Have you started going to garage sales yet?

Wow, great items you had. I love garage sales, especially when the items come from friends. Because you know they are still working.~~lol And you can have great bargain, which will help a lot on the budget. By the way, may I know who is the gorilla,I mean his story? Would love to hear it. Have a nice day Hockeygal! (^^,)

I was so disappointed when our town instituted a bylaw about garage sales. We are only allowed to have two per year and they have to be on the specific days that are determined by the city council. Half of the districts get one weekend, the other half get the next weekend. So it really limits how much bargain hunting we can do locally -- especially if we want to hold a garage sale ourselves (which we usually do with our 13 year old daughter who is working hard at fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society). It sounds like you got some good bargains, hockeygal! I DEFINITELY know what you mean about people overcharging though!! We have a few folks in our neighborhood that do that and I'm not sure why they are selling their stuff if they feels it's worth sooooo much. We always price our items to give a starting point but, of course, we expect people to "bargain" -- part of the fun of going to a garage sale in the first place LOL

i often go to this kind of sale whenever we have them here. I guess our car boot sales are the same thing and if you search through all the junk you can find some great bargains blessed be

I have never done garage sales, my sister used to love to go to them when I stayed with her (she lives in Dallas), and I did see alot of them going on this weekend, we were just so busy with the kids, but my favorite thing to do is buy things from craiglist.org, which to me is a huge garage sale online, you see the picture, you email and then you go the person's house and buy. Gotta love it.

Here in the UK we have boot fairs, when people take their cars to a field and set up a stall. I am planning to go to one soon, with all the clutter I have to clear from the house and hopefully I will make a few pounds too. I have bought some great bargains from boot fairs in the past, so it's time I cleared the junk and earned some money :-)

I really love garage sales for we can find great buys there at a low price. Its sad that those garage sales is far from our home. but the good thing about that is that I won't be addicted to it for a little bit of everything is bad you know hehe.. I really love finding things there like clothes, bags but oftentimes, I find those things on the garage sale online at multiply.com he he. The shipping costs more than the item I want to buy ha ha!

My kids had a way of bending the silverware into odd shapes. I could never bend them back into the original shape. Many would end up in the back yard or completely disappear! I was always picking up replacements at tag sales. I have yet to go to a tag sale this year. There have been a few of them. Hubby doesn't like to go, but I bet now that we have our friend living with us, he may start going. Our friend loves to go to tag sales.

I haven't gone to any garage sales yet. I don't have any extra money just yet. I have to fix my car again and that comes first. Plus it was raining and I was working from 1030 to 4 on friday and saturday. I have a scrabble game that the things were made in wood. I might go in a few weeks or have my own garage sale.

hockeygal4ever, you'd love it here in Florida. Garage sales, yard sales, church group sales, indoor and outdoor flea markets year round. We can't get enough of them. If we're going garage sale hunting on early Saturday mornings you'll see quite a few of the same cars as you hit different sales. I grew up in New Jersey and remember that if it wasn't for indoor flea markets then there was nothing else for a good 6 months at least. ‹(°¿°)›

Yard and garage sales are not in full swing yet in my town. Next weekend (May 18, 19, & 20) is the dogwood festival. A big carnival and celebration with a parade too- This is usually when the yard sales start up. Most people hold off until then- they get more traffic with the out of town people coming in for the weekend. It’s a big to do. A weekend in June is when I go to Gonanda- It’s a pretty nice subdivision that has yard sales- I usually get some great finds there too! Sounds like you got some awesome deals! Tell your son to stop eating the silverware- : ) I’d love the Scrabble board (wooden) I’m sure my daughter would not believe that it was once wooden either!

We had a giant garage sale in the next town over from me two weekends ago, It was a firemans garage sale, people donate stuff to them all year long, and then they sell stuff at the yard sale once a year to make some money to support themselves. It's a pretty good idea if you ask me. I went and i got some baby toys for my daughter, a few books for me, a chair for when she is older ( you know the sponge ones with the cover, this one has the bugs life on it ), and i almost got a slow cooker, but the nob was missing on the lid :/ i should have got it and replaced the kno b, it was near brand new! There is a nother one in a town near here soon, i think the first of june, and they have everyone in the town out selling stuff, and i would LOVE to go to taht one. They call it a GIANT WING DING. I have never heard of a yard, or garage sale called a wing ding. lol.

I have not yet began my yard sale quest this year because the good ones haven't started yet! There have only been four or five in the past few weeks, and honestly, they were so small with mainly just infant items that I didn't even stop.

Hi hockeygal4ever, I will be hitting the Garage Sales this weekend as last weekend was busy. I cant wait! They are one of my favorite things about the arival of Spring. I'm not really looking for anything specific, but you never know what you'll find!

they charged as much as the stores? yikes.that's too much. people really haven't started having them yet here-the weather's been too unpredictable.i hope soon though.

in Singapore, where everyone lives in aparment blocks, we seldom ever have or see garage sales, which is quite a pity in my opinion. but people are trying to change that culture by introducing flea markets, some of which are held during the weekends in the city area or the shopping districts

Yes, I love yard sales, and flea markets...I think I enjoy going to flea markets better though more of a variety...and yeah I agree most f the time you can find some really great deals there.

I have went to a few, but last weekend was the first weekend that there was very many. I was busy and didn't get to go. I might get to go to a few this weekend.

I have a friend who goes to garage sales as if they were part of her religion. If she finds one along the road that isn't in her papers, she has to stop at it too. My problem is I don't have enough cash to shop at garage sales or stores.

I love yards sales or moving sales. My boyfriend and I are hoping to have our own this weekend. We are going to be moving into a new place together and it's time to get rid of a lot of the clutter. We usually do oe every year in fact, and whatever dosen't get sold, gets put inthe car and taken to Goodwill....so no matter what, we get rid of all our stuff some way or another. I have gotten some pretty good deals at yard sales too. I used to live in a neighborhood that the most most amazing yard sales...One of my favorites was a giant antique steamer chest for $2...and the guys even carried it to my house. Such a deal!

hey there! We saw a sign for a multi family one that was going to be last saturday but darn it, we forgot all about it! I was a little disappointed, I really wanted to go! Sounds like you got some great deals! And I hate when people charge a fortune, um hello?! It's a garage sale! It's supposed to be cheap! I don't buy anything overpriced from a garage sale. I am excited its garage sale season though! I love garage sale-ing!