{"id":867,"date":"2021-12-30T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2023-05-08T20:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:07:03","slug":"what-is-the-origin-of-the-garage-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-garage-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Origin of The Garage Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"867\" class=\"elementor elementor-867\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fa9f788 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fa9f788\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f6add9d\" data-id=\"f6add9d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a13acde elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"a13acde\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/yss-podcast\/embed\/episodes\/What-Is-The-Origin-of-The-Garage-Sale---Yard-Sale-Search-Podcast-e23n93q\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2b0f75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a2b0f75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The garage sale: our favorite national tradition to stand the test of time. From what seems like the dawn of time, people have been setting up antiques and dusty items outside of their homes, happy to trade their used items for some neighborly interactions and some useful stacks of cash. Except, of course, for one thing: garage sales haven\u2019t been around since the dawn of time. They had to start somewhere.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p>If you\u2019ve ever referred to garage sales as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/how-to-find-local-rummage-sales\/\">rummage sales<\/a>,\u201d this will ring familiar to you. Just like when we order things from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/report-1-7-million-packages-stolen-every-day#:~:text=Around%20the%20country%2C%20more%20than,in%20lost%20goods%20and%20services.\">Amazon<\/a>, cargo from cargo ships doesn\u2019t always make it to the intended destination. Way back in the 1800\u2019s, shipyards would host discount sales of unclaimed cargo called <i>rommages<\/i>. These kinds of sales eventually extended further onto land and became popular in churches and other social spaces. Slowly but surely, and especially during the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s, these sales became more commonplace in family and neighborhood settings, coming closer to the beautiful community-based events we know and love today.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p>Still, however, there are missing pieces to the garage sale puzzle: namely, garages. While it also seems that suburban streets have been lined with driveways leading to garages since the beginning of time, the suburban neighborhood is actually a <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/america-on-the-move\/city-and-suburb\">pretty recent concept<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t until around the 70\u2019s or 80\u2019s that house architecture began to regularly feature garages at the front of the house\u2014a necessary precursor to the modern garage sale.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p>Finally, and also around this time, US consumerism started to boom. This meant people began to buy more and more stuff, which also meant that people began to need more space for their new stuff\u2014a tale we\u2019re all familiar with. All of these things put together bring us to the tried-and-true tradition that we all love: the almighty garage sale.<br \/><br \/><\/p><p>Decades later, garage sales are regular events that we look forward to every spring, summer, and whenever else we get a chance to enjoy these neighborhood events. Who would\u2019ve thought that our favorite community event began with cargo ships? 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From what seems like the dawn of time, people have been setting up antiques and dusty items outside of their homes, happy to trade their used items for some neighborly interactions and some useful stacks of cash. Except, of course, for one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/what-is-the-origin-of-the-garage-sale\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Is The Origin of The Garage Sale?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,39],"tags":[209,217,207,215,211,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsalesearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}