Have you ever had a garage or yard sale? Did it yield good money for you?

Well, here in Brazil it's not usual and I think they will think it's a weird thing to do in a garage, but personaly I think it's a interesting idea. Even so I think here it will not work as expected.

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, Wll,my hubby never allows anything to be disposed-off, as his rememberences/memories are attatched in them. He will wait till they perish by themselves. We have some boxes more tha 100 yrs old (from his graet grand mother).I have my crockery since 55 yrs, though we never use. My hubby is using a dress for more than 20 yrs. Recently, he kept his watch after using it for almost 30 yrs, to be used by his grand son, when he reaches 15 yrs (another 12 yrs to go) We have sufficient funds and do not require at the cost of our memories. May god bless You and have a great time.

That's a great thing karen! Here, it's not popular. How I wish it to be! We have a whole lot of things which are relatively new and in good condition. We keep them in the attic and eventually give them away. The clothes I give to an orphanage but other stuffs just go ashtray! When are you giving your next? Do take a snap and share with us.

Wow, that's a nice chunk of change! I personally haven't had one, though I check them out on the weekends,but I've been thinking about doing it. I suppose after hearing the possible profits, I should get busy and start collecting things. I have a lot of items in good condition which I'd like to sell. Thanks for the inspiration.

Here in the region we call it Ukay ukay. And I admit you can get great, nice clothes for a cheaper cost if you know how to choose. I wash the dress that I bought a many times and disinfect it to remove any bad odor or bacteria it accumulated.

It is a lot of junks!what a good deal!

We dont live in an area that is good for yard sales. But sometimes if someone is having a yard sale that we know they will let us join in to sell stuff as well. Our last yard sale sucked. The woman who let us come join her didn't put signs up around untill around eight. THen she decided to have it in her carport which is practically in her backyard so its out of site. I only sold one thing.

Ahhh, garage sales. I don't think I have had one for almost twenty years. I think I made about $200 for that sale. At the time, that was a lot of money also. My daughter was thinking that we should have a garage sale but give everything away for free. She thought that might help people who cannot afford even the resale shops.

Hi Karen...and God did I ever. I swore I would never have another one as long as I lived. As soon as everyone in the family got wind I was thinking about having one they all called and ask about bringing things over they would like to get rid of and would I put them in my yard sale as they didn't really have enough to have one themselves. Oh what a mistake. By the time the day of the yard sale came I think I had something that belonged to every member of my family and no help from anyone. Everyone had a previous appointment or was working or had some excuse so that left me to man the crowd. And what a crowd. To this day I don't know how I got through it and kept things as straight as I could as far as who's money was who's. It was very successful but I had trouble getting the family members that had dropped things off to come and get theri items that did not sale so I called the charity truk and we loaded everything up on it and if there was something that shouldn't have went...OH WELL!!!!...they were asked to come pick it up and didn't and I was tired of it being in my way. After all that is why I had a yard sale was to get rid of clutter. flutterby

I would think depending in the area you live in? people here take their stuff to flea-markets/swap-meets. most of the time its a gamble. I guess advertizing would hurt. putting signs in corner directing people, and sometimes some local radio stations advertize for free. A garage sale is also very usefull, you get rid of old things, make extra room in the home, and you make some money back on things you bough previously. Very good way get bigger and better things =P

I think the trick to these things in marketing and location. The more people know about it, think that it's going to be big, and has an easy location to get to, the better I think you can do. Also having items that people are looking for. There must be a top 10 list of items people go shopping for at garage sales. I'm thinking furniture is somewhere on the list.

Many years ago i wanted to buy a garage and then to sale it, but here in Italy a garage make you not earn much money so i decided to hold my money to the bank, maybe a day I will buy a house....

yeah.. and it sis yield a good money. it helped us buy furniture and other stuff for our house.. yay!

I did two yard sales at my home last year and earned about $300 combined. I went to a flea market this year and made that in 4 hours of my time. I was shocked. I do alot of couponing and sell extra stuff that we won't use. However I found at my yard sale none of my household items sold but at the flea market people bought just about everything. It really has me looking around my house for more stuff that I don't need. We have way to much stuff and if I can make an extra buck then good for us! I also sell items on Craigslist and have always done well. I will only meet people however in well populated places and I always take my husband. My goal for next year is to pay for a Disney vacation with selling my stash (as my husband call my coupon stuff) and things we don't need or have outgrown.

We have had several yard sales in the past, and one a few months ago. We only made about 25.00 from the last one, but we had the stuff priced very cheaply because the aim was to clean out the attic, which we did, so I would say it was a success. We live in the country now, so not as many people stop, but when we lived in town several years ago we had a lot of business and used to have a sale almost every other week. My uncle would pick up furniture and other stuff that people were throwing out, and we usually mad a good profit.

well i have made 150.$$ at a garage sale b4. i was hoping i would earn atleast 5.$$

I have had some garage sales and most of the time I make good money. I am trying to plan one now. There are things in my garage in containers and boxes than I plan to sell. I have been purging stuff from my house in order to declutter it and lighten the load some. Some things were valuable and we sold on Craigslist and EBay and made some good money off of them. When the sale is over, everything goes to charity. I wanted to sell it anyway, so there is no use of bringing it back in the house.