The nation's 12th longest yard sale started in Williamstown, Kentucky in 2012 and now incorporates 30 cities (and countless homes, villages, churches, garages and corner store parking lots) along its route. Marshall's "Hot Spot" will be in the lot of a former restaurant off the U.S. 25/70 Bypass, under the auspices of the Beacon of Hope Community Services Center, which already manages both a thrift store and a food distribution center for Madison County's struggling citizens.The Beacon of Hope folks have rented spaces to crafters and others, like me, who might want a chance at the bargain-hunters rolling along the big yard sale route.
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| My table last year at the Fredericksburg Indie Book Fair. |
Cheers, Donna
Oh my gosh, wish we were there. A 500 miles yard sale? We'd be SO there!
ReplyDeleteGood luck, and yes, please tell us how it goes. Love your booth, by the way. Very cute and well-themed. You should get plenty of attention.
We call them car boot sales here in the UK. Not sure how big the biggest is as I don't think anyone has ever measured them, but one of the biggest locally that's held every week in summer can take two or three hours to wander round. They even installed a playground in the middle for the kids.
ReplyDeleteCool. That sounds more like what we'd call a "flea market" here, Pippa. Yard sales tend to be on your own property, or close to it, where a flea market is where you go to a gathering where people are selling things--usually household items, crafts or things they make or grow. Donna's event sounds like it's sort of a hybrid Yard Sale/Flea Market.
ReplyDeleteOh, then that's a garage sale here, though yard sale is being used - all the US shows mean Americanisms are coming into the British language.
ReplyDeleteOh wow. Yard sale, garage sale, rummage sale, moving sale and estate sale are all basically different words for the same thing here. And a lot of people enjoy a summer pastime of "going saling" as opposed to "going sailing." :)
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