Keerock
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Even if it's only once or twice a year...
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What's Normal? - Do you regularly go to garage/yard sales? (1 Viewer)
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Even if it's only once or twice a year...
McBokonon
Footballguy
Nah. I’m always actually surprised to see people still holding them. I guess if I wanted to try and turn things around on EBay I’d do it, but that’s not for me.
I Definitely don’t host them myself. Anything we don’t want anymore we give away to Goodwill or something - there’s no way we’ll earn enough to make up for losing a weekend to host a garage sale.
I Definitely don’t host them myself. Anything we don’t want anymore we give away to Goodwill or something - there’s no way we’ll earn enough to make up for losing a weekend to host a garage sale.
Keerock
Footballguy
My wife will usually make $500+ and often times over $1K.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
I don`t seek any out but if I am driving by an estate sale I always pull in.
When my daughter bought her first home bought every lawn and garden tools in her garage at estate sales for pennies on the dollar. Picked her up a vita-mix unit still in the box for 40.00.
Last year I walk into one and go in the garage and they had 2 Odyssey putters, a perfect TaylorMade cart bag that looked new with a Calloway Epic Max driver in it. I asked what they wanted for one putter and the lady running the sale said take everything for 50.00.
Sold the driver on Market Place for $150.00, sold one putter for 75.00, kept one putter, kept the bag and sold my old one for 60.00.
When my daughter bought her first home bought every lawn and garden tools in her garage at estate sales for pennies on the dollar. Picked her up a vita-mix unit still in the box for 40.00.
Last year I walk into one and go in the garage and they had 2 Odyssey putters, a perfect TaylorMade cart bag that looked new with a Calloway Epic Max driver in it. I asked what they wanted for one putter and the lady running the sale said take everything for 50.00.
Sold the driver on Market Place for $150.00, sold one putter for 75.00, kept one putter, kept the bag and sold my old one for 60.00.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Estate sales are pretty dope. Being that I live near DC they’re often a lifetimes worth of collecting so you see some incredible stuff in pristine condition.
I don’t don’t do yard sales but mostly because I’m not going out early looking for them.
I don’t don’t do yard sales but mostly because I’m not going out early looking for them.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
And some of the older stuff is better made than the new stuff.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Yes. The answer is always yes.
This drives my wife nuts. When we have a garage sale she hates when I haggle. My response:
"someone is paying us to haul away our junk."
Osaurus
Footballguy
I hold onto it and take it to the dump out of spite.
The Gator
Footballguy
I mentioned this in another thread, but cast iron is usually a steal at these things.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Like Jerry said, "an entire empire based on putting your feet up"
Zow
Footballguy
No, mainly because there are just other things that I would prefer to do with my free time and I usually don't enjoy the act of shopping. For example, I loathe gift shops.
That said, I do see some merit to things like estate sales as oftentimes enough a family is just looking to liquidate and they'll sell a really nice item for a significantly reduced price. For example, I belong to a Scotty Cameron* Facebook group and will commonly see members posting about buying one for like $10 at an estate or garage sale.
*Scotty Cameron is a very top of the line putter brand. New putters usually run now lower than several hundred dollars and the fancier/special edition ones can run multiple thousands of dollars. They also maintain their value really well and the company will refurbish them for you at the right price. They're like the Rolex of putters.
That said, I do see some merit to things like estate sales as oftentimes enough a family is just looking to liquidate and they'll sell a really nice item for a significantly reduced price. For example, I belong to a Scotty Cameron* Facebook group and will commonly see members posting about buying one for like $10 at an estate or garage sale.
*Scotty Cameron is a very top of the line putter brand. New putters usually run now lower than several hundred dollars and the fancier/special edition ones can run multiple thousands of dollars. They also maintain their value really well and the company will refurbish them for you at the right price. They're like the Rolex of putters.
Snoopy
Footballguy
There was one time where a neighbor across the street died and there were big signs and banners saying there was an estate sale. I had never been to one so I went just to see how it was run. I could immediately see the family hired a firm specializing in estate sales, but when I saw what they were selling, it was used stuff at asking prices higher that what I could find new at Target. I never went back to one, but I am seeing in this thread that that was like an exception and estate sales usually have better asking prices.
The Commish
Footballguy
Nope....get way more out of the tax write-off than I'd ever collect from a garage sale....just from the items. Not even considering the time/effort to set things up.
gianmarco
Footballguy
FYP
Dezbelief
Footballguy
When we moved neighborhoods my wife wanted most of the furniture replaced. Somehow we had accumulated six dressers that were wore out and kid damaged through the years. They were junk. I hauled them to my mom's for her neighborhood garage sale. I sold 5 of the 6 for $40 each.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Nope
Drunken knight
Footballguy
No. We have too much stuff as is.
