June 26, 2014

Garage Sales!!! I love garage sales.  I know to some people they are nothing but a nuisance, but I love them.  I have found some of the best stuff at garage sales.  I have had so many of them myself, I have lost count.  Garage sales, tag sales, yard sales, moving sales, it has many names and they have been around for a long time.  I like the word rummage sale, because that is exactly what you do, you rummage through other peoples stuff.  The bigger the sale, the better.  I love it when there are tables packed with stuff.  My youngest daughter and I love to go together and look at everything!  The history of garage sales goes something like this.  The word rummage comes from a nautical term "Romage", which means ship cargo.  The first  "Romage"sales were held on the docks where they would sell the cargo from the ship that was damaged or unclaimed, hence the word that we have now, "Rummage."  From there they evolved to people selling things to raise money for churches or charitable causes and then eventually to peoples homes where a lot of them are held now.  This is all very interesting to me, I never knew this until now and now I have something to tell the people running the garage sales, how they originated.  I don't know what I love more, looking at everything or talking to all of the people that you meet while out garage saling. Is that even a word, garage saling?  For my first day of blogging, it went pretty fast.  When your typing about something that you love, it goes pretty fast.