Garage Sale or Auction?

**PrairieRose** · 08-25-2006, 09:08 AM

Given the choice, would you prefer to go to the Sat. morning garage sales or an estate auction? I am facing this choice but am leaning toward the garage sales b/c it will take much less time. I love auctions if I'm wanting to kill a whole day but if not I prefer the g.sales.

**frugalfarmwife** · 08-25-2006, 09:33 AM

For me it would be the auction, in the past I've gone to a lot of estate auctions and gotten great items for our home and lots of great stuff to sell on ebay, you just never know what you're going to find in some of those $1.00 box lots!

Also auctions are big social events for everyone in our area, gives us a chance to get together and catch up on all the gossip, and gives all the old farmers in the area a chance to pick on me and call me "the pony lady" lol.

And when we'd accumulate to much extra stuff then I just box it up and run it to our local weekly auction

kj

**MarshHen** · 08-25-2006, 10:30 AM

Actually, I love both. I guess I do more garage sales now that we have moved though because the auctions are held in the next county were we used to live. I will however, go to the auctions more often once we get into the new house.

Oh yeah, those $1.00 box lots are addictive, LOL.

**slowtypinwoman** · 08-25-2006, 10:32 AM

For the "fun factor" I'd go to the auction. I love those, but they do tend to kill the whole day. But in all honesty it really depends what I looking for.

**Katybird** · 08-25-2006, 10:57 AM

I prefer the garage sales or rummage sales. In my area the antique dealers and junkers hit the auctions and it is almost impossible to get any bargains. We have too many "perpetual garage sales" in our area, you know the ones where people keep junk at in their yard year round and call it a garage sale (except it nevvvvvver ends). The people that live down the road from me have done that, they started out with a little junk in their yard and then added a little more and a little more and then they drug in an old ramshackle trailer house and made it into a junk shop. We are out in the country so there are no ordinances or zoning authorities so there is nothing we can do except suffer through it and pray for a well aimed lightening strike from above.