by Beks
My husband and I were invited to bring our garage sale items over to my sister-in-law’s parent’s home for a neighborhood garage sale. No need to hang our own signs or advertise? Heck yes!
We arrived at 7:15 and sold a good portion of the items by 9:30 – mostly because my husband will sell you just about anything for a dollar.
I was getting a bit agitated at my husband’s negotiating skills (he’ll agree to any price as long as he doesn’t have to cart it back home) and was considering saying something but decided to keep my mouth shut and trust his judgment.
We arrived at my sister-in-law’s parent’s home with a full sized truck bed and back seat full of items. We left with over $120 and a small container of leftover items for Goodwill donation. Perhaps my husband knows what he’s doing after all.
After dropping the items at Goodwill, we recycled several huge boxes of plastic and aluminum bottles we’ve been collecting and nabbed another $98.
My husband can now do cartwheels in his empty garage (trust me, he did) and we netted over $200 for less than 4 hours of work.
Beks is a full-time government employee who enjoys blogging late into the night after her four kids have gone to sleep. She’s been married to Chris, her college sweetheart, for 15 years. In 2017, after 3 long years working the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps, they paid off more than $70K and became debt free. When she’s not working or blogging, she’s exploring the great outdoors.
I love the awesomeness of cleaning out crap while earning money at the same time! oooh ahhh!
How awesome is that?! I need to have a garage sale this summer. We have tons of ‘junk’ lol
Somehow I sense a connection with this post and yesterday’s…
:p now that he’s “watching” you gotta make sure you butter him up right? 😛 j/k good job! we have a garage sale next weekend. wish us luck 🙂
I made a killing at my last garage/moving sale by doing exactly what your husband did. I would have rather made $.50 than nothing. I sold a great condition washer and dryer pair for $60. My sister thought I was crazy for that one! But I ended up making over $300 in one morning.
It is so much better to sell “cheap” than have tons left to clean up after! Some say the tax write off for donating as opposed to selling in a garage sale is a greater benefit…but….if you can get motivated to clean out the garage and GET RID OF IT through a garage sale, I say that is worth waaaay more :-)!