Garage Sale season has started!! :-)

[Bucky]

For those of you who have been on the forum for a while - you know that one of my loves is garage sale season . . . . . . well - garage sale season is here!!  Woohoo . . . I'm so happy - I love garage sale season.  I haven't been to any sales yet - but, I see there are several listed in the local newspaper for this week.

Over the winter months of 2010, I used many of the items I purchased last year during garage sale season (tea-lights, votives, silk flowers, etc.).

I'm looking forward to seeing what I find this year.  Even if I don't buy anything, it's fun to look.

Some of my favorite things to look for are:  books, music, jewelry, decorations (vases, pictures, silk flowers, etc.), furniture and clothes.  I've found some really good bargains over the years.

Anybody else a bargain hunter at a garage sale, tag sale, jumble sale, flea market, "junk" sale or whatever name it goes by in your area??   I just love, love, love 'em!!       

Bucky

[Joe S.]

How can you stand to be in the sun? Do they have moon lite garage sales where you are?

[CAT1962]

Thank God! Pretty sure one half of my garage is hiding a  missing Giraffe from the zoo! 

[hootyhu1]

I love Garage/yard sales!!!! I am always on the hunt for kid's clothes, decorating items, furniture and the like! happy huting!-hootyhu

[Bucky]

Woohoo . . . this morning I hit the garage sale trail and went to two sales.     There's something about this adrenalin rush of getting there and scoping out the entire sale and latching onto your "finds".  Deep sigh . . . boy, I've missed you over the winter months!!   

Today's finds:  pr. of Clarks shoes - looks like they "maybe" were worn once or twice - $4, pr. of American Eagle flat shoes - again, no wear on them - $1.50, new Lancome tote bag - 25c, book - "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff with Your Family", 50c.  Grand total:  $6.25

The annual school sale and a subdivision sale should be coming up soon . . . can't wait!!   

Bucky

[CAT1962]

WOW. Some great buys, Bucky!  I can't wait to have my garage cleaned out! (Poor hubby.)

[quiger]

Hey Bucky, you did good. Great buys and the season is only just beginning.    I stop at them sometimes but there aren't many out here in the boondocks, lol. 

I bet it's nice that the weather is better up there and people can put their sale items out without worrying about them getting buried in snow. Hope all is good.

Hugs,
qt

[jordozmom]

Oh Bucky - this brings back so many great memories for me!   

When I was a kid my mom and her best friend and her daughter - my best friend - would go garage saling together on Saturday mornings and we would come up with so many treasures!  At garage sales you knew you could ask your mom for just about anything and she wouldn't say no - because everything was a quarter or fifty cents!  And if you were really lucky you'd find a garage sale where people were selling donuts and sodas or better yet HOTDOGS - woo-hoo! 

I told my (now ex) husband that we used to get garage sale toys for Christmas (along with some new, of course) and he asked me if it bothered me that we got second-hand toys.  I said, "Heck no!  Because we used to get tons more stuff that way!" I mean we had EVERYTHING!  And we got stuff for every single holiday.  Seriously - even St. Patrick's Day!  Besides, to us it wasn't second-hand toys...it was just...TOYS!!! 

[irish]

I sort of schedule my garage saling for the not so hot days. I like the early spring and Sept-Oct garage sales. Just depends on what is going on in town. When I drive up toe my sons I will stop at garage sales along the way if the weather isn't too hot.

I love garage sales also. I have picked up stainless steel dutch oven for 5$ and a pressure cooker and I love to buy big bags of paper back books. I don't buy clothes that I have to try on. My greatest pride and joy is the wicker wall shelf with 2 shelves. The old, old kind. I paid 1$ for it and brought it home and put many coats and colors of craft paint followed by some varnish and it hangs over the toilet. I hung a green Ivy vine over it and on each shelf there are momentos of each kids wedding. I dried the corsages and sprayed them with hairspray and have other little thingys. It is a family remembrance for me. Maybe I shouldn't have put it over the toilet. lol Oh well, I love it. Irish

[Bucky]

Hi everyone -

Well, this coming Saturday are THREE of my favorite sales!!     The only problem is - they are in three different directions.  Eeny meeny miny moe . . . which one to go to first?   

