What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Please explain your answer. (and show your work.. j/k :rolleyes: )

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

TAG SALE!!!!!

you tag the things you sell....tag sale......

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Note how the only people to vote for tag sale are from the state of connecticut??

I use garage sale or yard sale, but primarily yard sale is used around here.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

TAG SALE!!!!!!!!!!

You put tags on the items you sell ..

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

This thread clearly says "tag sale." ;)

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Rummage sale, 'cause people "rummage" through the things you don't want!!

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I'm with him

Well, I'm gonna go start a thread that says "Cory just won the lottery" When I wakeup, the money better be there ;)

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

i did garage because im not from da cutt ! u silly people with yer tag sales when will u learn its garage or yard sale, and i wonder if anyone else is gunna have something else lol that could get interesting

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

For the record, for the most part here in CT the following is true.

Tag Sale = Selling things at your house with tags on items as prices (so people don't ask you how much junk costs every 5 seconds).

Garage Sale = When it rains, you then call your tag sale a garage sale, cause that's where you have to frantically move the items and hope that people still come to it.

Rummage Sale = Church Tag Sale - Features specials like fill a paper bag with items for 5 dollars.

Estate Sale = Sale of items for people who died, usually handled by a private estate sale firm on behalf of the family..

Yard Sale - eh.. it's used in CT, but Tag Sale is more prevalent. :p

Flea Market = When you pay about 10-50 dollars at a public place to rent a table and/or spot to sell personal items hopefully at the end of the day making back that money, plus extra..


Wow.. I have no life...
But, with the warmer weather, Tag Sailing season is upon us, and I have to go find more junk to sit on shelves, and collect dust!! w00t.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Are you sure? I've never heard yard sale used around here, it's always a garage sale.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I voted other, because we use yard sale and garage sale about equally around here.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

its a yard sale...
you put your old junk out on your yard and sell it...

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Look at the telephone poles where people hang advertisements...most of the time they say "Yard Sale"

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

none of those 3....

Car boot sale!

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

When the stuff is overpriced we call it an estate sale.

Being dead is optional...:ahh:

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

If I'm going out to shop, I always refer to it as going yard sale-ing. It's silly to call it a garage sale when the people don't even have a garage. Of course, once I had a strange little thought that it would be funny to go to a yard sale and sort of gesture in a vague way and ask "How much"? and when they give me a price, pay them and then get a shovel out and pretend I'm going to dig up their yard to take home... but then, I'm just odd.

Heidi

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

For the most part, it's called a yard sale around here. But if you call it a garage sale, nobody will look at you funny.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Garage Sale .. or Yard Sale. Close tie.

Estate Sale if I'm dead.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Random Sale, because I have random stuff.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Tag sale, most definitely. Obviously, I had to poll everyone I knew at school, and pretty much everyone who was born and grew up here called it a tag sale, whereas the non-natives called them yard or garage sales. Go figure.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Seems to me that Tag Sale is losing, and I'm willing to bet most of the votes are from Elgin's friends...I think you were wrong on that one, Dr Clock.

[EDIT]
[/EDIT]

Nuff said.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Before now, I had never in my life heard of a "tag sale" around here we have rummage/yard/garage sales.

In addition on special occasions when a whole town has a yard sale and lots of houses participate we call them "all around town days (sales)".
... just another for the list :p

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Well, I voted for Yard Sale because people primarily set up the sales in their yard.
A garage sale would be selling stuff out of your garage.
I've never heard of a tag sale.
And if a group of several households get together for one big event, then it's a rummage sale.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

From the Urban Dictionary....

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Silly geese, it's garage sale :p

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I call it an Ebay Auction.

But Garage sale works for me too, Yard Sale just doesn't sound right.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Generally its a yard sale, though yardsale and garage sale can be used interchangeably. Tag sales are these big things were they have all these clothes (which usually don't sell).

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Most definately TAG SALE.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Its Garage sale.>>>>>>>>>>>You sell unused tools, old lawn and garden equipment, and rusty metal things that are sitting in your garage, that somebody may think they can fix or sell for more at their garage sale.

And if anybody is from the Clarkston, Ortonville area you should know about the Whoppie Bowl (large orange building) which was the next largest flea market to the Dixieland flea market and some may know about the person who has the year-round garage sale and I belive that this is their primary income source.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

When one thinks about it, you can't call it a yard sale because you are not selling your yard, same goes with a garage sale. Tag sale, well you aren't just selling tags, so you can't call it that either. :D But we do anyway.

