrator.
