Didn't AV used to have a community yard sale? Does that still happen or is it a thing of the past? We can't have individual yard sales...so how do you feel about that? Would you participate in a community one?
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22 comments:
Sure.
I would participate! An excellent idea and very needed event; good way to purge the clutter!
I'm in! I have so much clutter.
Tacky idea.
Take your unused stuff to the Goodwill Store on Glebe.
An interesting spin would be to have the yard sale and give all the profits to a local charity. Perhaps we could even roll it into our Toys for Tots drive?
Past years it was always during a conference I go to every year, so I couldn't participate... I wouldn't mind doing it myself, as I do ebay a lot to get junk out of my house... and what I can't ebay goes to good will...
Why is a yard sale tacky? Some people believe charity starts at home. Others may not necessarily want to give to a charity like goodwill.
Yard sales are a lot of work for little return. But they can be fun. I probably wouldn't participate...I prefer Goodwill and Freecycle to get rid of stuff I no longer use.
Please remember to be nice to one another. I don't like having to delete mean spirited posts...even if they are in Russian.
That's too bad you're censoring our post. As long as there's no profanity, I believe we should be able to express ourselves, and if that includes showing distain, so be it!!!
I think AVO is correct: this is not the forum for hurling insults.
Who is to decide what's "mean spirited?"
Some may find picking on board members, complaining about the Crier, and other AV happenings as mean spirited.
Policing the boards for what you believe is "mean spirted" takes away from the spirit of what a blog is all about.
It's people expressing themselves, and because you don't agree with how that's done, you delete the post.
As long as it not racist, vulgar or anti-semetic, we should be free to say, and respond as we please, w/o fear of the delete police censoring our post.
Are you going to delete this?
And therein lies the rub: subjective terms, the meaning of which having been drowned in a sea of political correctness and claimed “rights.”
The blogger has chosen to eliminate ad hominem attacks from this blog, assumingly while deeming them vulgar, offensive, or just of little value – and it is certainly within the blogger’s prerogative.
The poster above feels he has the right to post anything he wants so long as he FEELS it’s neither racist nor anti-Semitic (or uses Saxon words) – on a blog not his own. It’s nice that the poster above is sensitive to race and Semitic peoples, but it’s quite possible to be offensive in other ways and I am glad that this board is monitored as it is: allowing criticisms and complaints, kudos and praises, while deleting ad hominem attacks. On another blog I might be called a fat, stupid, misandristic Andorran; but here it’s not germane and therefore deleted as “mean spirited.”
Another nasty and mean spirted response.
It's just a blog posting about a yard sale. Who knew something so trivial could ruffle so many feathers?
Cupcake has to agree with Zak. Things here have been taking a mean spirited turn. It’s a shame because it had the potential to be a useful forum for ideas and the overall betterment of AV. As one poster recently noted, Cupcake can be entertaining and sometimes “crude,” but Cupcake’s goal was to get folks thinking about issues we all face. With any luck the new AV website will have a residents’ forum of sorts so that everyone can voice their opinions. To our blogger host, please try to keep this blog “forward thinking.” If we simply keep things as they are today in AV we’re already behind. With that I’ll simply sit back and see where this site goes. Give me one last click and enjoy. Gracie was one of a kind.
That's it for me!!! Too much policing in my world already. If we can't open up around here, then it's not worth sticking around. Most people ignore the mean spirted, but recognize that there's an admendant that protects what we can say. But, not here. So long.
I love the people who write on the blog. You never know when one of those blog haters will try and stir up trouble on the blog. It's funny that they think this blog is a threat to AV. It's really them that are the threat to our happy little community. I'm staying.
I don't sense anyone "hates" the blog -- some folks feel censored because the "Head" blogger is now, at his/her discretion, deleting comments. I personally think that stinks. That's what blogs are ALL about; disagreement.Not censorship!
Good night everyone.
This is interesting...
"Yard Sale Is Illegal
Katherine Mangu-Ward | May 7, 2009, 4:41pm
Thinking of having a yard sale this weekend? Before you do, be sure to consult CSPC Publication #254 [PDF].
This handy 28-pager from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reminds the American people that, thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (which I have blogged about here and here), the government is totally in charge of your yard sale..."
ERC used to run a yard sale in the Village. But they are totally focused on the ravine as of late.
It is a great idea and I look forward to having one.
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