What’s More Fun, The Garage Sale Or The Hunt For The Sale?
There comes a time in every person’s life where he or she considers hitting a garage sale to find some sort of item or another. This is mainly because we as a human species are exceedingly cheap at heart, for one thing. Also, we’ve convinced ourselves that what we need is more junk in our lives on a 24/7 basis. Adventures in garage sale hunting, however, will quickly disabuse anyone of the notion that they need more junk.
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.
Never mind that that guitar probably can be bought new just as cheaply these days down at the local department store, which is really saying something about how versatile retail sales can be on occasion. At any rate, one must think of hitting garage sales as being more like going out on one of those old-time African safaris, for instance, complete with bush jackets and pith helmets and beaters to drive all of that garage sale game towards the hunter.
Perhaps one is going on safari — we mean ‘hunting for a garage sale’ — to find some fitness equipment. Now, never mind that we once paid thousands of dollars for a gym membership that quickly fell into disuse when we found out that working out in a gym actually caused sweat. No, what we’ve convinced ourselves of is that the equipment for sale at some garage get-together will look perfect in the new fitness room were going to build. Maybe.
In reality, it hardly makes a bit of difference whether or not we really managed to locate anything of any worth at one of these sales. Instead, we’re just like those big game hunters of olden times; we’re out for the biggest game we can find, which in this case means maybe a box of old 1970s-era disco music cassettes that we once danced wildly to in our high school days. It kind of thrills us like getting on a roller coaster used to do.
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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