[...] been reading garage sale tips from places like the Yard Sale Queen and Get Rich Slowly (click here and here). Here are some of the tips that I used, along with how well they worked for me: Have a [...]

[...] If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Our annual neighborhood garage sale was held this past weekend. During last year’s sale I offered ten garage sale tips: [...]

No sign, no stop.

But don’t make me walk through a ton of kids size 3 jammies to find them. It seems like every garage sale on the planet has kids clothes … you don’t need a sign for that. But not many offer decent tools (still useful for their original purpose).

Which is to say that you should offer signage for anything that sets your sale apart … sports equipment, tools, furniture … whatever makes your sale just a little distinctive.

Two rusty screwdrivers don’t count as ‘tools’. One scratched up nightstand of uncertain design doesn’t either. Be serious.

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CD’s (the used, HIM, all american rejects, aerosmith, like 20 more)=

clothes=

crockpot (never opened)=

VCR (nothing wrong with it)=

VHS movies( good condition)=

new book bag ( LOTS of room)=

stuffed animals( clean)=

books ( brand new hardbacks)=

please someone answer my questions!!

[...] Last May, we held our annual garage sale on the same weekend that the Nintendo Wii was revealed. As I sat in my driveway, selling old stuff, I followed online coverage of the Wii on my laptop. I wanted one. “I’m putting this money in the bank and saving it to buy a Nintendo,” I told Kris. [...]

[...] I have a secondary low-interest savings account for short-term goals. (This is currently my Nintendo Wii fund, and contains the money I earned at our spring garage sale.) [...]

[...] After our garage sale, Kris and I put our old gas range at the side of the road and marked it FREE. We taped a note to it explaining the range’s faults and virtues. It was gone within two days. Somebody got a Very Good Deal. [...]

[...] Like garage sales, eBay is a great way to simultaneously purge your life of stuff and make money while doing so. A little extra time and care in creating your listings can yield a huge increase in profits. [...]

– start day one –
$7.00 – CDs: Billy Joel, Tears For Fears, Judds
free – the head of a broken axe
$3.00 – VHS: Vertigo (letterbox)
$2.00 – VHS: The Fountainhead
$4.00 – Books: C++ (Strousstrop) and a German play
$1.00 – white ceramic bowl
$0.50 – Tape: Rick Springfield’s Tao
$3.00 – CD: Cyndi Lauper
$3.00 – Sign: Star Fleet Personnel Only
$10.00 – unused computer speakers
$3.00 – VHS: Blade Runner (letterbox)
– noon day one –
$5.00 – Book: Networking Essentials (and workbook)
$2.00 – VHS: Secret of NIMH
$13.00 – CD boombox
$5.00 – faux old-fashioned telephone
$1.00 – garden sprayer
$1.50 – bag of diazanon
– end day one –
DAY ONE = $64.00

– start day two –
$12.50 – old rototiller
$20.00 – three boxes of Star Trek: The Next Generation books and magazines
$3.00 – CD: Ace of Base
$20.00 – cordless telelphone set
$15.00 – 6 CDs: Garth Brooks, LeAnn Rimes, Wynona Judd, Alison Kraus
$17.00 – 6 CDs: Go-Gos and others
$5.00 – CDs: Alison Kraus, Mary-Chapin Carpenter
$5.00 – CDs: Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Norah Jones
$3.00 – VHS: West Side Story (letterbox)
$5.00 – Godfather VHS and Styx CD
$65.00 – HUGE lot of good geek stuff (programming books, Tintin books, baseball books, CDs of fifties music, old time radio programs, and classical music)
$2.00 – VHS: Solaris (1970s)
$10.00 – VHS: boxed set of Alien trilogy
$2.00 – book: some mystery author
$10.00 – comics: Fantastic Four Essentials vol. 1-3
$9.00 – CDs: Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, one other
$10.00 – portable CD player and Michael Jackson HIStory CD set
– current status –
DAY TWO = $213.50
TOTAL = $277.50

My wife and sister-in-law have also sold stuff, too. There’ll be another rush here in about 45 minutes, and that will last til five. Saturday is generally the busiest day; I hold out high hopes that I’ll be able to purge some of my comic books.

Also — the proceeds from this sale will be sealed in an envelope and hidden in a safe place. I’ve decided that this money is my Nintendo Wii fund. Rembember: part of being frugal is knowing when to let yourself have some fun, too!