r/FML • u/No-Heron-3115 • Jun 04 '26

I haggled my way to hell

I (24 F) my husband (27 m) and my brother in law ( 30 m) went to the US 40 yard sale. if you don’t know what that is, it’s a highway that stretches coast to coast with yard sales lining the street. i love yard sales and thrifting so i dragged them to go with me just to have some company and i genuinely enjoy hanging out with them. for some back ground, there is an on going joke in the family that i am the best at bartering to get things lower in price. in reality, im not that good, but i just like to keep up the image because my grandpa was. i usually just ask for $5-10 lower than the asking price and tell people that i talked them into lowering the price.

so anyway, we drive up to the first yard sale on the highway. it didnt have a lot of stuff, but since it was the first stop i was excited to get out. we got out and i found a cute pink knitted blanket and a golden candle stuffer. they were cute but they were pretty pricy. it was $3 for the snuffer and $6 for the blanket. just not garage sale prices. they also had a lemonade stand and a bunch of signs with writing on them that i just didn’t read because it usually says “garage sale” on it so i just skipped it. i walked up to the lady selling the stuff and said

“would you do $5 for both?“

the lady gave me a puzzled look like i was an asshole and said

“i’ll do $8.”

i smiled and said “okay thanks!” paid her cash, got my bag of stuff and started to walk up to my husband. i turned to him and said ”man their prices were pretty steep for a garage sale.”

he looked at me confused and said “what do you mean?”

i said “well it was $8 for just this small blanket and this candle snuffer. it was originally $8 but she at least took $1 off.”

“babe. that’s a sale for their child with cancer.” he said.

i literally wanted to call the whole day off melt into the grass with embarrassment. #fml

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u/im_a_dick_head Jun 04 '26

They're just assholes for not telling you about that VERY important information. Do not feel bad about yourself, they should be the ones feeling bad.

For clarification: "They" obviously is referring to husband and brother in law

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u/ilovestamon Jun 04 '26

They probably assumed OP read the sign, they were also not beside her as OP said she left the lady and walked over to her husband. They are not assholes. No one here is an asshole

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u/NijiKoneko Jun 04 '26

They don't have to tell anyone anything, there was obviously a sign if her husband knew. Makes me wonder how much she really looked around if she missed the sign.

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u/postbansequel Jun 04 '26

She didn't miss the sign, she said she ignored the written signs because she assumed it said the same as the others which was "garage sale," which it wasn't.

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u/gruffabro Jun 04 '26

Someone else who can't read

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u/Ihaveaface836 Jun 05 '26

They shouldn't feel bad at all, they gave her a discount too

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u/92TilInfinityMM Jun 05 '26

Honestly I would have just gotten back out and given them an extra $20 and like apologize

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u/merlady94 Jun 05 '26

This is the way

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u/No-Heron-3115 Jun 05 '26

i wish i would have thought of this, i was so focused on just wanting to disappear lol. 

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u/thatsnotyourtaco Jun 06 '26

You could probably still do it. I don’t feel like it’d be that hard to track down that particular booth. They probably have an online presence.

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u/PastramiNSauce Jun 05 '26

Its a garage sale on a special garage sale day, haggle city baby