The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

You're supposed to tap first.

Your Scandinavian customs are strange and wonderful to me.

It's a Larry Craig custom.

[Barrister]

When I lived in PA I heard garage or yard sale, in CT I only hear tag sale.  I assume it's all the NYC transplants that didn't have garages or yards.

This naturally raises the question of where folks without yards or garages put their stuff.

Kijiji

[Admiral Yi]

[Caliga]

Kijiji

Hod bless you.

[Syt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijiji

[Capetan Mihali]

This naturally raises the question of where folks without yards or garages put their stuff.

Sidewalk I would assume.

Yeah, plus stoop/steps.  I've also been to ones where you have to walk through the house and they have the stuff out in the back porch or courtyard area.

[Barrister]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijiji

Huh.  Kijiji is huge in Canada, didn't know it wasn't in the US.

[Grey Fox]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijiji

Huh.  Kijiji is huge in Canada, didn't know it wasn't in the US.

Yeah, they like craigslist over there.

[Admiral Yi]

Canadians. 

Placing a classified ad is totally different from holding a yard sale.

[Grey Fox]

Canadians. 

Placing a classified ad is totally different from holding a yard sale.

How so?

[Caliga]

Around here, the hicks nail "YARD SALE" signs to all the telephone poles near their houses, and Mexicans flock like flies to shit at the advertised date/time.

[Admiral Yi]

How so?

You place a classified ad when you have one specific thing to sell.  You hold a garage sale when you have a bunch of junk that you want to get rid of.

[derspiess]

Around here, the hicks nail "YARD SALE" signs to all the telephone poles near their houses, and Mexicans flock like flies to shit at the advertised date/time.

Around here it's old people.  And they show up at 5:00am regardless of the starting time posted.

[Grey Fox]

How so?

You place a classified ad when you have one specific thing to sell.  You hold a garage sale when you have a bunch of junk that you want to get rid of.

what if you place multiple classified ad?

[Admiral Yi]

what if you place multiple classified ad?

Dude, the kind of stuff that gets sold is used clothes, old albums, old dishes, ugly lamps, used kids clothing, used toys and games, stuff like that.  Not big ticket items.  Junk.