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I’ve always been a huge sucker for a yard sale (or “tag sale,” as we called them back in New England). Cruising around the neighborhood on a bike, it’s a low-bar way to have a chat with a neighbor and also a sort of voyeuristic pleasure, like a visit to the museum of someone’s life. There are the tchotchkes from a long-ago trip to Greece, the Easy-Bake Oven harkening back to life in the 1970s, the abandoned exercise equipment yearning to tell its story. And every once in a while, there are the really weird finds, like the WWI-era glass ampules of morphine I found at a Latona yard sale one year, or this 1950s “Home Pony,” a functional cellulite-reduction massager straight off an episode of I Love Lucy. Best $10 I ever spent.

I used to check Craigslist for my city-wide yard sale map, but that seems to have fallen out of favor as Facebook has sucked up general mindshare without providing a way to advertise yard sales outside of posting to your neighborhood group.

So it is with great pleasure that I announce Wallyhood’s solution: a neighbor-driven yard sale list and map. Here’s how it works. You post your yard sale, including address, days and times, along with a short description, and it will show up in a date-sorted list as well as on our map. Easy peasy.

We’ll post a roundup here every Friday morning of whatever sales are coming up, or you can just click the “Yard Sales” link in Wallyhood’s header anytime.

I hope you enjoy it. Send suggestions to me by email. I’ve reached out to our neighbors at MyBallard, PhinneyWood, and Capitol Hill Seattle blogs and offered it up to them as well. The more the merrier, as far as I’m concerned.