Is selling in yard/garage sales really worth the hassle?

I have never had a yard sale or put my stuff in someone else's yard sale. I think that if you have some higher prices stuff to sell along with the clothes and things it could be worth it.

I had one yard sale before and it was pretty cool. I like getting rid of old stuff so if there is a chance people will buy it then I think the work is worth it. Even if I don't make that much. I will always try to sell something on ebay before I take it to the Goodwill.

I very rarely bother with yard sales any more. You are absolutely correct. For the time and effort you will never recoup what you think you should have. There are alternatives. You mentioned one, Ebay auctions. Of course you have to make up your auction, monitor it and stay on top in addition to having one for each item. The other alternative that I find most rewarding is donating to charities. My favorite is an animal sanctuary who uses the funds they get from selling items donated to their organization. I am an animal lover and I see my donations being put to a good cause which I can support. I also am able to write off all of my donations as tax write offs come year end.

No, I do not feel like it is worth all the effort I see people going to for garage sales. I like to go to them, but I would never have one myself. I prefer to give stuff to local charities and get the tax credit instead. Recently, my son's school announced that they would be having a rummage sale and if you wanted to participate then you need to rent a park spot at the location. I actually considered doing this one. First, it was a good cause. We could keep anything we earned and they are doing all the advertising for it. The only reason I decided against it is that we have too many conflicts on that day. Maybe next year.

...did you recently sell a dvd on ebay? If not, their user name was a lot like your mylot user name! It was a dvd about Jesus.. and the debate concerning him.. It's likely not? And that's ok! But if so, I guess it is still rather a small world at times..

It is alot of work, and unless you have alot of things to sell and some higher priced items, I don't think it is worth it. I set the clothes out on tables and make them .25 a piece unless they are marked differently, which very few are marked. We live on a main street with lots of traffic, so we have good luck.

Having a yard sale is just not worth it to me as
you make very little and spend a lotof time doing
that too. I would much rather spend that time going
to a yard sale and picking something I wanted for
little or nothing. lol

I think we all feel that way after having a garage sale. LOL! We give really good deals real cheap just because we don't want to deal with the leftovers later. Online is a good thing. I live in Denver. We have one of the largest flea markets here. I used to go everyweekend. Sometimes you make money, sometimes you don't. I no longer have a car. So i have done a little online. I have a room full of stuff to get rid of.

I remember having a couple of sales years ago and I never made much at all. My sister has had them and made hundreds of dollars. I can remember going to one last year and I spent about $50 as did my daughter and mostly all on baby clothes and we barely made a dent in what the woman had. She had other things for sale as well but she had wonderful prices and the things were like new. She had a huge yard full of things and she had to have made a lot of money in the days that she was selling. I was wondering where all the things came from.

I have also seen those houses where the women drag the same things out week after week. I can't imagine that they have nothing better to do and it seems that people have caught on the fact that they have been there week after week. Some of the things that they have out are old, too. I have found many different things at the sales that I have gone to and have been lucky already this year and the summer has bearly begun. My sister and I like to go and shop for our grandchildren. My daughter was just telling me that she is having one in a few weeks and I just took some things to a thrift shop a couple weeks ago that I have had at my apartment for a year since I was tired of looking at them in the laundry room!!

I've never had a yard sale of my own, but my husband says I have to before we move again. He says we have way too much stuff, and he's probably right. I know when we moved last summer, it was a mandatory local move (They were rebuilding the houses in the area on base that we lived in), so the Air Force paid for us to move our stuff, no matter how much it weighed. It weighed approximately twice what they would have paid for if we were moving across country. I guess that means that I have to get rid of half of my stuff before we get stationed somewhere else!

Anyway, when I was younger, I helped my best friend with her family's yard sale every year. We usually did pretty good. We had it open for about 5-6 hours a day, two days, and probably averaged around $500 or so each year. It really varied, though, depending on what all we had for sale. The setting up wasn't too bad. We usually put stuff together in areas, and just labeled that everything on this table was $5 each, everything in this box is $1, etc.