The Weekend Hunter

After years and years of constant hunting at Estate, Garage and Yard Sales, I have learned a lot.... and it's time to share.

Let us begin with a growing problem.

TO THE ESTATE SALE ORGANIZERS...

I am tired of the blatant favoritism. 

Allowing folks to text, call or email their name for the sign up list days before the sale is just plain wrong. What happened to a fair shake? There has been many a time that I will arrive at an estate sale within moments of the list being set outside only to find I am three dozen heads back before the list was even set down on the stoop. 

Then once the sale commences, I get to stand in line while perhaps a quarter of the people on that advanced list have the run of the place ahead of anyone else while the estate sale lacky spends the next 15 minutes slowly reading out names of those who didn't even bother showing up. Meanwhile the rest of us, who actually did arrive on site, wait while the dealers pick the joint clean. 

Seem fair to anyone? 

Here is a tip. Forget the list entirely. If someone wants to be the first in line at an estate sale, then they can commit the time and patience to be there early and be first in line. It is really just that simple. Everyone is sick and tired of seeing the same 5 to 10 assholes standing on the porch at ever sale. It does nothing but piss everyone off and makes your estate business look crooked and bias, two things you don't want on your brochure.