‘All Guys Stuff Sale’: Finally, a Garage Sale Designed Exclusively for Men
- Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:43pm by
Liz Klimas
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A Minnesota man designed a garage sale with items that are generally most interesting to men. (Image: CBS Local screenshot)
You won’t find hand-me-down baby clothes, vases or knitted blankets at this garage sale. Pat Meachem of Farmington, Minn., hosts an “All Guys Stuff Sale.”
CBS Local reports Meachem recognizing the market for this type of sale, given that most don’t have too many items to interest men who are then are stuck shuffling behind their browsing wives.
Forest Martin was one of these men. After visiting Meachem’s sale, which includes tools, sporting equipment and more, he said, “I could spend the weekend here.”
Watch the CBS Local report:
Given that we’re nearing the 4th of July and garage sale planning is in full swing, men, consider this your inspiration.
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Mr Sanders
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:29pmAre you kidding – I’ll take the 7″ wormdrive and the table-top Band Saw!! Yahoooo!!!!
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:07pmI too had a garage sale for guys only. Not that I excluded women from buying anything but wanted to advertise the sale for ‘GUYS ONLY’ in order to attract more guys who didn‘t want to spend their time looking at grandma’s dishes, quilts etc. We had guy stuff that girls couldn’t even name, let alone buy.
So I wrote my copy for the local newspaper’s garage sale column and they refused to accept it. Said that it was discriminatory and that the federal law prevents them from publishing such ads. I had to back down and change my copy eliminating any reference to ‘guys only’ before they would print my ad.
Welcome to Obomunism.
Report Post »HYPNOTOAD
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:25pmOut here in Eastern Washington State, we have a HUGE russian population. The swarm the yard sales and demand to pay 5% of what you are asking. They descend on the local you-pick farms like locust and pick everything clean so when normal American families show up, there is nothing left.
We also have a lot of yard sales where it looks like they emptied their house of useless junk. It looks like the house threw up onto the front hard. No tables, just stuff all over the yard. Not the old fashion “moving sale” where they just wanted to get rid of the stuff before moving.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:51pmI love men…no, not that way, anderson.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:04pmBoom! Winning!!!
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:12pm+2 points for the professional-quality ZING! generated by your comment. Please take a bow, good sir/ma’am.
Report Post »BREWUP58
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:46pmDown here we call them Gun Shows .
Report Post »9111315
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:05pmOoops. I should have read this one first. Let me try…
Bang! Winning!!!
Report Post »dennisS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:21pmSorry sweetheart, that’s not a Chevrolet convertible, it’s a Ford Thunderbird!
Report Post »Topcat
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:08pm62 or 63 more accurately , Thats the first thing I saw also , had to replay to confirm what I heard .. If you are going to make a statement at least get your facts right., OH I forgot its CBS , mainstream media , no need for facts.
Report Post »dennisS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:25pmMakes you wonder about the “men” hanging around the newsroom!
Report Post »Rodhaines
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:45pmMy five sons and I have been doing this for years! We call it our “Manly Garage Sale.“ ”A garage sale by men….for men….” And we had a lot of men come by and we made a lot of money. We sold everything from cars to televisions, tools to beer fridges.
Then one day our local newspaper REFUSED to run our ad as such! That’s right, good old PC took over. They said our ad was “discriminatory.” NO JOKE!!!!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:41pmIn Egypt they have “all women” garage sales…except there they are actually selling women.
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:14pmcreepy
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:11pmWith that black clothing covering them all over, how do they take one out for a test drive.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:37pmReal men don‘t waste their time looking through someone else’s junk. That’s a woman thing.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:43pmIf there’s something broken at a garage sale my wife will snatch it up. Why are people so unscrupulous that they will sell stuff that is broken or incomplete? Women at a garage sale can only be referred to as a “feeding frenzy.”
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:37pmI think it must be the estrogen. Traveling all over the city to buy other peoples broken garbage. Women seem to love that stuff. Like when the go into a busy store and waste the guy working there’s time describing their house, or kitchen, or something that doesn’t relate at all to them just picking out something and leaving. They actually believe the sales guy cares what color their house is. Hilarious except there usually 10 other people needing his help while that woman keeps spouting.
Report Post »Marcia
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:35pmOh man! As much as I love woodworking and puttering in the shed, I’d be in heaven at THIS yard sale. I don‘t go to many at all because it’s usually crap I don’t need or want.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:34pmAnybody see a 23 gauge pin nailer? Would like to find a good deal on one. Yeah, that looks like the kind of place that I could spend a weekend at too. I don’t play golf, but my son does, and he is into collecting tools as well. Now, if only they had a cold keg of micro brew!
