Here in the UK individuals and community groups from across the country have begun to register sales on, which will remain open until Friday 25 September. Five years down the line Garage Sale Trail day has become an integral part of Australian culture (last year 70,330 sellers took part in over 8,200 sales across the whole country).
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Nichols and Valder understood that the key to its success was not only to create and make a lot of noise around a community forum – the Garage Sale Trail website – where everyone could register and advertise their sale for free and shoppers could create their own personalised trail, but also to create a one-day nationwide event which brought people out of their houses, meeting neighbours and also raising money either for the household pot or for charity. Garage Sale Trail is the brain-child two Australian friends Darryl Nichols and Andrew Valder who realised back in 2010 that all the unloved items dumped in the Bondi Beach area of Sydney had community building and fundraising potential if only there was an online marketplace to enable people to hold a physical sale in their front garden, garage or community space. Clustered in three areas: Brighton & Hove, Hackney and Todmorden in West Yorkshire (and one in Wales – anyone, anywhere in the country can take part), the organisers intend the event to become nationwide within a couple of years.
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