by Hope
Love what the Flea Market Fangirls have created with these handkerchiefs!
I was recently introduced to a site two cousins started regarding their yard sale finds, failings and reinventions. While the Flea Market Fangirls are just getting started, from their site, I found out about the World’s Longest Yard Sale. Have you heard of it?
Where is the Longest Yard Sale
According to their website, this ginormous yard sale is “NOW 690 MILES! Starts 5 Miles North of Addison, Michigan and ends at Gadsden, Alabama!” That is HUGE!
According to the Fan Girls, vendors can rent a space in various fields along the yard sale route. And you can find everything from the most coveted antique to true junk. (They even have a section on their website for yard sale fails.)
Yard Sale then Resell
Since moving to small town Georgia, I’ve met lots of people who buy and resell. And several BAD readers have encouraged that option as a side gig. I’m starting to look into it.
I am certainly intrigued by the artsy people who re-purpose things, make them beautiful again. Making money doing that, would be great too.
Lots of the local antique shows, farmers markets and even yard sales highlight people’s creative uses for “found” objects. Unfortunately, I do not have the time, the resources or even the talent to do what I see so many others doing.
Free Pastime
I will say this, even if you aren’t in the position to buy anything. Visiting yard sales can be an inexpensive and educational past time.
We have enjoyed the history lessons received on items that we were baffled by. And it’s fun to laugh at some of the crazy stuff people try to sell.
Thusfar, I have not purchased anything. We have just looked and talked about things. But I’m definitely thinking about it.
Oh, and if you are big into doing your own yard sales, here is good article I found on things that sell well at yard sales.
Tell me about your most prized yard sale find. Have you ever re-purposed a yard sale find? I would love to see pictures.
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 5 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
So, what do you think ?