I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Stick around the Suburbs long enough and you will see a little bit of every kind of crazy. This however, was a new one for me.
A couple of months ago, the lady down the street lost her husband. This is an older couple, but none the less, death is always sad.
Last weekend, little old lady had a garage sale. As we drove by I took a super nosy peek at what she was selling. A beaten up desk, some mirrors, a TV and racks and racks of little old man clothes. It took a moment for my brain to register what it was seeing.
Little old lady was selling her dead husbands clothes and people were buying them! Shiver.
Now it’s not like I generally go “Garage Sale-ing” and on the odd occasion that I have, I sure haven’t picked up any man clothes, but for some reason this really freaked me out! Aren’t there some things that should be off limits for “re-sale”? I’m thinking things like, oh I don’t know, used doggy chew toys, puzzles with half the pieces missing, and dead man clothes should not be sitting in a persons driveway with for sale stickers on them. New Suburban law, don’t sell your dead partners clothes in a garage sale. It’s icky. Thoughts?
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If you think about it, where do you think a lot of things come from at the second hand stores. It’s usually family members donating products from the houses that they are cleaning out after loved ones have passed away. I can imagine other elderly men buying stuff like that because they’re on fixed incomes.
i am glad there are so many of you that never had to rely on grage sales to clothe yourself or your children,,,but many of us it is Godsend to find like new clothing at a yard sale at a fraction of the cost. My kids were some of the best dressed kids in school but without yard sales they would have had very little “good” clothes. I do not question the seller where they came from or if the previous wearer is deceased. And on the other side of the coin, my dad recently passed he had 57 shirts, some never worn, and 45 pairs of pants some never worn, the funeral bill was high and yes i will sell them at a yard sales, i will not tell them why but will if asked. Just my 2 cents worth
That is sick! Dead people’s clothes go to charity.
Hmm, I’m on the fence on this one. I buy clothes at Value Village, and don’t want to think about where they have been. But getting designer jeans for $15 is worth the risk. Would I rather she had donated the late husbands clothes, or got some $$ to help her now that he is gone? I can understand the shiver factor if I had known him & now see his clothes in a garage sale.
hmm lol I’m not an old man, or just a man, but if I were, I probably wouldn’t hesitate to purchase a dead fella’s clothing. I see nothing wrong with it! I’m a super bargain shopper and scour thrift stores so I’m sure I’ve bought something of someone who has passed away.
No biggie to me really!
Oh yeah…. a little gross but something has to be done with them….
Sounds like a practical grannie… and most of them do need the money, otherwise why host a garage sale at all? it sounds like there wasn’t much to choose from, either… so sad
In Africa where we used to live, there was this huge market that sold clothes from donations that came from overseas.
It was called “Who Died?” because they couldn’t imagine anyone that was still alive would ever give the clothes away.
Thanks Anonymous
Personally I don’t see any judgements on ModernMom’s side, she’s just saying!
I don’t wear clothes other people have worn period! No one knows what kind of yucky stuff they did in it!
Mistie! That is a great way to look at it:)