Pierre Omidyar replaced the yard sale with a person-to-person online auction, called eBay.
The yard sale continues at American International Group as the insurer announced it sold four-fifths of its consumer credit business to hedge fund Fortress Investment Group, bringing it that much closer to paying off Uncle Sam, though the deal offered little in terms of detail.
As pretty as it is especially once Scott and Seth Avett harmonize over the words "yard sale" it seems to dance around a larger point, opting instead for musings on war, out-of-tune guitars and lovers in the shade.
At first, The Avett Brothers' "Yardsale" unfolds as a fairly straightforward study of the mundane items at a neighborhood yard sale: From plastic flowers to a blade that may or may not have been used, the selections are viewed from a bittersweet distance, as if the band merely wants to draw a character sketch of lonely and unloved household goods.
The yard will also be advertised for sale in the Financial Times newspaper and a prospectus will be available from Friday.
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Larry joins a merry band of scooter-riders, while his unemployed neighbor (Cedric the Entertainer) seems to relish, rather than bemoan, the need to mount a permanent yard sale as a source of income.
Some buyers may appreciate the evolution of Ebay from a giant yard sale to a gargantuan mall.
Several weeks ago, the Celtics looked to be on the verge of being broken up and sold at a yard sale, along with a used coffee grinder and a Lite-Brite.
Compounding the problem is the fact that many of the people and organizations who once authenticated such works on behalf of prospective buyers, hopeful sellers, or the lucky guy who found a long-lost canvas at a yard sale, have closed their doors.
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Ours was technically a moving sale, but its dimensions were of the more modest, yard variety.
At a yard sale I bought an old shield-shaped mirror that I hung in the cellar, behind the washer and dryer.
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