Sell your stuff to someone else! In August the biggest swap of stuff in the world begins with the 127 Yard Sale.
Yard sales, garage sales, tag sales — by any name — they are an American tradition and, as it happens, the biggest monster of a yard sale begins along US Route 127, where the stuff from one garage gets put into someone else's garage.
The 127 Yard Sales is an annual tradition beginning on the first Thursday through Sunday in August, according to Interesting Facts.
It is so big that it covers 690 miles, running through lawns, garages, churches, and public lots through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, all along US Route 127. It starts up in Addison, Michigan and ends in Gadsen, Alabama.
The first event took place in 1987 when a Tennessee official was looking for a way to generate traffic away from the interstate to more rural communities.
Like all yard sales, the 127 is a feast for treasure hunters. You can get anything and everything along the route, and yard sales are famous for creating the occasional millionaire.
In 2007 a simple ceramic bowl was purchased at a sale for $3. In 2013, it sold at Sotheby's auction for $2.2 million. It wasn't just any plain bowl — it was a 1,000 year old piece of pottery from the Northern Song Dynasty.