Generally to me, its a yard/garage sale, and if there is one within bikeriding distance, I go to it. There have already been many this year, and one of them had an old Mac Laptop for $15. Unfotunately, no power adapter.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

i voted for garage sale, though i think yard sale is more prevalent in my area. and it's not called a garage sale cause you're selling directly from your garage, but because most of the crap you're selling probably came from there... since often people let junk pile up in their garages. yeah. just to clarify =p. andd... until this thread, i have never heard of a tag sale. i've heard rummage sale, but never heard it actually used... idk. i'm just gonna have to go with either garage sale or yard sale. kids from da cutt are the only ones that call it a 'tag sale'. gawd.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

This is from Pelan, a kid from CT...

pelan: everyone else is just not cultured enough to understand the high-brow concept of yard sale

Elgin has been proven wrong by his own cohort! mwahaha

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I say "tag sale". Makes complete sense to me... you tag the stuff you want to sell with price tags, regardless of the actual location.

I have heard the term yard sale, but not nearly as much as tag sale. I have also heard garage sale, but less common also. Rummage sale is hardly used around here.

It must be a DA CUTT thang... :)

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I always call 'em yard sales. Makes sense to me, it does. ^___^; It's funny though. Here in MD they go between calling it a garage sale and a yard sale. Oy, make up yer minds! >_<;

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

OK, we're gonna do this competiton style..

First fight of the night

Garage Sale Vs Yard Sale
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Yard+Sale&word2=Garage+ Sale

Winner: Garage Sale

Garage Sale Vs Tag Sale
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Tag+Sale&word2=Garage+S ale

Winner: Garage Sale

Garage Sale Vs Estate Sale
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Estate+Sale&word2=Garag e+Sale

Winner: Estate Sale

Estate Sale Vs Rummage Sale
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Estate+Sale&word2=Rumma ge+Sale

Winner: Estate Sale

Finally Last fight of the Night:

Estate Sale Vs Flea Market
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Estate+Sale&word2=Flea+ Market

Winner, and new World Champion in the category of place you can get more junk than you know what to do with is:

ESTATE SALE!!!!!

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Yard sale > *.*

That is the way most of the southeastern michigan people say it...

:D

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Yard Sale is gaining preference around here due to the fact that items are usually displayed in the yard, not the garage.
Team 330's yard sale in March got rained upon. The southern California problem: it doesn't rain most weekends, but if it does rain, there's no room in the garage to move the sale in there. :ahh: We survived with tarps. Being forewarned by the National Weather Service was helpful, too.

We call these a swap meet, even though you don't meet swaps there, any more than you can buy fleas at a flea market. I seem to recall that we were trying to sell premium passes to a prominent local swap meet at our team's yard sale. I include these trivial facts for the sole purpose of confusing people. :p

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

You are all wrong, it is just a "sale". ;)

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

look like you losing elgin not only is garage sale destroying tag sale but yard sale also has more votes . in the chat room we told you to make the poll with garage sale and yard sale together. tag sale is a silly thing people from da cutt call GARAGE sales peole cuz u folks are weird. and i think u are the perfect example lol.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Typo. :(

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

well, tag sale = boring
garage sale = fun and enjoyful

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Can't be a typo, there was a whole word involved ;P

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

I never heard that rule. Things are different here down in Da Cutt. For example, a very small minority of us put our ice cream in the fridge :ahh: .

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Garage Sale--When you put your random junk in your garage and people come and buy it
Tag Sale--When... you sell tags?
Yard Sale--When you sell your junk and put it on the grass for people to look at

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

well said!

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

We use both around here. but I prefer garage sale sale because you are selling all the old crap that is sitting in your gargae or will be if you don't sell it.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Haha :p

I've never heard of tag sale before this, it's a GARAGE SALE in my house, and yard sale is usually on the signs on street corners. (My theory: It's shorter than garage sale, so you can make the letters bigger on your sign! So that's how yard sale won over garage sale.)

And my parents haven't heard of tag sale either, and Mom grew up on the east coast and she hadn't heard of tag sale either.

:yikes: ~Stephanie

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

This is intriguing... it's most definately garage sale though. I'm from the Midwest were we hear everything from both sides of the country and I have never in my 18 years of life heard of a tag sale... let alone seen one! I don't know what I would do if I did see what...

(Is this thread here to make fun of Easterners? B/c if it is it's working! LOL)

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

This is a kinda random side note, but there was a subdivision-wide garage sale in my sub this past weekend, and they put out a big sign by the road, which said "Sub Sale". The first thought that came to my mind was "...why are they selling sandwiches?"

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

a Grage Sail what else would you call i

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

Yeper... same here. It's a garage sale in my neck of the woods, which is obviously the majority of the country. :rolleyes:

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

My family, friends, and I call it a garage sale. Everyone in our general area has a garage unless they are redoing it or live in the apartments.

Tag sales were what we did in girlscouts to help out Clearbrook Center. We stood in front of the local Jewel and sold these ugly red tags that gave discounts on donuts.

Re: What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?
 

We've always used garage sale, sometimes yard sale. I've never heard of a tag sale before. We use garage sale because we set up our stuff in our garage to sell. Sometimes people will have so much stuff they will have their sale in their barn and call it a barn sale. But around here it's mostly garage sale. :)