Welcome to garage sales Unhinged.
Where the characters are as quirky as the vines.
I'm Julie. And I'm Jake.
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Let's get unhinged. What's your favorite holiday?
I want to say Halloween, but I wish it was colder.
I think we've had this conversation before because
where we live in Texas, it is never cold on Halloween.
Yeah, like I, you know, I like the whole feeling around
Halloween. A lot of people do.
It's gotten more popular, it's got more, it's got more
mainstream. But yeah, I think that's it.
Not much. I don't care much about the
candy. I just like seeing all the the.
You just like all the Pagan stuff.
Yeah. Pretty much even.
OK, so like that is a traditional holiday.
Do you have a favorite made-up holiday?
Made-up holiday. Are we like, are we talking like
National Donut day, stuff like that?
No, no, because like those things are fake.
I don't really think about it. Maybe Secretary's Day.
I don't know, like administrative assistant Day.
What? No, I, I, I don't really give
those much thought. Do people have favorite made-up
holidays? I don't know.
Well, mine's not made-up. My favorite holiday is my
birthday. And I don't care if other people
celebrate it or not. But like, I love my birthday
because it is like the middle finger to death.
I have escaped death for one more year.
Let's try to do it again. Like, that is exciting to me.
But as I was getting ready for today's podcast and going, OK,
what can I talk about? Jacob, there is a National
Garage Sale Day. What I know.
OK, so the reason I want to talk about this today, and even
though this episode's coming out end of March, beginning of April
somewhere, probably end of March, National Garage Sale Day
is the 2nd Saturday in August and it says it's the perfect
time to sell, you know, used items.
You think about it, second Saturday in August, you're
usually don't have big chance of rainstorms or snowstorms or
anything like that. However, what I the reason it
came up in my research is that there are some municipalities
that they don't require a permit for that day to do a garage
sale. That's how they are.
It's a holiday from bureaucracy. It is a holiday from red tape,
but I also thought like, you know, that's kind of a cool
thing and I and I wish more cities and municipalities did
something like that to where one, it brings attention to the
second hand sales market. Two, you don't have to pull a
permit, but it encourages neighborhoods and apartment
complexes, churches, things like that of like if you have a
weekend where you were doing a garage sell, a second hand sell
and you know a lot of your neighbors are doing it too, that
that is a great way to get in some potential more potential
buyers into your neighborhood without you having to go solo to
promote your cell that maybe is in a desert of other garage
sales. So the second Saturday in
August. So for the year of 2026, let's
find out what the second Saturday in August is because I
don't know that off the top of my head.
So that date is going to be August 8th, 2026.
So August 1st is the first Saturday, August 8th is the
second Saturday of. And so they're saying National
Garage Sale Day, which I'm sure is a made-up holiday.
I don't think that it's a federal holiday, but even if it
was, it's on the weekend. So most people don't work on the
weekend. But also for people that are
interested in hosting their own garage sale, yard sale, whatever
it may be, check with your municipality, check with your
city to see if they are doing away.
If if your city or municipality charges for permits, they may be
doing free permitting that weekend, or they may not require
one because of the National Garage Sale Day.
You know in like and in preparation for National Garage
Sale Day, you need to make make sure you leave out, you know
some random screws and buttons and some direct to DVD Val
Kilmer movies for its equivalent of Santa Claus.
Well, and this will also be the 25th year that National Garage
Sale Day is observed. It was created in 2001, so it's
created by a person named C Daniel Rhodes of Alabama after
they saw their neighbors having sales on different weekends and
Rhodes thought that coordinating cells on the same weekend would
be more convenient. He's also this person is also
the founder of Mulligan Day and Brothers Day.
This guy just making up days. He's a Time Lord, he gets to
make up holidays. It's also one of those things
that even if you don't want to have your own garage sale, it's
a good reminder to get out there and do some second hand shopping
on August 8th. I know we're a few months away,
but you can start saving up your pennies and your dollars now to
go after it so. You mentioned this guy is out
there just like shooting from the hip, making holidays that we
all are now burdened with. What's it take to do that?
I mean do. You.
Have to go post office, what do you do?
No, I think I looked it up before you just and there's all
these different websites that you can submit of, hey, I want
to do a a national day of this, OK.
And there's there's no like vetting process.
It's like, OK, cool, we'll put it here if there's no other day
that is like that around. Yeah, it's a made-up thing,
right? So yeah, all holidays are right.
So I mean like to some to some degree, you know, somebody had
to go. Well, why not let's.
OK, that sounds delicious. You know, let's make a day about
it. Why did you?
