Letting Go

Sometimes one of the hardest things to do is decide to let things go.  If you’re like me, you spent lots of years accumulating stuff.  My goal, as a bargain hunter, was to accumulate the most stuff for the least amount of money.  So if something was on sale, I would buy 3 of them, [...]

Am I Crazy?!

I had a garage sale with a bunch of friends at my house in early May.  It was pretty successful. We made over $900 combined!  After the sale I donated some of the toys and books to a local teacher who was going to give them to needy students in the school where she worked.  [...]

Don’t throw that $3 in the garbage

I’m sure lots of you have heard that you can recycle your old ink cartridges.  Did you know that you can get up to a $30 rebate in Staples gift certificates per month?   You can trade in up to 10 ink cartridges each month.  Staples website says they only take HP, Dell or Lexmark brands [...]

Thanks for not buying

I had to share this moment with you for a second and take a break from the garage sale blogs… There’s a feeling you get when you actually sell an item at your somewhat outrageous asking price.  A thrill passes through your system and you get a bit giddy.   You want to call up your [...]

Garage sale supplies

Some items you might need to start collecting well in advance of the sale and others you can get a few weeks before, when you are ready to use them.  Where possible, borrow items to minimize your expenditures.  Items you might need to collect, purchase or borrow for your garage sale: Price stickers (pre-printed or [...]

Advertising your sale

Advertising can make or break your sale.  If people don’t know about your sale, then they won’t come to it.  The “size” of your sale should determine how much you spend on advertising.  With the advent of the internet, there are more free options for advertising your sale.  Advertising for a garage sale will consist [...]

Gathering your items

As you collect items that you want to sell in your garage sale, it is good to designate an area to put them.  This allows you to see how much stuff you have to sell and might give you ideas on how to group items for sale.  I usually have a spot in my basement [...]

Determining a location for your garage sale

If you are having a shared garage sale with friends and family then you have more possibilities on where to hold the sale. While you can hold a sale at someone’s house, there are other options that are possible. Here’s a list of possible locations for the sale: