I had a busy day on Saturday. In the morning, my host family had a garage sale since they are moving to another place, so I helped the garage sale. They advertised on craiglist, facebook, and streets, but I was wondering if people would come because in Japan, garage sales are not popular, and if I put the advertisement on streets or website, no one is interested in that. However, once we started the sale, people came after another and bought a lot of stuff!! Some one bought a bed, another bought a table, and so on. It was very interesting to see real Canadian culture. People don't hesitate to buy used stuff.
I think a garage sale is a very good and smart idea. People who want to get rid of stuff can sell those personally and get some money, and others who need the stuff can buy cheap. And also people don't waste resources because the things are recycled.
After we finished the garage sale, we started packing the rest of stuff. I was packing books and Swedish stuff (since my host family is from Sweden). There were a lot! And we brought some of the things to a church because the church will have a big garage sale in September, and some of them were to a friend's house.
We were working on for the moving almost all day long, I was so tired but had lots of fun and a good experience. I have to pack my stuff as well though, I will do it later :P
I wanted to buy something...
ReplyDeleteI quite enjoyed this post, Momoko! It was interesting to see a familiar practice (garage sales) through the eyes of someone not familiar with them here. When I was a boy, my dad had a lot of garage sales, and he made quite a bit of money. I also liked to buy things at garage sales when I was a boy because I could get things like really old radios. I used to collect old radios, but unfortunately, although they were old, they were not very nice. Nowadays, I don't have them anymore. I probably sold them in a garage sale years ago. ;-)
ReplyDeleteDid you buy anything from your host family? In France, people sell second-hand stuffs but only at a secondhand trade, that means only one house cannot attract enough people like in Canada.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a garage sale yet, but I would like to see how it's like:)
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