Comments on: Operation Garage Sale: Totally Exhausted

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Weekly Weight Loss Progress - OMG! » Blogging Away Fat — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:37:41 +0000

[...] it’s off to more work around the house. I’ve been keeping active getting ready for our garage sales and cleaning and repairing our home. I have spent very little time sitting still (except for work) [...]

By: natalie

natalie — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:07:20 +0000

To feed my Garage Sale fix I built http://www.garagesalenation.com, it maps out all the sales in the country. Last weekend I had over 24,000 sales mapped on it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:44:21 +0000

Sounds like it was a smashing success – congrats.

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Net Worth and Credit Card Update - Major Changes » Blogging Away Debt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:19:41 +0000

[...] profile, I had given myself a value of $8,000 for our personal possessions. Well, after having our garage sale this past weekend, I realized that there is no way we could easily get $8,000 by selling our stuff. [...]

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:06:10 +0000

You may want to consider eBay for any leftover “chachka” (niknaks, your eagle figurines, kids toys or clothes)..some of it may sell, you’d be surprised! I do a quick search first to see if there is anything similiar listed, and what it’s selling for and see if it is worth your while. Craigslist as well, you can sell kids toys or clothes as a “lot” of items and get rid of them. May be worth looking into, you can make a few extra bucks!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:13:57 +0000

We used leftover plywood and made makeshift tables. We also put a pole between 2 ladders and I hung the clothes for sale and we sold a TON more that way b/c it was easy to look at. I started mine at 8 am (yawn) but it was worth it.
Way to go!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:37:54 +0000

We had ours Friday, and continued into Saturday morning because we had big stuff we wanted to sell. It was a good weekend for every garage sale I know of. Hot as Hades though. We made about $200 as well. I got rid of almost everything I had in the sale though. I’m going to post about it soon on my blog too.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:34:44 +0000

Hi! That is a great take if you had no large items!

About the tables – we had the same problem last summer and ended up buying some cheap lumber at the last minute and balancing it on stools to make 3 additional tables. We also had some large boxes and inverted them to put lightweight things like stuffed animals on them. Still wasn’t enough room, though, and much of our stuff ended up being on tarps on the ground – which I’ll try to avoid next time since a lot of people don’t like bending over so much.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:01:41 +0000

Sorry to double post but I meant to ask you if you’ve considered listing things for sale on craigslist (craigslist.org)? At the end of my sale I took pictures of some things that were worth posting and have people coming by this evening to take a look at them. It’s a bit more work in selling the item but it’s worth it.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:59:37 +0000

Congratulations on the success of your sale! That’s awesome! I had a driveway sale this past weekend as well and made $101! I was able to pay a bill with part of it and the rest I will use for groceries this week.

By: glblguy

glblguy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:16:01 +0000

I’d say you did good. We had one over the weekend as well. They are a great way to clean house and pay off debt!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:49:25 +0000

That’s a good take if nothing was over $5.00! The most I ever made was about $800, but that was when I was moving to a new city and sold a bunch of furniture and w/d. Because I live in an apartment, I haven’t had a garage sale in a long time, so I just donate it. Either way…decluttering is very satisfying! Good luck on round 2!

By: MoneyDummy

MoneyDummy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:39:43 +0000

Congratulations!!! Hearing all about your wonderful success makes me wonder if I should have had a garage sale, rather than decluttering so much to the thrift store. *Laugh*

By: Tricia

Tricia — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:04:17 +0000

Dedicated – well, my son gets to keep the money from the toys he sold and the soda pop (he sold cans). The rest I will be using towards debt and/or our savings.

By: Dedicated

Dedicated — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:21:14 +0000

I think $250 is great. I wish I had the “whatever it takes” to do one myself. With 5 kids, I know I could sell a ton and clean my home of clutter all at the same time.

Good for you. Putting the money towards debt, family fun or getting by?

By: SingleGuyMoney

SingleGuyMoney — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:15:34 +0000

Good job on the yard sale. When my mom and aunts would have yard sales, that is about what they would make.