What's Normal? - Do you regularly go to garage/yard sales? (1 Viewer)

[Gally]

We are getting ready for a garage sale. We inherited a house (and all the stuff in it) from a friend that had no family. My wife helped him out for the past 3 years taking him grocery shopping, to the doctor, etc as he had stopped driving. He had no family so he ended up doing a trust and leaving everything to us. The house needs a lot of work so we decided to just sell it as is and be done with it. Now we have to get rid of all his stuff. This guy was a valve shop technician. He collected tools. He has so many tools that I have taken everything I could ever want and there is still a ton left over. Some tools I don't even know what they could be used for. I am looking stuff up on line to price them for the sale and I expect a lot of action on people trying to low ball me. It should be interesting. The sale is next weekend. I will come back with an update on the shenanigans I am sure to see.

 

[TripleThreat]

i'd go to an estate sale, since I've never been. garage sale... no tyvm.

 

[AAABatteries]

i'd go to an estate sale, since I've never been. garage sale... no tyvm.

I got a great deal on an Italian slate pool table at an estate sale. Had to pay movers to move and set it up but got like a 3,500 table plus awesome table and chairs to go with it for like $600 or $700 All-in was 1k. When we moved last I had to get rid of it which sucked but didn’t have a place for it. You can get some great deals at some estate sales.

 

[Keerock]

We are getting ready for a garage sale. We inherited a house (and all the stuff in it) from a friend that had no family. My wife helped him out for the past 3 years taking him grocery shopping, to the doctor, etc as he had stopped driving. He had no family so he ended up doing a trust and leaving everything to us. The house needs a lot of work so we decided to just sell it as is and be done with it. Now we have to get rid of all his stuff. This guy was a valve shop technician. He collected tools. He has so many tools that I have taken everything I could ever want and there is still a ton left over. Some tools I don't even know what they could be used for. I am looking stuff up on line to price them for the sale and I expect a lot of action on people trying to low ball me. It should be interesting. The sale is next weekend. I will come back with an update on the shenanigans I am sure to see.

Where are you located?

 

[massraider]

i'd go to an estate sale, since I've never been. garage sale... no tyvm.

People yard sales are calling them estate sales now.

Would you take a quarter for that ottoman?

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."

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.

This is why I could never. At the 2nd trip I would have screamed at her to GET OFF MY PROPERTY

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

We are getting ready for a garage sale. We inherited a house (and all the stuff in it) from a friend that had no family. My wife helped him out for the past 3 years taking him grocery shopping, to the doctor, etc as he had stopped driving. He had no family so he ended up doing a trust and leaving everything to us. The house needs a lot of work so we decided to just sell it as is and be done with it. Now we have to get rid of all his stuff. This guy was a valve shop technician. He collected tools. He has so many tools that I have taken everything I could ever want and there is still a ton left over. Some tools I don't even know what they could be used for. I am looking stuff up on line to price them for the sale and I expect a lot of action on people trying to low ball me. It should be interesting. The sale is next weekend. I will come back with an update on the shenanigans I am sure to see.

Whatcha got!?!?! I love me some really old tools.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Would you take a quarter for that ottoman?

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."

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.

We once had a guy try and steal kids clothes. (Priced at $1 ea.)

 

[Gally]

Whatcha got!?!?! I love me some really old tools.

One of things he had was a gas powered drill. Strangest thing I have ever seen. We sold that awhile ago. Things like that we list on individual sale sites because they are so unique and not a garage sale. You just aren't going to get a fraction of the value for something like that at a garage sale.

 

[ghostguy123]

Yep.
Lot of good kid stuff like clothes, toys,..........all at like 5-10% regular cost, and get just as much use out of them.
Also some tools, and things for my daughter's new place when she moved out.

 

[shuke]

We are getting ready for a garage sale. We inherited a house (and all the stuff in it) from a friend that had no family. My wife helped him out for the past 3 years taking him grocery shopping, to the doctor, etc as he had stopped driving. He had no family so he ended up doing a trust and leaving everything to us. The house needs a lot of work so we decided to just sell it as is and be done with it. Now we have to get rid of all his stuff. This guy was a valve shop technician. He collected tools. He has so many tools that I have taken everything I could ever want and there is still a ton left over. Some tools I don't even know what they could be used for. I am looking stuff up on line to price them for the sale and I expect a lot of action on people trying to low ball me. It should be interesting. The sale is next weekend. I will come back with an update on the shenanigans I am sure to see.

Have you thought about hiring an auction company to take care of this for you? No way you're going to sell everything at a garage sale.

 

[Orange&Blue]

Oh hell yeah.

A person should never ever have to buy a brand new shovel, rake, or any other yard implement. Estate sales are a gold mine for this type of stuff.

I mentioned this in another thread, but cast iron is usually a steal at these things.

make sure and test it for lead.

 

[Ilov80s]

Pretty much never but not really because it’s other peoples garbage- I just don’t really like to shop unless I know exactly what I am looking for

 

[Da Guru]

Pretty much never but not really because it’s other peoples garbage- I just don’t really like to shop unless I know exactly what I am looking for

Join estate sales.net and they send you a list of sales near your area. They post hundreds of pictures of what is being sold at each home. Some high end stuff from homes, and a bunch of junk from other homes. Last week I went to one in Plymouth by Ridge Road. Former restaurant owner. They have hundreds of bottles of booze and wine unopened. I looked up the wine and most of the bottles were 25-40 dollar bottles, guy working said 5 bucks a bottle. Bought 12 bottles of Merlot, Shiraz and Chardonay , also I say what to you want for the booze? 5 bucks a bottle. Bought 2 1.5 liter bottles of Tequilia that retailed for 45.00 a bottle. A bottle of Elijah Craig bourbon for 5 bucks. All sealed. Bought 3 large bottles of Jose Cuervo mix for 2 bucks a bottle. Guy had cases of mixers never opened.

Today I am going to one near me because it showed a bunch of golf equipment I want to check out. Will get back on this one.

 

[Gally]

We are getting ready for a garage sale. We inherited a house (and all the stuff in it) from a friend that had no family. My wife helped him out for the past 3 years taking him grocery shopping, to the doctor, etc as he had stopped driving. He had no family so he ended up doing a trust and leaving everything to us. The house needs a lot of work so we decided to just sell it as is and be done with it. Now we have to get rid of all his stuff. This guy was a valve shop technician. He collected tools. He has so many tools that I have taken everything I could ever want and there is still a ton left over. Some tools I don't even know what they could be used for. I am looking stuff up on line to price them for the sale and I expect a lot of action on people trying to low ball me. It should be interesting. The sale is next weekend. I will come back with an update on the shenanigans I am sure to see.

Have you thought about hiring an auction company to take care of this for you? No way you're going to sell everything at a garage sale.

We have already sold a bunch of the larger furniture items through FB type listings. I think the tools will go pretty easily and I am not looking to make money on them (just not give them away). Everything else that doesn't sell we will just haul off to the dump. His stuff really isn't worth the effort to do an auction or estate sale kind of thing.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

Voted no solely because of the word regularly. I’m a vintage watch collector so I enjoy going to flea markets, yard sales, estate sales, thrift stores when I have free time and no plans. The issue is that I don’t regularly have free time with no plans to where I can do it. I’d say I go to these types of things 3-4x a year

 

[rockaction]

And then when we really start to get older, and realize the person hauling this crap out of your house won't be you

Mom, is that you? I knew you wouldn't stick me with the garage the way it is now. Thank you.