When did Garage Sale become a verb?“So, what did you do this weekend?”
“I went Garage Sailing!”
Apparently it's not even Saling, it's Sailing.
I won't pretend to understand this strange phrasing, but I did hear it repeated over and over again last weekend, during our family's first garage sale in about a decade.
But, the Urban Dictionary recognizes it as a word – and it doesn't get more official than that!
1. garage sailing
The process of driving from garage sale to garage sale (or yard sale, etc) in suburban areas without any real specific goal in mind, or maybe some rough goal, such as "getting a bookshelf." It usually involves intensive haggling over prices.
We woke up early saturday morning to go garage sailing.
I think I could be one of those people who get up at stupid-o-clock, every Saturday morning to rummage through other people’s junk. I know the enjoyment of finding Tweedy’s book of poetry in a bargain bin at a bookstore in downtown Toronto, which I’m sure echoes the fun of finding a gem at the bottom of a cardboard box, on a stranger’s front lawn.
The same goes for old records (I bought Sgt. Pepper for .50 at a charity sale years ago), and a thousand other things that I probably don’t need, but in the spur of the moment, I’ll feel as though I can’t live without it (hence my purchase of the classic board game Don’t Break The Ice, recently at a street sale)!
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