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   voodoo
   

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   I was driving to work this morning around 9:50 and happened to pass a house on the south side of NW 65th around 9th Ave NW (fairly close to St. Paul's Church) that had a long line down the sidewalk of 30 or so people waiting to go inside it. It's a nondescript white house that perhaps didn't have anyone living there. Didn't have time to stop, but curious - anyone know what was going on?

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   gracie
   

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   An estate sale? Although weird day to have one. When we did one for my brother, even though we were very specific about no early birds, sale started at 9:00AM - they showed up & lined up at 7:00 AM

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   voodoo
   

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   Perhaps, seems like an odd day for an estate sale. And the crowd seemed to be young-ish -- not the demographic I'd expect for that.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   BuffaloHawk
   

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   voodoo

   Maybe word leaked out they had skinny jeans & PBR collectables

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Curtis
   

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   It is an "free" estate sale. Went to the actual sale a couple weeks ago. Today they posted on CL that all remaining items would be given away. They are letting 50 people at a time inside.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   gracie
   

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   Well at least they don't do like many others - just stick on the curb with a big old "free" sign on it.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   iPlod
   

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   I posted a "FREE" sign out on the parking strip once but nobody ever picked it up. There was nothing there except the sign, but that's what was free daggonnit, the sign!

   Ya know, you might think that with all the free material begging taking in Ballard lately, somebody somewhere could have used a free "FREE" sign, but noooo...

   Oh, the irony.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   oldguybc
   

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   iPlod, free is in the eye of the be- loader.

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   SeaSpider
   

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   When I lived in SF the shop I worked at had a game to see what was the craziest thing we could leave out on the sidewalk and how long it would take for someone to haul it away. We were never able to come up with something that someone wouldn't haul off, usually within an hour or two. Only a couple of times didn't something last overnight and never long enough for the city to pick up. Stacks of broken coat hangers, TV with the screen smashed out, empty boxes, big chunks of styrofoam packing materials, half empty bag of cat food, a cracked aquarium - all of it magically gone by some mysterious band of urban scavengers. If it's free your bound to find someone nutty enough to want it.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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