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some idiot came to our garage sale with his kid and my fiance was telling him we will have new stuff every weekend and the dude said your lucky you're not in rockford coz after so many garage sales it's considered a business and u will get fined. F U BUDDY! we already checked on the rules and we are fine. we can have as many as we want with no consequences. that really pissed off my fiance and he was pissed off the whole rest of the day because of the dude. i dont care if he's from 2 towns over, not every town is the same. i told my fiance that that was the first time i have ever seen him come to our garage sale so he will never know we have garage sales. i swore he was from the flea market 2 towns over too. oh well, i dont think i will ever see him at our garage sale again so i told my fiance not to worry about it but he does. so, out of spite he checked online again and it only talked about signs and thats it so that dude doesnt know what he's talking about. :thumbsup:
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Lots of towns have different rules for garage sales. I was having a garage sale once and a friend of my aunts told me that in his town they did not allow people to put up signs.
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I live in Illinois, it was supposed to be super nice so I planned a garage sale, both days IT was freezing!!! I made 25 bucks :(
I think there is a rule about posting signs on certain poles but nobody enforces it.
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Where I live signs are not suppose to be on post or polls which of course everyone does but the town I live in we must have a permit which yes cost and it must be posted where it can be seen with the dates of the days in which you are having the sale if its not posted and a police man stops by huge fine!!!!! We don't have many yard sales its a pain!
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Those rules are JUST for the town to make money, It's not like your going to make tons of money, garage sales date back to.. well its like tradition and that saying, " one person's junk is another's treasure " SO TRUE! Around my county we have TOWN wide garage sales all the time and another they call Route 34 or something because it runs so long through so many towns in our county. People should (lawmaking money sucking ...) should lighten up and realize uh HELLO RECESSION people need extra money especially right now. >:(
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The only rule I know of is posting signs you could get fined for that, or have a ticket delivered to your address.
If you have any worries or concerns I'd say contact your neighborhood police precinct for more information.
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The only rule I know of is posting signs you could get fined for that, or have a ticket delivered to your address.
If you have any worries or concerns I'd say contact your neighborhood police precinct for more information.
In our little town you are considered a business if you have garage sales every week-end and I do know of a few people who tried that but did not get away with it for long. I know you can't always make a bunch of money with a garage sale but I do think it is not right for someone to have them every week-end and junk up their yards with stuff that didn't sell and then pile more stuff on top of it. I used to have a garage sale every spring and again every fall and made fairly decent money with it but I would never consider it all the time for several different reasons. You are also susposed to go get all your signs down or you are subject to a fine but I see old signs all the time and its not like they wouldn't know who left them there if they wanted to fine them. lol
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It sounds like the guy who bothered you was just trying to stir up some stuff. It's good you know enough about it that it doesn't bother you...
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Here in the Southern California desert area they have strict rules on yard and garage sales and I think you can not have them more than every 90 days. But as others have posted, I guess you need to check with your local police or code enforcement officer. :crybaby2:
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I live in California and we are only allowed to have 1 garage sale every 3 months
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We have one once in a while, But here if you are having one every week then they conside a business being run out of your house and there are zoing rules about it. But just once in a while no one thinks anything about it.
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The person's approach might have been wrong, but his intentions could have been good. In New Orleans, (or at least Jefferson Parish) you can only have 2 per year at the same address. You also have to get a permit first, so they can track it- for the exact reasons he said, it is considered to be a business and need to apply for a license that way if it is more. They do enforce it and there can be hefty fines. I'm glad your town doesn't do that, but coming from a place that does, my first thought might have been the same as his!
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this is our way to get more money to pay our bills. i havent been working and i start a new job soon. so, we have to do something.
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My mother and my sister love to go to garage sales, and they are even talking about having thier own! so it's very interesting to read the rules
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It is an absolutely great way to make ends meet! I have sales, too! But, if I have more than 2 in a year, I have to do it at someone else's house. I wish that rule didn't exist here, but since it does, we have to work within the laws!
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I think that you are allowed to have up to four per year here. I know you are not supposed to attach signs to public utility poles and such, but I still see a lot of that.
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To me yards sales in the US are like baseball and apple pie. Unbelievable that so many versions of control are listed in the responses above me. Yard/garage sales are a sacred part of the American spring and summer. Who would ever be so silly as to make up so many rules, fines, permits, etc. about something that is just a simple way of making a little money while your neighbors can buy things at a reasonable price and have a little free fun. This country needs more of this kind of thing in the lives of it's citizens. Simple fun.
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Well I live in Illinois, and never had no garage sale rules enforced upon us and we have had alot of garage sales :dontknow:
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some garage sale *bleep* emailed me about my garage sale ad on craiglist. he tried to tell me that we were running a second hand store. what a stupid person.
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some idiot came to our garage sale with his kid and my fiance was telling him we will have new stuff every weekend and the dude said your lucky you're not in rockford coz after so many garage sales it's considered a business and u will get fined. F U BUDDY! we already checked on the rules and we are fine. we can have as many as we want with no consequences. that really pissed off my fiance and he was pissed off the whole rest of the day because of the dude. i dont care if he's from 2 towns over, not every town is the same. i told my fiance that that was the first time i have ever seen him come to our garage sale so he will never know we have garage sales. i swore he was from the flea market 2 towns over too. oh well, i dont think i will ever see him at our garage sale again so i told my fiance not to worry about it but he does. so, out of spite he checked online again and it only talked about signs and thats it so that dude doesnt know what he's talking about. :thumbsup:
From what you said, I think you are completely overreacting. Sounds like the guy just made a general comment, nothing to get worked up about.
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some garage sale *bleep* emailed me about my garage sale ad on craiglist. he tried to tell me that we were running a second hand store. what a stupid person.
Perhaps so, still wouldn't it be wise to check into your local laws concerning yard sales, (some local governments restrict them and others, not so much). Maybe in your area they don't treat garage sales as a secondhand store business or, maybe they do. You could try looking it up online by using search terms which include the name of your city/county and "garage sale local laws". Or, not - your choice.
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doesnt know what he's talking about. :thumbsup:
He said "you're lucky you aren't in Rockford. Nothing could be more true. I've done shows there. That town is a bleep hole.
Sadly though he DOES know what he was talking about. He never said that you were violating the law of your town. He said IF YOU WERE IN ROCKFORD, you would be violating the law. That statement was true. Hopefully you don't let this very comment upsets you as much as the guy at the garage sale did.
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In our town here in Florida people hammer their signs wherever they feel like it which can be annoying when you look out your window and see em hanging on stop signs and the tall wooden street light poles. :fish:
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Every town has diffrent rules, my town will only let you have three a year, and I agree with that guy you are lucky you can have them all the time. Maybe he was saying it in a good way not a bad way as your finance took it.
Good luck with your sale
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I don't know the garage sale rules where I am, but I figure it does not matter. I see plenty of them here and no one ever complained about getting fines.
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You sound so angry! It's cool. Just tell him to shove and don't let him ruin your day,
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no, i'm not the one angry, my fiance is. we havent had a problem since with this guy but we had a garage sale at my brothers and he lives one town over and the is restricted to 3 sales a year and this was his last sale this past saturday and it sucked big :bootyshake:! me and my fiance only made around 8$ and there was hardly any customers. it wasnt that cold outside so i dont know what the problem was. usually sunday is booming out here where we live but not in their town.