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

[KORN_lover_2007]

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.

[Ted Boucher]

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

You put tags on the items you sell ..

[Meyerman]

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

[Katie Reynolds]

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

[Elgin Clock]

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.

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.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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.

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.

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

[JoeXIII'007]

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. 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.

[C.Roberts 1089]

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.

[KarenH]

Yard Sale is gaining preference around here due to the fact that items are usually displayed in the yard, not the garage.

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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.

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. We survived with tarps. Being forewarned by the National Weather Service was helpful, too.

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..

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.

[team222badbrad]

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

[Greg Ross]

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

[Anne George]

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

[Brandon Martus]

Garage Sale .. or Yard Sale. Close tie.

Estate Sale if I'm dead.

[VGMasterShadow]

Random Sale, because I have random stuff.

[Alex Pelan]

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.