Everything Must Now Go At This Minnesota Hotel's Garage Sale

Garage sales have been popular in various residential neighborhoods here in Minnesota forever, but have you ever heard of a hotel holding a garage sale?

The garage sale is a concept most Minnesotans are familiar with. The online dictionary, Oxford Languages, defines a garage sale as 'a sale of miscellaneous household goods, often held in the garage or front yard of someone's house.' And here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, they're often held in the spring, summer or fall.

The garage sale concept isn't exactly new, either. Encyclopedia.com says they've been a Minnesotan staple since the 50s and 60s, noting: 'Increased affluence in the 50s and 60s led many Americans to accumulate household goods in excess; concurrently, increased home-ownership created the venue from which to sell these goods.'

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These days, there are a LOT of garage sales, too, with Americans hosting anywhere between 9 million of them every year, Encyclopedia.com noted. But not many of them are held at a hotel... by a hotel, right?

But that's what is currently going on at the Millenium Hotel in Minneapolis. The hotel, on the Nicollet Mall, closed in November and is undergoing a $40 million dollar renovation and rebranding project, BringMeTheNews said.

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And to get ready for that project, International Content Liquidations is holding a liquidation sale, apparently selling everything in the hotel, as a post on their Facebook page notes:

Everything MUST GO!!! Hotel Liquidation Sale!!
1313 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Starting Thursday 12/5 @10am
Everyday until SOLD OUT 10-5 Mon-Sat and Sun 12-5
Dressers, Televisions, Desks, Lamps, Chairs, Linens, King and Full Size Beds, Fitness equipment and much MUCH MORE!

I'm sure there are some pretty good deals to be had, but I'm not sure I'd necessarily want to buy a used mattress that had been in service at a hotel. (I mean, how many people slept on that mattress?!? And just what happened ON that mattress?!?)

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Of course, it looks like there's much more for sale than just mattresses, though. Check out the pictures below. And speaking of garages, keep scrolling to take a walk down memory lane to see the things you'd need to clean out of a typical Minnesota garage in the 80s so you had room to hold a sale!

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