Why were you looking up how to make up a holiday?
So whenever I used to work in corporate America, I was looking
for a way of like, how can my company do a celebration that is
not around a typical holiday like Christmas, Thanksgiving.
And I was like, well, what if we just made-up our own holiday
related to our specific niche of a business?
And yeah, I went down that. Yeah.
Also, Jacob, I know a lot of random crap, like, why would I
not look that up? But also in line with National
Garage Sale Day, there's also National Thrift Shop Day.
Yeah. So National Thrift Shop Day,
it's not like so for National Garage Sales day is on the 2nd
August of second Saturday of August.
National Thrift Shop Day is just set date, it's August 17th, so
August 17th every every year. National Thrift Shop Day.
Again, for the companies that want to recognize it, they may
do additional deals. They may do additional things
for people that love to go thrift shopping.
Especially a lot of my friends, they want to get together with
other girlfriends and have brunch and they want to go
thrift shopping. Especially if you're already
buzzed because apparently that's a lot of fun that you can go
thrift shopping on August 17th and there may be additional
deals that are happening at those thrift.
Shops, I just don't want it to get to commercial, you know, I
want people to remember the spirit of thrift Store Day like
it's it's about Jesus. I mean, we could probably say
that it's probably about like Jesus, like Target celebrates
Christmas, so why not? I mean, your favorite holiday is
the Pagan Halloween, and I think there's a lot of Christian
symbolism in those Pagan, sorry, I got medicine brain right now.
Yeah, yeah. You know, I think I hear what
you're saying. It's like, yeah, a lot of the a
lot of the symbols we use were adapted from other things that
we're using a different context of.
The Christmas tree was a Pagan symbol and all that stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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make your next sell at Success. So yeah, anyway, you have the
National garage sale day, you have National thrift shop day.
Both of those days are coming up in August.
People should start saving up their monies now to go and get
some cool items on those days. Or have your own garage sale or
start your own thrift shop care. Just do it.
I like this thing in in sales market so make that.
Happen. There's no one way to observe
everyone. Everyone gets to observe the
holiday the way they choose to, with their family or not.
Actually, I don't want to. I kind of want to observe both
of those days. I'm like, oh, on National Garage
Sale day, OK, you know, you talk about like Christmas morning,
right? Let's talk about your ideal
National Garage Sale Day morning, because I know what
mine is. Mine is I go in, buy myself a
cup of coffee at a local like coffee shop, get a really
delicious hand homemade pastry type thing, and then meander
around the rich neighborhoods buying all their stuff.
You know, National Garage Sale Day really does sound more like
an excuse it it really should be like your daily ritual needs to
be. You know it needs to involve
other people's stuff. So you're going to have your
coffee. It's made in this person's
coffee machine. You want to have the bagel, it's
made. You know it was in this thing
over here. It really just needs to become
an excuse to go live in someone else's house for a day and just
use their stuff. Probably.
Except they're probably not going to let me use their
bathroom. Yeah.
Yeah, I've never been to a garage sale or hosted one where
someone I was going to let someone use my own bathroom and
or I was going to ask to use somebody else's.
Yeah. And also, would you, oh, that's
a good question. Would you ever use a Portage on
that was at a garage sale? Like what if they were trying to
sell it and you're like, oh, they have a great one that's
just here to use. One, I, I think I'd be more one,
I'd be impressed at the thoughtfulness of having a porta
potty at your garage sale. Like, wow, that's next level.
I, I don't think I've got enough money to spend here, but I'd be
really concerned if they were selling it.
I think that's more disturbing somehow.
Yeah, but I also want to see this in a sitcom episode.
Yeah, no, I think in like, I mean, you know, we've all been
there. You know, we've all like you got
to do your thing when the going is rough, Julie, like any any,
any safe port will do so. I don't know.
Maybe it's more conducive to good business that you have a
porta potty at your garage sale and you're just charging
admission. Oh yeah, there could be that.
Well, you know, maybe that's for a future episode we talked about
what do you do when you're you're out shopping and you're
thrifting your garage selling, your yard selling and nature
calls. Yeah, because you know what
happens? Like you like the the most
expedient route to resolving this issue is to ask this
person, May I go in your house? Here's 20 bucks.
Look in the precise place where one is supposed to do that.
Yes, yeah. And if I see a live Laugh Love
sign in their bathroom, I'm taking it.
Yeah, well, anyway, I wanted to to make you aware that there's a
garage National Garage Sale Day and a National Thrift Shop Day.
So come August, Jake, we're we're going shopping.
That's right, we will observe. All right.
Thank you. Bye.