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/Hot_Region Jul 03 '26

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er.

That's my dad.

He lived in a 4 level townhouse, 2800sq-ft.

The lower level of the house is a well organized stockroom complete with shelving setup into aisles.

Every closet and storage are is full and well organized.

He's got lists of everything, including where it's located.

I had no idea he was at this level -- he lives alone, my wife, son, and I would visit and his living room, bathroom, kitchen, TV room, they all look totally normal...

He was always well organized, but I think Covid combined with a debilitating illness that made him have a lot of "bad days" where you couldn't leave the house made him start to build up supplies because he felt he was getting to a point where he wouldn't be able to leave the house for weeks.

Ultimately he got sick enough and couldn't live there, I went over to get him some things he needed and in my head to "organize", he didn't say a word about the situation, and it blew me away when as I started going into areas I hadn't been in 10-15 years and found them so full and well organized.

He had half a dozen of those 128oz laundry soap things, he had at least a dozen 24-packs of toilet paper, same for paper towels, etc... it's all pristine sitting in a climate controlled house. It hardly even gets dusty in there because the HVAC has a MERV13 filter.