On many garage saling days -- more often than not, I would say -- you will see an item that stands out as the item of the day. By this, I mean an item that keep appearing at different sales; sometimes you may see it as often as seven or eight times in the day.
The item of the day is usually an uncommon item (which is why it sticks out) and frequently is an item never before seen garage saling. For example, one of the first items I noticed as an item of the day was the original Playstation console: I saw at least six that day at different sales and I have only ever seen one since then. Other items I have noticed exhibiting this effect include Skip-a-Cross board games, plastic pineapples, Kafka textbooks, and toy pianos. Note that for an item to be considered an item of the day the items you see must be identical; for example, the Kafka texts were all the same discussion of his more noteworthy writings and a bunch of different books written by Kafka wouldn't count.
This effect, while interesting, doesn't really impact garage saling in any way. I just thought it was something interesting to write about. It sort of reminds me of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, but not really.
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