On a recent trip down to Bloomington, Indiana, I went
to a sale called “Junk in the Trunk.”
The event consisted of a group of cars and trucks together
in a parking lot selling junk right out of their trunks.
It was something like a rummage sale or flea market.
A sale like this is not uncommon, but it was neat to see, and to think about selling out of the back of your vehicle. These people had certainly arranged to set up shop in the lot, which was across the street from a recreation center.
But what if you just pulled into some random parking lot and started selling stuff? If you didn’t have a yard, but you had a car with a trunk, it would be good way to have a sale. You could avoid the fees of a typical flea market. Then again, someone always owns the parking lot, or wherever you happen to be, so it could be subject to restrictions. I see fruit and vegetable sellers in Chicago selling out of the back of their pick-up trucks, and I don’t know if they have permits or not.
Perhaps one day, a renegade band of sellers will hit the roads and parking lots with spontaneous Junk in the Trunk sales.
“Perhaps one day, a renegade band of sellers will hit the roads and parking lots with spontaneous Junk in the Trunk sales.”
That’s cool, but it’ll probably never happen here in VA. Just to hold a garage sale, you have to buy a $5 permit, so I’m sure anything spontaneous is out. VA likes to tax people to death, which is why I’m hot to get outta here!