Yawn yawn, wakey wakey autumn 2017

They have what we call "garage sales" - don't sell the garage but put everything in the drive and sell from there. There is a limit as to how many times one can do this - don't want your neighbour turning their property into a flea market. I have never had one of these sales. Don't want the insult of someone offering me 10 cents for something worth much more (at least in my opinion and can't you just picture me putting said object where ... ) and then having to put away anything that didn't sell.

 

You could put price tags on things

I do that if I know how much I want for stuff

 

Yes, @Zigs that is what people do but buyers still come up and insult with ridiculous offers. I know people who have had the same problem here with Kijiji - a north american version of ebay. Price $200. firm, someone phones and offers $30. I won't go down that road. Too stubborn..

 

Morning early people

Raining here, a lot milder

Have a good day everyone

 

Good morning all, Have a good day, stay warm and dry and above all safe and well.
God bless.

 

Good day everyone
It's still pitch here and the temperature out there is 14f and our high today will be 18f then we're slipping down to 0f tonight.

I plan to drive to a nearby town this morning to file some papers at the courthouse and then I shall have the rest of the day to putter. Inside.

Have a good day and play safe!

 

Hello all, late Wednesday here. Yes, @CanadianLori and @Zigs we also have garage sales here, where folks put stuff out on tables or clothes on the front lawn. hang signs etc. BUT, we, my husband and I do it a little different, we have three auction houses near us, each accept certain "level" of stuff and dawn certain "level" of bidders to the auction. So we take our "stuff" to those houses depending on what we have. It has served the purpose well with cleaning out his parents and grandparents home over the last 6 years. And to unload some antiques we have collected and with to finally "cash" in them. We actually do quiet well. And don't have to sit in the front of the lawn watching folks.

Anyway, work today, just a meeting. Thursday, the pharmacy that we use for all the meds is catering a holiday lunch for us. So it will be a easy, fun day.

 

Morning all! Hope you are well on this early morning. Was going to add "bright" to that but it's definitely still dark!

Hope you are all keeping warm, sounds like @CanadianLori and @redstar may be getting very cold!!!

Busy week here, lots of work and early mornings as usual - we don't slow down for Christmas as where I work runs most of the way through it! There is still ice everywhere so walking places is treacherous. Most roads have cleared due to the warmer weather over the past few days but there are also still a fair few blobs of snow around.

Not been on the best of health recently and had a few spots of not great news, so just trying to keep everything going for a while! Hope you are all keeping well and your Thursdays are warm and happy!

 

Morning early people

Rain here too.

Could do with a bit of sun, batteries get low either side of the solstice

Not using the auction rooms here anymore @redstar Last lot I put in didn't sell and they didn't tell me, just dumped it

It included a printer's tray that I know I could have got £10 for at a car boot

Car boot sale here isn't open in the winter though.

Have a good day everyone

 

Good morning all, Have a good day, stay warm and dry and above all safe and well.
God bless.

 

@shiney , then I think, the "Boot Sale" is like a "Flea Market" , we also have areas that people can rent a small /tiny area to put up a table with their stuff to sell. Or some don't pay for the area at all. Like a shopping-parking lot over on the side where parking is not needed, they will hang a sign, "Neighborhood Garage Sale" and several families with have their stuff out.

Whatever the name, its the never ending issue of getting rid of the "stuff". People make a business out of it, cleaning out someone's dead relatives houses for a fee. (but you all know that). When I was in the nursing home field, the children would tell me of how, with their grandparents stuff they just put it to the curb. I am like---there could have been historic value or something, at least contact an auction house --some come out and look and give you money.

Happy Thursday folks, sipping coffee, and watching some wee birds hopping on the hosta seed tails eating the seeds in the new fallen fresh snow. I love the chill in the air. Off to the office soon. Have a good day all.

 

Good day everyone
@toppington I hope your health improves and just to be sure that you'll be on the mend, I'm sending some of my good health via data stream.

@shiney I hope you are able to see lots of your ex-staff and they haven't all retired as yet

We have farmers markets in the warm months where quite often there are also tables that sell car boot type items. We also have "flea" markets that sound very much like your large markets. Everything from fresh baking to antiques. They charge quite a bit for a booth at these places and unless you had lots to sell, not very profitable.

It is freezing here. We don't expect to get above 30f during the day or 15f at night for the foreseeable future. This is typical. I just make sure to dress warmly and all is well.

Have a warm