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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I have a leather jacket that no longer fits but I refuse to get rid of. Hubby understands why. A dear friend of our died after a long battle with cancer. Her husband felt that she would have wanted that fave jacket of hers to go to me. I used to wear that jacket a lot. I didn’t think “Oh this belonged to someone who is now dead”. No…I would have happy memories of our friend. I would remember things like her showing up in a crazy wig saying “hey, my natural hair was straight and brown. But after chemo it came back in red. And the next time it came back in crazy curly. Figured I’d have fun with it.”
Anyway…donate or sell. Doesn’t bother me either way. I shop thrift stores and yard sales all the time. I wouldn’t have some of the cute name brand clothes and shoes if it weren’t for buying used.
I wouldn’t buy them myself. But maybe the lady needed the money.
That is a tough one. I’m a very frugal person at heart and right now I know my Dad, who died 3 weeks ago has $1000’s of dollars of clothes sitting. I don’t think I could sell them personally though part of me would want to. I think it was probably weird because you knew who wore them. I’m usually all over yard sales though.
Donate. Donate. Donate. That’s my thought!
I think the only reason it feels icky to you is that you “know” they are the clothes belonging to someone who died. Most of her customers probably didn’t know.
I wouldn’t sell or buy!
Ummm so no, I wouldn’t sell or buy and now I feel as if I need to shower again;-)
I love me a garage sale…I really do…but I think I would draw the line at selling a deceased family member’s clothing.
Ummmm. the answer to that question for me is nope! not that anything is wrong with it but I would just feel weird?????
You aren’t aware of that woman’s financial situation, so why judge her?
When you donate the clothes? Most organizations resell them, and most people who don’t need the clothes anymore are dead. 🙁
i donate them too. but eventually someone would end up wearing it.
That is just weird…I mean you gotta give it away cause you dont need it, but to people who know he died?
We donated my FIL’s clothes.
I don’t think I would buy them, but I guess I don’t have an innate issue with it. My coworker was given another coworker’s dead husband’s shirt, which he still wears. I admit, I thought it was odd.