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"rummage sale" Definitions
  1. a sale of old or used clothes, etc. to make money for a church, school or other organization

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Arthur Miller's "The Price," from 1968, is a tragedy disguised as a rummage sale.
Every year, there are fund-­raisers organized by the parents' association: a rummage sale, an auction, a uniform sale.
And much of this will end up in the rummage sale or charity drive organized by some campus club.
Rosemary Mack, another participant, told INSIDER that she discovered the Tiny Pricks Project while "sorting through vintage doilies at a rummage sale."
Given rising prices for clothes, electronics and anything else made in China because of tariffs, it makes sense to look for rummage-sale bargains.
But some potential props brought by cast members, piled up in a rummage-sale-like drift in the corner, carried whiffs of the old ghosts.
Pardon me for saying so, but nearly every book available for purchase at Amazon Books is also available for purchase in my mom's basement, or my hometown church's annual rummage sale.
All my life I've been a die-hard fashionista, and a few thoughts had ran through my head: What a rummage sale tailored around plus size women, who thought of this?
She would run down to meet people as they walked up the driveway, exclaiming "Welcome to our rummage sale!" and, of course, offering up some lemonade with some puppy chow to snack on.
In true Mudd Club style, Steve Mass, the club's founder, and Maripol, the pioneering designer-photographer-artist, will host a preparty for the Mudd Club Rummage Sale on Monday from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
They also can deduct gifts to charity of $3,1603 (Line 19), which include $3,640 in cash (Line 16) and $240 (Line 17) for the thrift-shop value of clothing donated to a church rummage sale.
In the here-and-now, there are the daily household chores and repairs, the redeeming of coupons, the endless ad hoc runs to Home Depot, the doctor appointments and ferrying of attic treasures for the annual church rummage sale.
With a mainstream plus-sized fashion selection that is known for higher price points, limited availability, and/or questionable sizing, the idea of a rummage sale exclusively dedicated to people who wear above a size 14 is honestly a dream.
That laid-back attitude could be tested by presidential visits, with the attendant crush of media and protesters, to a rural area where the benchmarks for traffic jams are the annual Visiting Nurse Association's rummage sale (also this weekend) and the Far Hills steeplechase races.
But at the fairgrounds down the road from the golf course in Far Hills, the Visiting Nurses Association of Somerset Hills was still able to hold its twice-a-year rummage sale, with the rain and mud more a cause for concern than anything else.
Over the years, the hall was used by the Heights Opera Company, the Marionette Theater Company and the Creative Artists Public Service Program, which held a competition in 1971 that gave "the place the look of a gallery that has been in a collision with a rummage sale," as The New York Times described it.
Jackson holds a traditional community wide rummage sale every year. The event is held the first Saturday after Mother's Day.
In addition, there are specialty foods, live music, fresh produce, cut flowers, children's games, rummage sale, and a silent auction.
One of the most common traditions has been the recitation of the School Chapter, a tradition dating back to 1935 for ninth graders to memorize I Corinthians 13 in their English 9 classes. This rummage sale was similar to a large garage sale –– people would donate items that would be sorted and then later sold. The “Rummage Sale” became a school tradition.
Having sealed the Hellmouth, the Scooby Gang do not realise that anything is odd when things to be sold at the first annual band fund-raising rummage sale are stored in the school basement, which is directly above the Hellmouth. The rummage sale begins, and the items on sale seem to be having an unexpected effect on those that buy them. Even Xander and Willow are soon affected. The situation gets more serious resulting in the school being quarantined leaving Buffy and Giles to sort things out before the items get sold elsewhere.
Potter is enlisted by Witherall for help in solving the murder, along with intrepid housewife Topsey Beaton. Together they deceive an entire rummage sale, enlist the Scarlet Wimpernel to play a role, find the man in green satin, locate the left leg, and solve the murder.
