Yard Sale?

[asterroc]

Are there laws against yard sales anywhere? I keep filling up bags with clothes in good condition, some of them are even fancy, like fancy shirts that my Mom got me that just aren't my style so I *never* wore them. So I'm wondering if I can just plunk down on my yard some weekend morning and sell them for something like $1-5 each.

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[kadath.livejournal.com]

If there are, my neighborhood is filled with criminals.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Heh. I hadn't seen any in my neighborhood (or others) since moving in three years ago until yesterday, so I wasn't sure - T$ I think planted it in my head a year ago, and it wouldn't go away. I should probably check with my landlord though. (Just so long's I manage to not let on that I'm moving until I sign the new lease.)

[sammka.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of them being illegal but sometimes neighborhoods that aren't really neighborhood-y don't have many.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

True, it's not the most neighborhoodly neighborhood, but I hadn't noticed yard sales *anywhere* in this city, not just my own. But it occurs to me that rich neighborhoods don't have yard sales, and a lot of the other areas I drive through are significantly closer to upper class than mine. Planned communities w/ homeowner associations might also have rules against it, but there's few of those around.

But it's probably just that I haven't noticed them, not that they weren't there.

[demigoth.livejournal.com]

I never see yard sales because they're always ass-early on a weekend day. :) Rarely I'll drive by one, but usually they're tucked away in a neighborhood you have to drive down a side street or two in order to reach.

Maybe you could ask your landlord if you could advertise in advance, if your street doesn't get a bunch of traffic. I think that's how it is usually done.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh, good point, I don't do mornings either, especially not weekend ones. My street does get a lot of traffic, so I'm not worried about that. I just don't want to piss him off if he doesn't want people on the lawn a lot, or if he was planning to mow that day, or whatever. And I might be able to convince him to loan me a folding table too. :-P

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

rich neighborhoods don't have yard sales

They do around here. The neighborhood across the street from us is $750k to $3M and they have both individual yard sales and group yard sales.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I was just reminded today that there's a free clothing exchange on campus, so I'm thinking of doing that with my next dumpload of clothes.

*Are* there even any hobos in your town? I've got some hobos down the street from me if you want some. They usually come by on trash day to pick up depositable bottles.

Meanwhile, I still can't figure out what part of "looking for a duplex/house in Amherst/Northampton near a bus line to UMass for the next 3 years" in my repeating Craig's List posting prompts landlords in Easthampton and subletters in undergrad-filled complexes to keep emailing me.