Weirdest thing you've seen for sale at a yard sale?

[Siuss]

A friend of my brother was selling a motorbike which had been used in the vandalism of the local country club. The catch? It got him sent to prison (Turns out he did it and had three charges stacked on it...)

 

[Siuss]

My neighbor collected all the cigarette butts from my yard and was "selling" them at his yard sale... I asked him about it, it was just him making a point that I shouldn't smoke in the front yard where kids can see.

You shouldn't leave them lying around in your yard. They take 6 months to biodegrade and squirrels have a propensity for eating them

They were put in an old coffee can on my porch, I just sit in the front yard when I smoke. I've heard it depreciates the value of your home.

 

[philzibit]

A guy tried to sell me and a friend trench coat, pitching the idea that we could fit shotguns in the deep pockets and take them into our school. It worries me that there are people like that in my small town.

 

[thiosk]

It was an estate sale, but same difference really. I don't remember how much they wanted but they had a whole table of old medical supplies. Like wooden handled surgery knives and all that, I really wanted them but my dad saw me looking at them and said no.

Those may have been true treasures. You gotta really be on the lookout for old civil war era surgical tools... clean those up, modern surgeons will spend a lot of money at auction for a nice collection. My father owns a set of civil war tools with bone handles.

 

[TheLastCylon]

An infant coyote.

 

[ae86gamer]

I saw someone selling a rubix cube, with no stickers on it, and it was very dirty... for ten dollars.

 

[ExaltedK9]

Me too...keep your eyes peeled, won't you?

Sorry, got to look out for number one.
But if I find a second or third one, I'll give you a call.

It's ok, no rush.

I'm making do with piano wire at the moment.

 

[Knonsense]

A promotional banner from Dairy Queen from 2003. It was promoting something involving chicken and lime. I bought it for a dollar, and I forget precisely what i did with it. I think I shoved it in a mailbox somewhere.

 

[Segadroid]

A 15 year old doll with garbled speech function, one eye and one arm. Just for the fun of it I bought it (3 dollars) and I put it on a shelf right next to my bed.

It wasn't only lame, it was scary as hell; that single eye always stared at me when I woke up, giving me nightmares when asleep and scaring me to death when waking up.

Eventually I took it by it's remaining hair and threw it into a campfire.
Scary thing was, when the flames reached the little module for the speech function, it sounded like the doll screamed and said "killlllllll..." before totally burning up.

*shudders*

 

[RetiarySword]

I saw a baby for sale once. I enquired about it been nice in a stu or soup, the woman gave me a weird look and said the chair it was sitting in was for sale. Shame really.

I lol'd.

Now, you British folk - when you're talking about a "car boot sale", is stuff actually sold out of the trunk (boot) of a car? Do you use the same term for if you set up tables on your lawn and sell stuff there, or does no one do that?

Its called a boot sale becasue all the stuff is bought there by car or van, you set up a table or two in front of the car and just move stuff out. Leaveing the boot open to store things in I guess. Also it is the same as selling stuff off your front lawn.

The baby thing is a true story

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

A dried piranha.

He now lives on my shelf, and he is called Chris.

Only that was at a car boot, we don't have 'yard sales'.

should've named it petey

Only Petey Piranha is a plant. :3

 

[similar.squirrel]

My neighbor collected all the cigarette butts from my yard and was "selling" them at his yard sale... I asked him about it, it was just him making a point that I shouldn't smoke in the front yard where kids can see.

You shouldn't leave them lying around in your yard. They take 6 months to biodegrade and squirrels have a propensity for eating them

They were put in an old coffee can on my porch, I just sit in the front yard when I smoke. I've heard it depreciates the value of your home.

My apologies. It depends on who's buying, I guess. Good idea, though.

 

[xXzykoXx]

A jar of piss. I'm serious. It was going for 5 bucks!

No, I didn't buy it.

Jarate?

 

[TheMatt]

a giant stain glass window going for 2500$.

not so weird in of itself but really, who brings 2500 to a garage sale.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Coolest thing, probably a kitsune mask.

Weirdest, a condom.

 

[Scard4life]

its not an actual yard sale but a stock sale kind of like the flee market accept smaller, I saw this old dude with a 80's blow up doll on his table, and theres families here,most the parents are shieldin the kids from it (not wanting them to see) and walking away, with no one at his table the dude gets the bright idea "hey why don't I just start sceaming out prices for this blow up doll to every one that walks by."
THAT in my oppinion is kind of wierd, don't yah think?

 

[Farwalker]

A pinball machine.