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You certainly don't LOOK old enough to remember something like this.... 
Actually, very nice item. I have not been to a yard/garage/tag sale in years--we actually avoid them like the plague. Trying to empty out our nearly 50 year accumulation of stuff, we don't need someone else's stuff coming in. After our last tag sale (about 6 years ago) I threatened to burn everything left over. My more thoughtful spouse recommended donating (several carloads) and trashing (a couple of carloads). She now forbids me even thinking about tag sales (or whatever you call them where you live).
Roger
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01:48:54am
"Tag sales" or "yard sales" require one thing to be successful, a booming local economy.
If memory serves me right, six years ago would have been about the worst time since the "Okies" packed their worldly treasures into the rear bed of their farm trucks and headed to California.
About that time (Six years ago.) my daughters and my wife decided to do the same thing probably for similar reasons. Weekends spent dealing with the few interested shoppers was an abject waste of time, time better spent creating a small home based business that now has fifteen contract employees and brings in, after all expenses, including my daughter's wages, a couple hundred dollars a week.
Here in Florida, in 2007 and 2008, quite literally, there was a "yard sale," a "tag sale" or a "garage sale" on every block every weekend except for the most remote areas and those people packed up their stuff and set up shop at busy intersections.
While not quite on a scale of the 1930s, we often saw an overloaded pick-up truck or weighted down auto, pulling and equally overly packed trailer headed north, probably to rejoin mom and dad on the old farm in Ohio or Pennsylvanian, leaving an abandoned or foreclosed dream house in what had been a well maintained gated community behind.
I remember the look on a few people's faces who stopped for gas at the corner convenience store/gas station while enroute and saw that same desperation that we see in the faces of Dust Bowl farmers in those old grainy Black and white film clips.
The recovery may have been, or, is still being, slow, but it is a recovery, and I am hopeful that within a few years the economy will provide the kind or mood that we enjoyed years ago when a "yard sale" was a fun trip to someone's yard or garage, not to remediate desperation but to just dump some useless junk on someone else for the fun of it.
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Roger, we are conflicted on yard sales..we say we don't need anything else ..with "stuff" accumulating since we bought the house in 1967. The day of the dumpsters will come..either by us or the kids !
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i wish i could do justice to this calendar..it takes up my whole scanner,,i picked up a box of paper for 2 bucks at the yard sale..postcards from 1945 Hollywood Tom Brenemans Breakfast Club...i am old but don't remember that and this item ..under the girls portrait the cards open to form a calendar..beautiful !
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re: the youths companion calendar for 1902 ..Perry Mason Co. Boston
You certainly don't LOOK old enough to remember something like this.... Actually, very nice item. I have not been to a yard/garage/tag sale in years--we actually avoid them like the plague. Trying to empty out our nearly 50 year accumulation of stuff, we don't need someone else's stuff coming in. After our last tag sale (about 6 years ago) I threatened to burn everything left over. My more thoughtful spouse recommended donating (several carloads) and trashing (a couple of carloads). She now forbids me even thinking about tag sales (or whatever you call them where you live).
Roger
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05 Oct 2013
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re: the youths companion calendar for 1902 ..Perry Mason Co. Boston
"Tag sales" or "yard sales" require one thing to be successful, a booming local economy.
If memory serves me right, six years ago would have been about the worst time since the "Okies" packed their worldly treasures into the rear bed of their farm trucks and headed to California.
About that time (Six years ago.) my daughters and my wife decided to do the same thing probably for similar reasons. Weekends spent dealing with the few interested shoppers was an abject waste of time, time better spent creating a small home based business that now has fifteen contract employees and brings in, after all expenses, including my daughter's wages, a couple hundred dollars a week.
Here in Florida, in 2007 and 2008, quite literally, there was a "yard sale," a "tag sale" or a "garage sale" on every block every weekend except for the most remote areas and those people packed up their stuff and set up shop at busy intersections.
While not quite on a scale of the 1930s, we often saw an overloaded pick-up truck or weighted down auto, pulling and equally overly packed trailer headed north, probably to rejoin mom and dad on the old farm in Ohio or Pennsylvanian, leaving an abandoned or foreclosed dream house in what had been a well maintained gated community behind.
I remember the look on a few people's faces who stopped for gas at the corner convenience store/gas station while enroute and saw that same desperation that we see in the faces of Dust Bowl farmers in those old grainy Black and white film clips.
The recovery may have been, or, is still being, slow, but it is a recovery, and I am hopeful that within a few years the economy will provide the kind or mood that we enjoyed years ago when a "yard sale" was a fun trip to someone's yard or garage, not to remediate desperation but to just dump some useless junk on someone else for the fun of it.
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re: the youths companion calendar for 1902 ..Perry Mason Co. Boston
Roger, we are conflicted on yard sales..we say we don't need anything else ..with "stuff" accumulating since we bought the house in 1967. The day of the dumpsters will come..either by us or the kids !
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