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

[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.

[JakeGallagher]

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

[Jaine Perotti]

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...

[Dorienne]

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! >_<;

[Elgin Clock]

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!!!!!

[Matt Attallah]

Yard sale > *.*

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

[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".

[Meyerman]

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.

[Alex Pelan]

Originally Posted by JakeGallagher

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

Typo.

[Alex Cormier]

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

[JakeGallagher]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

Typo.

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

[Alex Pelan]

Originally Posted by JakeGallagher

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

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 .

[Beth Sweet]

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

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Tag Sale--When... you sell tags?

well said!