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Garage Sales And The Hunt For Them

What’s more fun, the garage sale or the hunt for the sale when we find ourselves with an insatiable hunger to go out and find stuff? For sure, humans (being the cheapskates at heart they really are) would say that the sale itself is the most fun but it’s probably the case that the actual hunt is most enjoyable above all else. We’ve convinced ourselves, after all, that we need more stuff and were going to get it anyway we can.

Whole industries have sprung up on the notion that hitting garage sales is one of the great American pastimes, though why someone would consider a digital sport watch found a garage sale as being similar to finding the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is a question for the ages. At any rate, people’s eyes tend to glaze over with greed and lust whenever they spot an open garage with a bunch of stuff in front of it.

So, then, what does one say when one finds one’s self out and about in a myriad of local neighborhoods on a Saturday morning searching for signs of a garage sale? Usually, if we’re garage sale enthusiasts, we don’t say much of anything other than ‘point me to that electric guitar for sale at the garage sale down the street.’ Unfortunately, that garage sale is probably being run by a couple of elderly ladies actually selling lace doilies.

The guitar advertised for sale probably went long ago and those doilies are the only things left, so a box of them probably will end up in the basement or the attic because everybody knows a garage sale in which nothing was bought is like an African safari in which not even a lonely and forlorn gazelle happened to be spotted. And, truly, hunting for a garage sale is kind of like going out on a safari in many respects.

Maybe one has decided that the spare bedroom that’s now unoccupied because Junior has gone off to college would make the perfect fitness room and the need for a bit of fitness equipment has now arisen. This is so even when an expensive gym membership was purchased just a few months ago and has been used a grand total of one time, right? That high-tech fitness-room-to-be certainly needs some stuff and the garage sale is the place to get it.

The reality of things, though, is that we really might not find much of true worth when we go out on these hunts but it’s still a vicarious pleasure we find in the hunting. We might turn up a case of old 33 RPM record albums (even though we don’t have a stereo phonograph) and we have to have it. Besides, those albums might be of bands that we once danced to way back in high school.

At heart, it really matters little whether we find anything that we actually need at a garage sale. Instead, what really matters is that we’re out there looking for our own ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre, ‘ and we go to great lengths to find that treasure. Usually, it’s been looted long ago and we normally find that what we’re left holding is not much. But it certainly thrills us with the adventure, right?

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