Garage Sale Season Is Coming
By terilee79720
@terilee79720 (3621)
United States
January 14, 2008 11:04am CST
I love garage sales, flea markets, estate sales, and bargain barns. I find great deals in places like these and can spend an entire day going to them.
Pretty soon, it will be warm enough for people to start having garage sales. I haven't had a garage sale in years. I think this year, if I can make time for it, I'm going to have a huge garage sale and get rid of a bunch of things that we just don't need any longer. Besides, it's a great way to make some extra cash!
Do you enjoy garage sales? Are you going to have one this year? What's the best thing you ever bought in a garage sale?
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@tamararacine (268)
• United States
14 Jan 08
I love going to garage and yard sales!!! A couple months ago when I found out I was pregnant I started hitting them and I got a baby swing in perfect condition for $4 and a high chair for $2!!!
I used to have them alot but where I live now in condominiums, they do not allow it.
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
14 Jan 08
Great bargains! You never know what you can find at 'em.....
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@sizzle3000 (3036)
• United States
14 Jan 08
I love going yardsaling. I get all kinds of great things. I have bought clothes, shoes and toys. I have even bought wiskey at a sale once. I love to save money any this is a great way to do so. I also have about two to three sales a year myself. I love to save money when I go shopping. My husband says I will buy anything as long as it is onsale or free. I have to admit that I love rebates and coupons. I do a great job shopping at CVS, Riteaid, and walgreens. I take all my over stock in shampoo, conditioners, toothpaste, toothbrushes and much more. I do very well when I have my sale. I pass on the bargains to my neighbors. Last summer I bought six pairs of jeans for .50 cents each. I do not have to buy pants for a while. They are jeans that are in style as well that made the deal even better. Happy yardsaling to you.
@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
Happy yardsales to you too sizzle. I just love 'em. Such great bargains and I can always find something that I just 'have to have'.....
Love it, Love it, Love it....
@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
14 Jan 08
I love garage sales, and I love having them too! We buy abandoned self-storage units at auction, and so I have several during the summer. I even have people who come by every time just to see what's "new." I haven't been to as many since I started doing this, since I can just pick and choose what I want from the storage unit! I have given our own kids whatever they needed when their babies arrived, kept some nice furniture for my own house, lots of playclothes for the grandkids. I get a lot of toys, too, but don't let the grandkids have very many of them because they have enough stuff they don't play with already! Whatever doesn't sell after a few tries gets taken to the local thrift shop, or I put it on the curb and someone hauls it away. It's amazing what people won't give you a nickel for but will haul away if it's free!
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
14 Jan 08
It's amazing the things people leave in those storage units. I used to work in a storage place and have ended up with a lot of stuff from units people just walk off and left. Amazing.....
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
People always buy baby clothes at garage sales. You would probably make some good extra money - Then you could buy more stuff.......LOL
I think Grandmas and garage sales go together like grandmothers and kitchen aprons.
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
15 Jan 08
Hehehe. I LOVE yard sales! My kids have been known to cover my eyes as we pass them, which was not too safe when I was the one driving!
We were visiting my brother who was still in California one year, parking wherever we could get away with it and sleeping in the motor home. The town where my brother lived had a homeless shelter where people donated their unwanted stuff. These guys didn't have use for most of it so they put it on tables out in front for anybody to help themselves to. Man it was like being in hog heaven! One of my favorite finds there was a beautifully decorated cow collar! I still have it today, I'm just waiting to get a pet cow to put it on. Or maybe it would fit a goat, cause I'd rather have a goat than a cow.
Then we went up to Oregon to see my dad in our motor home STUFFED full of the goodies we had accumulated, but my sister was back on the East coast with her new baby and wanted us to come and meet her before she went back to Hawaii. We wanted to sell the motor home and speed back in our little car, so we started shipping back all the stuff we wanted to keep and sold off the rest.
We were parked on a piece of property my dad owned, right on the highway, so we put out a sign that said 'moving sale'. Hardly anybody stopped until, taking the advice of a new friend, we changed the sign to read 'Estate Sale'.
Hehehehe, it was hilarious... people started flocking to our motor home parked by the side of the road with the 'Estate Sale' sign in front of it!!!
I am including a photo of my most wonderful hammock that I got at a yard sale for 4 bucks.
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
LOL zigzag......How funny.....
I love the motor home story.
I keep telling my husband it would be so cool to be one of those people who park their motor home at flea markets and set up shop for a day or two - then drive to the next flea market in another town. I think it would be a great way to see the country and maybe make a little extra money at the same time - while having fun.
What a hoot......
Love the hammock....LOL
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
15 Jan 08
That would be an ideal way to fund a life on the open road!
We started out in a Van and ran out of money while we were still on the east coast. I got the idea to pull into rest areas with a sign written on the back of a pizza box that said we were stranded and needed gas money.
The kids were so embarrassed that they hid in the van and made me stand out there by myself since it was my idea. But after I got back in the car an hour later with 130 bucks they changed their tune! So that's what we did all the way across the country. It was much easier, and more fun, with the kids and the puppy (Wolfgang Amedeus!) frolicking about. One time in a rest area in Oklahoma a guy gave us 100 bucks! On the other hand in Texas a car full of guys drove by and slung a bunch of pennies at us.
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
I guess it takes all kinds zigzag. Forgive the dumb butts from Texas. They were probably rednecks.......more like dumb butts.......which we have a lot of around here......
I can hardly wait for my husband to retire and take out on the open road to - - - to - - - well, let's just say, I can hardly wait.
@happygreat (172)
• China
15 Jan 08
I once read something about American's garage sell. I think it is very interesting. In university of China, we ususlly sell our old groceried in the campus. It is very interesting and we can make good use of our spare things.
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
That's right happy. Very interesting. It's the best way to get rid of things you don't want and make extra cash at the same time.
@Inky261 (2520)
• Germany
14 Jan 08
Garage sales are great. Too bad that I live in a country where people do not have garage sales.
That is something I really miss here.
I once bought an U.S. soldiers foot locker at a garage sale in the States that has accompanied me most of my life.
It is a very handy toy.
Happy mylotting!
@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
15 Jan 08
Maybe you could start a new trend where you live now. Wouldn't that be something.