One sale is a subdivision sale that I love to go too.  One sale is the annual fundraiser at the high school where I have found some good finds in the past.  The other one is one I have gone to in the past - they are moving.  IF you are a diehard garage sale fan - you know the earlier you get there, the good stuff goes quickly.

Decisions, decisions . . . which one do I go to first?!? 

The subdivision sale "usually" has some garages open the day before (which would be tomorrow).  I could go tomorrow and hope some are open and then I could skip this one on Saturday.  Hmmmmmmm . . . . . .

It is not unusual for people holding garage sales to have "early-birds" show up for the sale.  Some, come a day, or hours prior to the start of your sale.  A couple years ago, I had this guy stop at the end of the driveway (we have a long driveway and I had put up a barrier to keep them out until I was ready for the sale - the sale wasn't until the afternoon, after I got off work) - he called the house (must have had a laptop or something and put in our address), asked if he could come check out my sale.  I told him, "no - my sale didn't start until 2:00 p.m." - this was at 7:15 a.m.!!)  It had rained a lot that week and he had pulled over on the side of the road and got stuck!  He would have to call a tow truck to pull him out.  He called again to tell me this - which I replied, "sorry - no".     He wasn't very happy - but, too bad, it's his own fault.  My hours were clearly posted on my signs - in fact, I hadn't EVEN posted the sign at the end of our property yet, he had just followed the signs I had posted along the roadway.

Saturday is the only morning I can sleep in all week . . . hmmmm, do I give up my sleeping in and get up early and hit the garage sale trail, or sleep in?!?   

Anybody want to come with me?  It will be fun!   

Bucky

[Bucky]

OK - looked at the newspaper again this morning and see that one of the sales that is this Saturday is also open TODAY!     For $2.25 I got:  A CD, Unforgettable Love songs of the Sixties; A CD Elvis 30 #1 Hits; and a book, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

I've already listened in the car to the Love songs of the Sixties - it's OK, but will probably go into my own sale next time around.

Went over to the neighborhood where the subdivision sale is tomorrow - only two garages open.     For 50c I got a new greeting card organizer (box w/dividers).  I have one just like this, but the other one is full and I've needed another one. 

On the way back home, saw a couple more sales.  For a $1, I got a necklace.

Total spent today:  $3.75

Lots and lots of baby clothes at the sales.  Once in a great while I will buy some new w/tags on and will re-sell them at my sale.  When our son was little, I loved finding him lots of things at sales.  Most brand new with the tags still on.

I doubt I will venture back out to the subdivision sale tomorrow.  I "might" go to the sale at the school - I haven't made my mind up yet.

Anyone else go to any sales this week/weekend?

Now that I've had my garage sale "fix" for today - guess I better get some housework done before I have to go into work later this afternoon. 

Bucky

[Joe S.]

How much did you spend on gas?

[colleen]

Way 2 go Bucky. I also love yard sales however, since we now live in a 5th wheel I had to put everything in storage soooo...this year I will be having a yard sale at my neices house storage is costly. I hope I do well with sales..

[Katybarstool]

Colleen

What's a fith wheel?

Kathyx

[Pisces24]

When the churches have Rummage Sales here, they usually run Thurs, Friday and Saturday.  Some of them on Saturday have $5 per bag either starting 8am or at 12 noon. I went to one Saturday and it was  a $5 bag day and I made out like a bandit.

I got one of those wolven throws, 2 of those stone type hot plates with the handles on the side, several decorative old time style tins, 2 ceramic bowls "being donated", a couple funny coffee mugs, a couple of those steins w/water that you freeze, plus a 2 pillow shams and a quilt type bed cover.

I am just heading out to a neighborhood one they have twice a year only on a Sunday. Isn't is nice to go to a Sunday sale?