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First time in 5 years (Original Post) multigraincracker Jun 2022 OP
The moolah is in the gas tank bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #1
Sorry to hear it. During the first wave of the pandemic I went in the hole and gave up my booths. Vinca Jun 2022 #2
Same here for the first wave, but multigraincracker Jun 2022 #3
I stopped at my first yard sale in a year yesterday morning and couldn't stop myself from Vinca Jun 2022 #5
Score, just the kind of item multigraincracker Jun 2022 #6
What mall? blm Jun 2022 #4
The Mega Mall. multigraincracker Jun 2022 #7

bucolic_frolic

(46,940 posts)
1. The moolah is in the gas tank
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 05:38 AM
Jun 2022

Slowest eBay month since 09.2001 for me. Nothing moves.

On the roads I notice not much traffic weekdays. Gun humpers not humping as much, must be saving money on bullets.

Vinca

(51,008 posts)
2. Sorry to hear it. During the first wave of the pandemic I went in the hole and gave up my booths.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 05:38 AM
Jun 2022

I really miss it, but just as it seemed it might be safe to jump back in the economic debacle started. We have a flea market that finally reopened. I may do that after I've fully recovered from my hip replacement. If I wasn't a geezer, I might consider having my own shop, but it doesn't seem like a good thing to do at this stage of life.

multigraincracker

(34,057 posts)
3. Same here for the first wave, but
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 06:37 AM
Jun 2022

then the mall opened back up and it had record sales for the 25 years it has been in business. Pent-up demand. Hope that happens again. They dropped the rent during the shut down and that saved me.

Thursdays and Fridays, it's on the road for yard and garage sales. This week there were way fewer buyers than usual. Lots of sales with most asking near retail prices and they were not moving anything. Right now is a good time to buy and bad time to sell.

I hardly ever find Snoopy items, but hit one sale where a lady was selling her husbands collections of stuff and got some Hallmark Snoopys for a buck.

I have a new 40X36 barn I finally got done and it's filling up. Made it out of a couple of 40 foot shipping containers, spread apart with a raised roof on top of it.

Vinca

(51,008 posts)
5. I stopped at my first yard sale in a year yesterday morning and couldn't stop myself from
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 10:19 AM
Jun 2022

buying an antique milk can with the name of a local psychiatric hospital embedded in it. Haven't a clue what I'll do with it, but I worked there for a short time long, long ago and just had to have it. Especially since I remembered when the dairy was still in operation. I think picking is a psychiatric disorder itself. LOL.

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