might have to throw an "estate" sale
might have to throw an "estate" sale
belljr
Footballguy
I don't mind a little haggle but its the - pick 3 figures out of the box for a dollar...... will you take 75 cents? come on people - ill light the box on fire first
wlwiles
Footballguy
My M-I-L hosts a spring yard sale every year, and regularly ends up keeping and re-storing half her items at the end of it because "it's worth more than they offered, and somebody will pay it someday". She bought a case of wallpaper 20+ years ago that she never used, and she's determined to get $50 back on it and has turned down offers of $20 multiple times. Can't get it through her head that if someone offers you $20 for old ugly wallpaper rolls, you say yes and thank them for giving you free money...
wlwiles
Footballguy
When I was a kid in the late 80's/early 90's I'd spend half my summer in TN with my grandmother. Friday evenings she'd take the newspaper and look at the garage sales happening the next day and plan our route to hit as many as we possibly could. She rarely ever bought anything worthwhile, but she absolutely loved to go and look because "you never know what you might find". I think I owned every single Hardy Boys hardback novel at one point of my childhood, and they were all bought at various yard sales for $0.25 each by her. I'd take a couple bucks and hunt for Nintendo games that I'd never played.
massraider
Footballguy
They're there for the haggle. Negotiating that quarter has made them Turkish rug traders in a Moroccan bazaar for a brief moment.
Why don't you just play along, Ebenezer?
fantasy stud
Footballguy
I love the idea of them. I always want to become a garage sale/ thrift store regular. Life has just been too busy to make it happen
-OZ-
Footballguy
When the kids were young we’d go fairly often. Wife would get good deals on clothes or toys, the boys would use them for a while and either resell, hand down to a younger brother, or we’d give them away.
Not so much recently but I’ll look when I’m running early Saturday mornings just a glance to see if something grabs my attention.
Not so much recently but I’ll look when I’m running early Saturday mornings just a glance to see if something grabs my attention.
Timmay
Footballguy
I go to maybe 2-3 a year. Most are not worth going to, but if you can find one that is even remotely worth it they can be fun. I always like the ones that are selling their entire DVD collection, you can get some interesting movies for 25 cents - $1. (I know who watches DVD's anymore, but even if you watch it once it is worth the money). 12 years ago when I bought my house, I went to one and bought a refrigerator for $50 to use in my basement for drinks. Same one I have today.
My family held one about 2 years ago, there was 5 of us and each one made at least $500 for one Saturday morning of our time. No chance we were doing multiple days, as that is too much.
My family held one about 2 years ago, there was 5 of us and each one made at least $500 for one Saturday morning of our time. No chance we were doing multiple days, as that is too much.
Fat Nick
Footballguy
I honestly wish I got to them more often. So many times I drive by one and want to stop, but we're always rushing to be somewhere.
My best finds are tools - usually somebody who has old hand tools and doesn't know quality vs. new. Old US Made Craftsman tools, Snap-On, etc. are worth a lot more than you can usually get them for.
I will say that in my area, a lot of the sales I stop at have unrealistic expectations around price. I'm not going to pay you 80% of retail for something you bought 5 years ago and barely used. Some people have the same crap in yard sales every month because they are charging almost retail prices for stuff.
My best finds are tools - usually somebody who has old hand tools and doesn't know quality vs. new. Old US Made Craftsman tools, Snap-On, etc. are worth a lot more than you can usually get them for.
I will say that in my area, a lot of the sales I stop at have unrealistic expectations around price. I'm not going to pay you 80% of retail for something you bought 5 years ago and barely used. Some people have the same crap in yard sales every month because they are charging almost retail prices for stuff.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
We have a neighborhood yard sale every summer that is pretty fun if the weather cooperates. Kids and parents walking around, lots of porch beers and grills going. Its a big social event for us almost like a massive block party that covers the entire neighborhood. We are rarely sellers but my daughter has teamed up with a friend to do a lemonade/cookie stand the past 4-5 years and we have fun with that. Many of the kids' bikes, sports equipment and toys in our neighborhood have been passed along via annual yard sale through multiple families. I bought a Toro lawnmower from a neighbor about 12 years ago and its been fantastic. I add a bit of oil each year, sharpen up the blade a bit and its never failed me.
gruecd
Footballguy
OK, and with all the time that she spends on it, how much is that per hour?
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
If your wife is into yard sales, or your kids like doing lemonade stands, that's a question you never ask.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Garage sales for the most part are just junk people want to get rid of. Estate sales could be a full house of everything you can imagine. Many times like new furniture items.
When you go the last day everything is almost always 50% off. There was one near where I live and they had a like new Weber Spirit grill, it was a smaller one but looked perfect. They were asking 200, New they are about 450. That was too much for an estate sale. I go back the last day about 30 minutes before they close and it is still there. Lady said make an offer. I say 50 bucks, she says take it. Then she says there is a full extra tank in the garage..take that too. I gave it to my daughter.
Bottom line is whatever is left over after these sales is usually donated for free.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I've never been that bad about accumulating stuff.No. We have too much stuff as is.
But lately, I'm just so anti-stuff.