Dalton does not have its own schools. Children from the area attend schools in Fergus Falls, Ashby, or Underwood. Each year, Dalton hosts an annual Summerfest Day the final weekend in June. During this celebration, an all-city rummage sale is held, a Relay for Life fundraising event is held in conjunction with a large softball tournament, and a street dance is held on that weekend's Saturday evening.
The Art club holds exhibits and competitions throughout the year where the community is asked to attend and place bids on the artwork that is being shown. AVID seniors and juniors conduct AVID tutorials at a local middle school every minimum day Wednesday. Students earn community service hours for participating and volunteering in this event. The Bible Club, with assistance from other clubs on campus, hosts a community rummage sale.
Henry decides to visit Mr. Capper, the manager of the local paper routes, and ask him for a job. On the way, he stops at a rummage sale and ends up buying some kittens. These cause him some embarrassment when he visits Mr. Capper, who tells him he's not old enough for a route. In an attempt to impress Mr. Capper and get the job, Henry decides to sell subscriptions to the newspaper.
William Rutherford – Vice President, Mrs. Redman – Treasurer, and Mrs. H.J. Omera – Secretary. The men would inform the ladies of what items they needed and the ladies would help to raise the money. By the end of 1948, the ladies had raised funds as a result of a rummage sale, food sales, flower sales, ice cream festivals, a Stanley party, refreshments sold at movies, a box supper, a cake walk and their monthly penny march.
A bizarre chain of events followed the buck after it was left in the hands of local taxidermist, George VanCastle. After several months of waiting to get the mount back, Jim travelled to George’s house in Hinckley, Minnesota only to find out he had moved. However, unbeknownst to Jim, the mount was still in the attic of George’s house. In 1958, the original Jordan Buck mount showed up at a rummage sale in Sandstone, Minnesota.
Every year, Francis Creek hosts a Village-wide Rummage Sale where residents host individual rummage sales on the first weekend of June. The Francis Creek Lions Club provides a food tents at Wagner's Restaurant (formally the bank) which is located on the corner of South Packer Drive and Forest Home Drive. Every year, Francis Creek holds French Creek Days on the second weekend in July. People gather from many of the neighboring cities to see the tractor and truck pulls.
When the Auxiliary was formed in 1938 one of the major fund-raising programs was a rummage sale called Bargain Mart. The countless hours of work accumulating items to sell from clothing to furniture, along with running the event proved to be successful. Bargain Mart was held in a hall on Broadway April, 1939, expanding to a fall bazaar which tea and goods were sold. One day sales were held annually in various halls throughout the city until 1949 when the then fifty members decided to pioneer.
Shopko Hall had 43,680 square feet (4058 m2) of column-free exhibit space. It also featured an enclosed ticket office, a private show office, and concession stands, as well as walkways connecting it to the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena and the Resch Center. The venue primarily hosted trade shows, conventions, seminars, banquets, and intimate concerts. Shopko Hall hosted over 100 events every year, including the Titletown Train Show, Everybody's Rummage Sale, WBAY Pet Expo, WBAY RV & Camping Show, Home and Garden Show, and Senior Expo.
On June 14, 2003, LeeAnna was last seen walking barefoot home from her friend's house, which was approximately a block and a half away from her own home. Kaelin Warner informed the authorities that they had just returned home from the Side Lake Rummage Sale. Despite Kaelin's protests that LeeAnna needed to rest, her daughter decided that she wanted to go play with her friend, who lived only a few streets away. Kaelin gave her permission to go as long as LeeAnna was home by 5 p.m.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a lampshade purported to be made from the skin of a Jewish Holocaust victim, turned up in a sidewalk rummage sale in New Orleans. It was purchased for $35 by Skip Henderson, a local New Orleans man just returned to the City from Katrina evacuation. Henderson subsequently sent the lampshade to his friend Mark Jacobson, thinking that the Brooklyn writer would be interested in searching into the history of the object. Jacobson then embarks on a 5 year quest to discover the true origin of the lampshade.
