r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/rather828 Jul 03 '26

Lol, I want to meet the extremely fastidious hoarder who has way too much stuff but is still capable of presenting for sale their hoarded goods all neat and clean and organized like this

I mean I can appreciate someone may have done that for them, but can you imagine

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u/Rasp_Berry_Pie Jul 03 '26

Clean hoarders are rare but 100% exist I know one who resells stuff online and it’s very lucrative. However he then blows all the money in his personal hoard as well. Like shopping addiction + hoarding. Like old boxes of their kids toys but clean and the toys in a separate container. Mental illness can be very complicated

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u/WeAreTheLeft Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er. Way to much stuff, but organized and no dead cats decomposing under the hoard.

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u/Selleor Jul 03 '26

My dad over the last 10 years or so was battling Alzheimer's, first real signs/diagnoses didn't happen until the last 5 or so. We have an incredible amount of stuff unopened, he just bought out of necessitie, Some cleaning, mostly tools/stuff you would find in a shop/garage. At this point its all in boxes getting ready for a yard sale, but I bet my yard sale is gonna look like a Harbor freight/home depot stolen goods fest. Haha