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rummage sale

noun as in sale of unwanted items

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The Chicago Sports Spectacular, one of the country’s biggest and oldest card shows, is like a rummage sale from the days before eBay, but with way more money involved.

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Bull remembers a conversation she had decades ago with a volunteer at a rummage sale at an Episcopal church in New Orleans where she was helping the church raise funds to build a labyrinth.

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Everything inside the beach shack was tagged and priced, just like a rummage sale.

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The Kelly family recently held a rummage sale in their front yard, and a white family walked over to introduce themselves.

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The scene on a recent Friday at a Greenwich Village townhouse was like a cross between an art opening and a rummage sale.

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