Garage Sales As Cultural History

Consumer archaeology

I’ve been at my parents’ house for a few days, going through a bunch of stuff I/we bought back when I was in high school and college, and packed up and never got to. Some of it was random garage sale curiosities that were more fun to see than to buy, and certainly more fun to buy than to own. (Like a toy gumball dispenser, a peeing statue liquor dispens…