Caroll Edwin Spinney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1933, to Chester and Margaret Spinney. His mother, a native of Bolton, England, named him Caroll because he was born the day after Christmas. He drew and painted from childhood, and developed a love of puppeteering when he saw a performance of "Three Little Kittens" at the age of five. This motivated him to purchase a monkey puppet from a rummage sale three years later and put on a puppet show utilizing the monkey and a plush snake.
Seeing a catalog in men's fashion, Scrooge reflects that a man of his wealth should wear better quality clothes than what he often wears, or as he said "an old broadcloth I found at a rummage sale in Scotland in 1902". Scrooge feels that he should wear a coat of gold and provides gold bars. However, his tailor warns that the coat would be crinkly, as it would be the same as converting bauxite to tinfoil. The tailor says there is no feasible way to make a gold coat unless somehow the Golden Fleece exists.
In the 1960s, Clinton F. Larsen developed poetry in a faithful modernist style, but it was not until the mid-1980s that novels emerged in this mode. Starting in the 1970s. BYU professors Douglas Thayer and Donald R. Marshall began to write skillful stories that explored Mormon thought and culture in a critical but fundamentally affirmative way. Marshall published collections The Rummage Sale: Collections and Recollections (1972) and Frost in the Orchard (1977). Thayer began publishing stories in BYU Studies and Dialogue in the mid-1960s, and published his collection of short stories, Under the Cottonwoods, in 1977.
The interior of HoG. The store is divided into two distinct sections: the front part, facing Titus Avenue, houses all varieties of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and bass guitars as well as drums, keyboards and amplifiers. The rear section, accessible from a back door near Grange Pl. or from the front through a short maze of corridors, houses the music collection. At first sight, the music store appears as more of a rummage sale, with nearly everything arranged in a state of disarray, however, simply asking an employee for help is an option, as most employees know where everything is.
Typical moments include the boys losing their clothes and stealing more from a rummage sale that has only women's, or Soup painting his name on a barn without permission and running the "p" over onto the corner, causing the farmer to yell "'Souf'! I'll get you 'Souf'!" There are several sequels to this book, including Soup and Me, Soup for President, Soup on Fire, Soup's Hoop, and Soup 1776. Soup and Me and Soup For President were adapted into half-hour television episodes starring Christian Berrigan and Shane Sinutko for the series The ABC Weekend Special.
On November 22, 1963, Betty and Preston Henn opened the Thunderbird Drive-in Theater. In the beginning, there was one screen (still in use today as Screen 9) — and a reputation for showing adult movies, which concerned passing motorists. Initially the parking lot was divided by a fence to divide the white customers from the African American customers. After a 1966 trip to the American West Coast, Henn decided to add a flea market, allowing the region to have a collective rummage sale and encouraging the start of many small businesses in southeastern Florida. The addition ushered in a period of expansion (to 11 screens by 1980) and increased popularity.
Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child. The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing". Gates (right) with Paul Allen at Lakeside School in 1970 At 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school, where he wrote his first software program. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers' Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the students.
Garage sale in northern California Diverse items bought at a moving sale held in Boise, Idaho A garage sale (also known as a yard sale, tag sale, moving sale and by many other namesSome rarely used names include "attic sale," "basement sale," "rummage sale," "thrift sale," "patio sale" and "lawn sale.") is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be required). Typically the goods in a garage sale are unwanted items from the household with its owners conducting the sale. The conditions of the goods vary, but they are usually usable.
According to Marvin Gaye's relatives, the elder Marvin Gay was a passable self-taught piano player. He bought a secondhand piano at a rummage sale and coached his son in piano lessons, which the younger Marvin Gay learned by ear, and it was one of the few stable times in the father and son's relationship. Marvin Sr. nurtured Marvin Jr.'s musical talents, so long as he stuck with liturgical music. However, by the late 1940s, Gay had left the House of God to join another sect called the House of the Living God, but soon returned to the House of God to head its Board of Apostles in the early 1950s.