As we get older and start getting that full understanding that every single damn thing that comes into this house will need to be hauled off by somebody. When that "somebody" is usually you, it just makes you look at "stuff" very differently.
It just doesn't matter how good of deal it is when it means years of cluttering your space up until you find the time to haul it off.
And then when we really start to get older, and realize the person hauling this crap out of your house won't be you
pollardsvision
Footballguy
I'm not much for yard sales, but I fully support any excuse to have some cold pops with neighbors while the kids have fun.
And certainly support a deal on a good lawn mower.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
Mrs and i are about to celebrate our 29th in Sept. With the kid the stuff just grows. we both would like to consolidate, but time is sparseI've never been that bad about accumulating stuff.No. We have too much stuff as is.
But lately, I'm just so anti-stuff.
As we get older and start getting that full understanding that every single damn thing that comes into this house will need to be hauled off by somebody. When that "somebody" is usually you, it just makes you look at "stuff" very differently.
It just doesn't matter how good of deal it is when it means years of cluttering your space up until you find the time to haul it off.
And then when we really start to get older, and realize the person hauling this crap out of your house won't be you
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
I've never been that bad about accumulating stuff.No. We have too much stuff as is.
But lately, I'm just so anti-stuff.
As we get older and start getting that full understanding that every single damn thing that comes into this house will need to be hauled off by somebody. When that "somebody" is usually you, it just makes you look at "stuff" very differently.
It just doesn't matter how good of deal it is when it means years of cluttering your space up until you find the time to haul it off.
And then when we really start to get older, and realize the person hauling this crap out of your house won't be you
So correct. I go into my garage and think someday a person will be saying. One dollar a can for spray paint and weed killer, 50 cents for screwdrivers, all single tools one dollar. Rakes, shovels and other garden tools 5 dollars each. Half used bags of grass seed 3 dollars. :(
Dezbelief
Footballguy
I grabbed all the leftover tools from my dad and father-in-law after the rest of the family got what they wanted. I have so many screwdrivers I had to separate the Phillips and flatheads. It was too much weight for one toolbox drawer.I've never been that bad about accumulating stuff.No. We have too much stuff as is.
But lately, I'm just so anti-stuff.
As we get older and start getting that full understanding that every single damn thing that comes into this house will need to be hauled off by somebody. When that "somebody" is usually you, it just makes you look at "stuff" very differently.
It just doesn't matter how good of deal it is when it means years of cluttering your space up until you find the time to haul it off.
And then when we really start to get older, and realize the person hauling this crap out of your house won't be you
So correct. I go into my garage and think someday a person will be saying. One dollar a can for spray paint and weed killer, 50 cents for screwdrivers, all single tools one dollar. Rakes, shovels and other garden tools 5 dollars each. Half used bags of grass seed 3 dollars. :(
-OZ-
Footballguy
Probably less than we spend on our expensive hobbies
gruecd
Footballguy
Are you referencing the bourbon or the running?Probably less than we spend on our expensive hobbies
coopersdad
Footballguy
Occasionally will stop by one if I'm driving by and something catches my eye. We always have one when we move (4 times in the last 30 years). Goal is to make enough $ to pay for the Uhaul and the movers we hire to load/unload (last time I hired my teenage son and friends).
It's amazing how much stuff you can accumulate that you DO NOT NEED or HAVE NOT USED since the last garage sale, but you didn't get rid of, nor do you get rid if it this time, because "I may need it" or "I may wear it".
I know of 1 box that has my high school mementos in it..........moved it from Houston, to Wichita, to Fort Worth, to Cleburne, and then to Cleburne again. Box has not been opened since 1995 and it is in my attic right now.
It's amazing how much stuff you can accumulate that you DO NOT NEED or HAVE NOT USED since the last garage sale, but you didn't get rid of, nor do you get rid if it this time, because "I may need it" or "I may wear it".
I know of 1 box that has my high school mementos in it..........moved it from Houston, to Wichita, to Fort Worth, to Cleburne, and then to Cleburne again. Box has not been opened since 1995 and it is in my attic right now.
This is strictly based on what your purpose of the garage sale is. For those that have a garage sale every year then "giving" stuff away isn't likely to happen. But if you are moving or trying to get rid of stuff from an inheritance to sell the house it makes no sense to hold out for $2 more. Just get rid of it.
Although there was a time when we were selling one of those candles in a large jar. Probably a $25 candle. It was lit once just to see what it smelled like. We had it priced at $1. The lady offered us 50 cents. I said no. We don't have change and I don't want change. It's a $1. She said, but it's been used. I said, one time just to smell the scent. She held on to the candle and walked around picking out other stuff. She came back and offered $6.50 for the candle and other stuff. I said "no $7. I don't have/want change." She continued to walk around. She tried again to haggle down to 50 cents and I denied again. She finally gave up and put it down and left. At that point I almost increased it to $2 just to piss her off more. Those kind of things just irk me. Come on lady you are getting a $25 candle for $1. Just take the great deal.
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