by Tricia
While going through my son’s toys for our upcoming garage sale, I ended up with a huge container of cheap toys. You know, the ones that you get from parades or from fast food meals. It’s amazing how many you can accumulate through the years.
I have found toys like these for sale or for free at garage sales and usually there is quite a selection by the time I get to a sale (around noon – I’m a late garage-saler). In fact, the last time I had a sale I had a tub of them and was asking five cents each. I still had almost the entire tub left, except for a few furby happy meal toys that two grown-ups started fighting over (that was pretty interesting to see!).
Anyways, I came up with an idea that I think will help us sell the toys since even when you put a “FREE” sign on them they still hang around.
We have some paper lunch bags around and we will fill the paper bags with the toys. They will be little mystery grab bags that my son can help sell. We’ll mark them for a quarter each or 5 for $1.00 and have a box of them by my son’s toys and also a few near where I will be stationed for people to pay.
I think everyone loves a little surprise and for the price they could sell. Thinking of being at a sale with my son, I’d pull a quarter out of my pocket so he could purchase a little surprise bag of goodies.
Next month, after our sale, I’ll report back on here how well it worked. In the meantime, if you have any other suggestions I’d love to hear them. My goal is to get rid of all of these cheap toys and make a little bit of money doing it.
