Bridgeport, CT Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Section 5.68.010 attaches its limits to the residence, not to the seller, so everyone living at a Bridgeport address shares the same allowance of three tag sales in a calendar year. The two-day ceiling is measured in consecutive calendar days, which means a weekend sale that runs Saturday and Sunday uses one of the year's three sales, and a seller cannot stretch a single sale into a longer run by keeping it open day after day.

The ordinance is just as strict about what goes on the tables as about how often they appear. Only household goods from the particular residence conducting the sale may be offered. The code then closes the loophole a reseller might look for: items purchased, bartered, or otherwise obtained from other sources for the purpose of resale will not be construed as household items. In plain terms, a Bridgeport tag sale is for clearing out your own home, not for flipping merchandise picked up elsewhere. Goods brought over from another household fall outside the definition too, because the code ties eligible items to the residence where the sale actually takes place.

Enforcement runs on a per-day, per-occurrence basis. Each day a violation continues generates its own one-hundred-dollar fine, and each separate occurrence is fined on its own, so a sale that breaks the rules on both of its days accrues the fine twice over.