Happy Memorial Day, everyone, the day when summer begins. Sure, the calendar says that summer begins on June 21st or 22nd and ends on September 21st or 22nd, but we all know that it begins on Memorial Day and ends the day school starts. Memorial Day also begins the yard sale season, that time of year when people everywhere sit in their yards or driveways waiting for someone to stop in and take tables full of unwanted junk off their hands.
Here in Williamsport, yard sales are few and far between, that is if you consider about 300 feet a great distance to travel in order to find the next really great bargain. Some folks have so much stuff in their front yards that you wonder if there's anything left inside. Indeed, some houses appear to have been stuffed so full of knick-knacks that they became nauseated and threw up on their lawns.
I don't really get why yard sales are so successful. Having a yard sale is basically saying, "Hey! This stuff's so crappy even I don't want it!" In terms of an advertising strategy, it's not exactly on a par with Geico's cavemen.
The worst thing, of course, is to have a yard sale and sell nothing. That means that your stuff is so useless/tacky/out-of-style that not even people who go to yard sales want it. Not even for a nickel.
In any case, while you're out enjoying yard sales, picnics, ballgames, cookouts, or simple relaxation, take a moment to remember what it is that we memorialize on this day. Thanks to our soldiers, we are free to buy and sell stuff that's fit only for a yard sale.
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