Comedy on Vinyl is a weekly podcast in which the host, comedian and actor Jason Klamm, discusses a favorite comedy album with that week's guest, usually someone from the world of comedy or entertainment. Notable guests include Harry Shearer, Tommy Chong, Rusty Warren, Doctor Demento, Philip Proctor of The Firesign Theatre and Bermuda Schwartz (archivist and drummer for Weird Al Yankovic). In 2015, the podcast, along with guest Jeff Abraham, premiered a long-lost, in-studio (without audience) track about Paul Revere that Abraham discovered on an acetate at a rummage sale. On December 27, 2018, the podcast released its first narrative-style episode, chronicling the host's search for, and discovery of, the true identity of comedian Dick Davy.
She prepares for her departure from Kenya to Denmark by appealing to the incoming governor to provide land for her Kĩkũyũ workers to allow them to stay together, and by selling most of her remaining possessions at a rummage sale. Denys visits the now-empty house and Karen comments that the house should have been so all along and, as with her other efforts, the returning of things to their natural state is as it should be. Denys says that he was just getting used to her things. As he is about to depart for a safari scouting trip in his airplane, they agree that the following Friday he will return and fly her to Mombasa; with Karen then continuing on to Denmark.
On the other extreme, a pawnshop with a huge inventory has several disadvantages. If the store is crammed with used athletic gear, old stereos, and old tools, the store owner must spend time and money shelving and sorting items, displaying them on different stands or in glass cases, and monitoring customers to prevent shoplifting. If there are too many low-value, poor quality items, such as old toasters, scratched-up 20-year-old TVs, and worn-out sports gear piled into cardboard boxes, the store may begin to look more like a rummage sale or flea market. Small, high- value items such as iPod players or cell phones must be in locked glass display cases, which means the owner may need additional staff to unlock the cabinets for items customers want to examine.
She is later found guilty and flees the house to avoid her sentencing, leaving a goodbye note for the girls. Meanwhile, Joy learns that her son has decided to not see her just yet, but that's the least of her problems: She just learned that the INS plans to deport her back to England, so she must find a way to get a green card... which is where Rick comes in. Although she does accept his offer of "marriage" (knowing that Rick still plans to be a "player"), this unusual relationship and Rick's plan to use this ruse to bed other women would be ruined when Rick tried to smooth talk their immigration lawyer. On top of that, she tells Elka after being arrested by Pete for taking money in a rummage sale drug deal (she sold a guy Victoria's "chill pills") that she was a shoplifter as a teenager.
In North America, the United Kingdom and some other European countries, the term charity bazaar can be used as a synonym for a "rummage sale", to describe charity fundraising events held by churches or other community organisations in which either donated used goods (such as books, clothes and household items) or new and handcrafted (or home- baked) goods are sold for low prices, as at a church or other organisation's Christmas bazaar, for example. Although Turkey offers many famous markets known as "bazaars" in English, the Turkish word "pazar" refers to an outdoor market held at regular intervals, not a permanent structure containing shops. English place names usually translate "çarşı" (shopping district) as "bazaar" when they refer to an area with covered streets or passages. For example, the Turkish name for the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is "Kapalıçarşı" (gated shopping area), while the Spice Bazaar is the "Mısır Çarşısı" (Egyptian shopping area).
During this same period, she caught Max Medina, her literature teacher, passionately kissing Rory's mother Lorelai, and spread the gossip to assert herself over Rory and to take the heat off the negative attention she was receiving in the wake of the divorce. After Rory confronts Paris and asks her to explain why she's treating her the way she is when she was nothing but nice to Paris, she reveals some sorrow and guilt over spreading the news and speaks out about how the divorce has affected her. Knowing the girl was in a tough position, Rory tells Paris that if she needs help with anything, she can come to her and talk about anything she might need to. The girls are then put together for a project in a government class (along with Madeline and Louise), and the four decide to use Rory's home in Stars Hollow as a meeting place for the project, which just happens to be at the same time Lorelai is organizing the town's rummage sale, filling the house with assorted clothes and merchandise.

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