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It’s a fact these days that a multitude of people are really into hitting garage sales on a Saturday or Sunday or both. When to admit when one is addicted to garage sales, hopefully, never arises because there’s almost nothing too crazy about hitting them. They can be a way of getting the things one needs but also finding the things that one really wants.

Most of us know the difference between needing something and wanting something, and a garage sale is an outstanding vehicle for satisfying that second characteristic, most would say. To illustrate; almost all of us understand that we don’t need something like an Ibanez electric guitar, but many of us will certainly want one, especially for a boy or man of just about any age, it seems.

This is where things get even funnier, because it’s usually the case that the toys that men and boys gather about them are only separated by their cost. For example, about every four years men all around the country convince themselves that they, too, can be Olympic downhill skiers. That’s when they hit garage sales looking for alpine skiing equipment to satisfy that lust for a gold medal.

Still in all, at least those men were looking at getting into an outdoor activity that consisted of more than sitting on a lawn chair, with a beer, and holding the hose while sprinkling the grass under a big lawn umbrella. Truthfully, it was probably worth the money spent on that skiing equipment just to get the guy up off the couch and out at some garage sale, right?

And that’s where the beauty of garage sales come in; for they can be held at just about any time — though they’re most popular during the summer months — and for whatever reason. Need some extra money to finally put in that dormer? Well, hold a garage sale and get rid of all the junk that can help to fund the dormer.

Even the winter months can be a time to hold a garage sale. Just plop a portable space heater down in the garage and get to work holding one. And if going to other people’s garage sales is the thing most dear to one’s heart, driving endlessly in big swooping loops around the 20 different neighborhoods in the vicinity of the garage sale can help feed that addiction quite nicely.

Sociologists and anthropologists are probably having a field day with this country’s obsession with garage sales, both the holding of them and the searching for them. But, they just don’t know how alluring finding some obscure set of record albums by some Greek Pan flute player can be, now do they?