Garage Sale Season Is Coming

I love going to garage and yard sales!!! A couple months ago when I found out I was pregnant I started hitting them and I got a baby swing in perfect condition for $4 and a high chair for $2!!! I used to have them alot but where I live now in condominiums, they do not allow it.

I love going yardsaling. I get all kinds of great things. I have bought clothes, shoes and toys. I have even bought wiskey at a sale once. I love to save money any this is a great way to do so. I also have about two to three sales a year myself. I love to save money when I go shopping. My husband says I will buy anything as long as it is onsale or free. I have to admit that I love rebates and coupons. I do a great job shopping at CVS, Riteaid, and walgreens. I take all my over stock in shampoo, conditioners, toothpaste, toothbrushes and much more. I do very well when I have my sale. I pass on the bargains to my neighbors. Last summer I bought six pairs of jeans for .50 cents each. I do not have to buy pants for a while. They are jeans that are in style as well that made the deal even better. Happy yardsaling to you.

I love garage sales, and I love having them too! We buy abandoned self-storage units at auction, and so I have several during the summer. I even have people who come by every time just to see what's "new." I haven't been to as many since I started doing this, since I can just pick and choose what I want from the storage unit! I have given our own kids whatever they needed when their babies arrived, kept some nice furniture for my own house, lots of playclothes for the grandkids. I get a lot of toys, too, but don't let the grandkids have very many of them because they have enough stuff they don't play with already! Whatever doesn't sell after a few tries gets taken to the local thrift shop, or I put it on the curb and someone hauls it away. It's amazing what people won't give you a nickel for but will haul away if it's free!

I go to garage sales with my grandma. Its a memory I will never forget. I hope to beable to one day do this with my grandkids. I don't have any though. I really need to. I have TONS of baby cloths I need to get rid of them.

Hehehe. I LOVE yard sales! My kids have been known to cover my eyes as we pass them, which was not too safe when I was the one driving! We were visiting my brother who was still in California one year, parking wherever we could get away with it and sleeping in the motor home. The town where my brother lived had a homeless shelter where people donated their unwanted stuff. These guys didn't have use for most of it so they put it on tables out in front for anybody to help themselves to. Man it was like being in hog heaven! One of my favorite finds there was a beautifully decorated cow collar! I still have it today, I'm just waiting to get a pet cow to put it on. Or maybe it would fit a goat, cause I'd rather have a goat than a cow. Then we went up to Oregon to see my dad in our motor home STUFFED full of the goodies we had accumulated, but my sister was back on the East coast with her new baby and wanted us to come and meet her before she went back to Hawaii. We wanted to sell the motor home and speed back in our little car, so we started shipping back all the stuff we wanted to keep and sold off the rest. We were parked on a piece of property my dad owned, right on the highway, so we put out a sign that said 'moving sale'. Hardly anybody stopped until, taking the advice of a new friend, we changed the sign to read 'Estate Sale'. Hehehehe, it was hilarious... people started flocking to our motor home parked by the side of the road with the 'Estate Sale' sign in front of it!!! I am including a photo of my most wonderful hammock that I got at a yard sale for 4 bucks.

I once read something about American's garage sell. I think it is very interesting. In university of China, we ususlly sell our old groceried in the campus. It is very interesting and we can make good use of our spare things.

i love garage sales and we generally have about 2 or 3 per year at different locations...it is a good way to get rid of things and the money we make we use for a family fun day during the summer!

Garage sales are great. Too bad that I live in a country where people do not have garage sales. That is something I really miss here. I once bought an U.S. soldiers foot locker at a garage sale in the States that has accompanied me most of my life. It is a very handy toy. Happy mylotting!