What is a verge sale?
Also called: disposal sale, garage sale · Used in Australia, especially Queensland
A verge sale is the Australian term for selling household goods laid out on the front verge — the strip between the pavement and the road — for neighbours to buy, usually before a move. Elsewhere in Australia it is a garage sale or a disposal sale.
What it actually means in practice
The word is regional in the same way 'stoop sale' is in American cities. If you are in Brisbane you will find verge sales; in other states the same event is listed under a different name.
Local councils differ on whether goods may sit on the verge at all and on how long they may stay there, which is exactly the sort of rule the city permit pages record.
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