Report Post »dennisS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:31pmKeg was in the back yard next to the BBQ where they were grilling RED MEAT! Oh the horror!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:54pmDENNISS, With that, they might have to run me away Sunday night.
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:20pmHey Eric–way to go–that just about covers everything—-I would find your rules hilarious but I’m afraid our enemy combatant obamaliar could impose this stuff–LOL—
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:12pmHe will be shut down in minutes now –
Report Post »Rule #837 – You cannot sell “Sharp” things
Rule $265 – You cannot sell things without paying the tax on them
Rule #882 – You cannot sell gender based equipment – it’s not fair
Rule #736 – You cannot sell tools within 1 mile of a school
Rule #638 – You cannot sell items for less than 10% of the original value within 10 miles of a retail outlet
Rule #276 – You cannot sell items at all without donating to the “I Love Obama” fund
Rule #294 – You cannot sell items without allowing minorities equal chance at purchasing them
Rule #635 – You must allow people to be able to pay with food stamps
Rule #302 – You must share with all your neighbors all proceeds
Rule $289 – You must alert the Department of Agriculture – Homeland Security – Department of the Interior – Department of Defense – Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Redundancy Department.
Leader1776
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:19pmAn this in the USSM(innesota) !! LOL.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:46pmRule #1 You can not sell things that are not broken or missing parts.
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:10pmMy thoughts exactly pavnvet—Seriously –Our liar in chief leader will set up a new department–Equal Opportunity Garage Sale Department–“EOGSD” New taxes will be levied and a Spy Drone will fly over periodically!!!! Volunteer workers must have health care also. No drinks over 6 oz. will not allowed to served or jail time will follow.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:01pmFunny. I kinda wonder what the percentage of men visiting garage sales vs. percentage of women…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:26pmDepends on how many women are looking for a husband. Most of the men are hiding. The whimps are everywhere.
Report Post »fluffdog
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:06pmI am a man and I make good money buying junk at yard sales and reselling on ebay. I buy broken stuff too!
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:00pmI think it‘s a great idea and I as a woman would go I love all kinds of tools I guess that’s the tomboy in me.When we go to Lowes I don‘t go to the curtain area or the appliances I go to where the plumbing is the tools are maybe because I’ve used many of them through the years at my jobs and at home.I love Harbor Freight not saying I don‘t look at the other home improvements like new vanities for the bathrooms or for the kitchen but it’s after I’ve done some small remodeling or like when we redid my whole bedroom then yes a new window,new curtains,new vanity,light fixture,medicine chest and all the womenly stuff comes afterwards.I love working on our vehicles learning something about them is better then not knowing anything about them I do my own oil changes,check the battery,radiator,brake fluid,oil,air filter,fuel filter,transmission fluid,I changed a starter in my F150 many years ago took about an hour it was freezing out yes in Fl but there was no one to do it and I needed it for work.The trucks and cars now are a little more complicated so can‘t do as much as I’d like but we women should at least be able to check the fluids and change a tire and I don‘t get taken to the bank when I do have to have it serviced I stand there and watch what their doing and if they try to tell me I need something I know has already been replaced recently by me or my friends who does alot on it I tell them no thanks it’s been taken care of.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:36pmI hear ya, Sister! I love the scent of fresh cut wood in the lumberyard section of home improvement stores. I go there, get my dose, then shop for what I actually needed. LOL Just finished built-in bookcases.
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:05amyo bronco II will you marry me? giggity(sorry had to say it :D
Report Post »Locked
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:48pm… slow news day?
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:45pmI know that you lefties can’t stand freedom.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:52pmgo to the huff in puff then
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:48pmI am sure he is violating some law here. Discrimination against women and gays comes to mind. Did you know the department stores don’t have white sales any longer…guess why?
Report Post »Suzanne D
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:01pmTrue. And retailers are shunning the term “Black Friday” as well. They are instead encouraging employees to vaguely refer to it as an “Event Sale.”
Report Post »oldwmn
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:22pmyep..I too remember one of the dumb bimbos on THE VIEW thought BLACK FRIDAYS sale was racist..if you IQ is so low you do not grasp its a bookkeeping term to be in the black or for those who lived back east if you do no sell enough its in the RED…but nope same kinda mentality of lets grade papers in purple ink not red as to not offend ….this is NOT the USA my parents served in WWII for … help me mr wizzard beam me up scotty ..
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:20pmGOD gave Moses 10 Commandments… one for each Finger. We have TOO MANY LAWS… that go upon One Finger!!!
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