What is the most popular state for garage sales?
Here at YardSaleSearch.com, we process over 100,000 yard sale postings each week. That's a
lot. It gives us
a ton of data from which we can determine interesting things that likely have no relevance
to the real
world, but we like to think they do.
Here's case study #1: Which state has the most garage sales? Well, that's not an entirely
fair question,
since California has the most people, of course they will have the largest number of garage
sale events. So
we took the number of garage sales by state and divided it by the population, multiplied it
by a number to
make it meaningful, and voila! We found something interesting and unexpected. See the
wonders of our graphic
skills below:
Congratulations to Oregon!
Sorry, folks, but this one wasn't even close. Wow. Even *we* are impressed.....
Now, let's pose the deep philosophical questions need to be addressed:
Does it mean they are greener by reusing more? Or have more junk, period - and that clutters
their landfills?
Are they thriftier by selling to people instead of throwing it away? Or are they
spendthrifts that spent too
much on the goods and their retail prices in the first place?
What else does this say about our society? Lots, of course. Let's hear what you think. ;-)