Can you have a GARAGE SALE outside your garage?

[AviatorTom]

In University City, Missouri, it is apparently illegal to have a garage sale in your front yard. You must have it in the garage.

What do you think of such a law?

Is there a similar law where you live?

Do you know any other weird laws like this?

[RebelinSteel]

I honestly don’t know

usually I just donate it to charity n someone comes round and takes it, or you hire a skip fill it with stuff and someone takes the stuff from your skip, the skip company they take away a skip with a few items in it lol

[Chazmatazz269]

In Michigan we have garage sales, yard sales, neighborhood sales, and estate sales.

[purplepoppy]

Can you just call it a yard sale to get around the regulations.

We did have a butcher a while back who sold "dragon sausages" until he was forced to stop because they didn't contain real dragon.

[AviatorTom]

@purplepoppy What if he had wrapped the sausage in a small Welsh flag... ?

[purplepoppy]

99% of welsh companies do that anyway.

[FatNeville]

I can think of someone who might be interested in experiencing dragon sausage. *cough @Jennifer604 cough*

[Chazmatazz269]

I suppose Buffalo wings are outlawed because they don’t contain real buffalo too.

[electromagnetic]

Yup. We are allowed to have garage sales. But I think a lot of people in Toronto have accepted Facebook Marketplace as the new norm.

[sage2021]

Just change the sign to read

YARD SALE

And have it in the front yard.


I don't know what state you live in, but remind me not to move there.

I've never heard of the law being that strict. That is crazy!

What about flea markets? Do you have to sell your stuff in a market full of fleas?

And imagine, some of us women are married to jerks like him.

[Sjoerd85]

Strange law... If you want to incidentally sell things in front of your home, on your own terrain, I see no reason to make that illegal. Just don't make a business out of it.

[andreasderjuengere]

When a garage becomes a sales place - isn't it not longer a garage?

Therefore - do ''garage sales'' even exist? Regardless of one misleading word only.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A garage sale is usually in a garage & a yard sale is usually in a yard but if you have too much stuff it’s a junk sale.

[Iron_Man]

Yes, I did with my neighbor, we were teens It’s called a yard sale.

[Red_Arrow]

Only if you are selling the garage.

[FatNeville]

What if the detached four-car garage is now a house?

[Red_Arrow]

@FatNeville Then it is not a garage.

[FatNeville]

But maybe it was assigned garage at birth, that should still qualify for legal immunity from prosecution for non-garage garage sales sales of garages that aren't garages anymore.

[exitseven]

Then it is called a Yard Sale.

[douride2]

Wouldn't that be a yard sale?

[Kathy1111]

yes you can