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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: kslim on May 29, 2014, 10:21:28 AM
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Man they are just the worst. I have all of this crap I don't want anymore and the mouth breathers it brings are hilarious, what say you gE.blog is it better to just donate it/throw it away or make a little extra scratch getting rid of your old crap?
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One of my friends bailed on a weekend of fishing for garage sale weekend one time. I think they made a couple hundred bucks. Better to just donate it all, claim it's worth way more, and enjoy your weekend not dealing with the general public.
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this is something poors do, yes?
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Usually will stop by them in my hood to check out if there are any good finds on tools. Still don't think I've bought anything
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this is something poors do, yes?
im not sure. I mean people keep buying my crap so maybe? Like I said I don't know how to feel about it
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this is something poors do, yes?
No, this is something homeowners do at some point in their lives. Especially if you live in a smaller town that has those white-midwesterny city wide garage sales/town festival combo. I finally participated in my town's sale last fall and it was kinda neat to do just once. I made like $150 off of crap that wasn't even worth my effort of throwing in a dumpster.
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Usually will stop by them in my hood to check out if there are any good finds on tools. Still don't think I've bought anything
sold a Stanley socket set I've never used for 50 bucks. Win win imo
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love them. having/going it doesn't matter. whoever thinks it's no fun to pull crap out of their storage that they haven't used/seen in years and set it on the driveway to pocket $1000 on a saturday while drinking beer is really weird and i probably wouldn't want to drink a beer with them because they are obviously a hoarder
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It's fun if you can work up the motivation to actually do it. Kick in back in the lawn chair and sip some suds and get ready for some dickerin' (new word i learned from the history channel) and get rid of some stuff (the first world's greatest burden)
sell any larger items of real value on craigslist or ebay though
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Just remember blast what doesn't gets sold ends up in the fatty auction
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just joshin with you guys. i grew up rocking garage sales. would impress the crap out of shoppers with my soccer skills in the driveway.
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They're great. My wife loves to shop at them, and while some wives go shopping and spend $200, she'll spend $14.75 on a Saturday.
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Wait until your friend is having a garage sale and just take your crap over there and have them sell it for you. That's what I did.
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Wait until your friend is having a garage sale and just take your crap over there and have them sell it for you. That's what I did.
Somebody did that at my sale one time. I only gave them about 10% of what their crap sold for.
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Binge level 2 before too long I'll just be giving crap away
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Never had one for me. I kind of like interesting and unique stuff flea markets and lower end antique stores sometimes offer so on a level I kind of want to go to garage sales. But then I'm like, anything good will be taken by those weirdos that show up and 7am and it's probably just baby clothes so....nah.
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Made 200 so far am half drunk and sold half our crap we were gonna throw away
So I'm going with good idea, eff the haters
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Craigslist
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Craigslist
Serial killers
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Craigslist
lol nope
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Craigslist
Serial killers
I sold tons of stuff on there before our move (today!) and barely got killed at all
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Yeah, I think selling your junk (pun intended) on Craigslist is usually pretty safe.
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Craigslist
Serial killers
I sold tons of stuff on there before our move (today!) and barely got killed at all
Yet....
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Made 200 so far am half drunk and sold half our crap we were gonna throw away
So I'm going with good idea, eff the haters
wait, are you in real time having a yardsale during business hours on a thursday?
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kslim, there is no way your garage sale patrons are any worse than you are.
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Made 200 so far am half drunk and sold half our crap we were gonna throw away
So I'm going with good idea, eff the haters
wait, are you in real time having a yardsale during business hours on a thursday?
yes i am. My weekend has commenced
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my neighbors across the street and my wife have had garage sales the past two years. i let my wife keep whatever she makes. sometimes i think she buys stuff just to put it in the yearly garage sale. both years i get stuck running the register for twenty minutes and it is absolutely horrible/frightening. i don't like it.
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Rick, did she also buy the register specifically for the garage sales? :lol:
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slim how would you describe the haggling situ? Lots of negotiating or are people paying sticker? My understanding is that when people see rock bottom prices the immediate reaction is to see if they can get it for even less. Have not ever had a garage sale though, so cannot confirm.
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Rick, did she also buy the register specifically for the garage sales? :lol:
by register i just mean small box with money in it. people that i don't know walking around my garage looking at my crap that i don't want while i sit and wait for them to haggle me. almost as bad as wet socks it's just the worst.
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who in the world gets drunk at their own garage sale on a Thursday morning?
Also, craigslist will get you more money, but be more work if you're selling. If you're buying, garage sales are more work/less money. Generally.
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rick, would you take 15 cents for those wet socks?
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Rick, did she also buy the register specifically for the garage sales? :lol:
by register i just mean small box with money in it. people that i don't know walking around my garage looking at my crap that i don't want while i sit and wait for them to haggle me. almost as bad as wet socks it's just the worst.
When I had my garage sale my stuff was marked down so low that not one goddam person haggled with me all morning. They just paid what was marked on the item no questions asked. Some people were even totalling the stuff up for me saying "Well it looks like I owe you $5.75!" I was truly looking forward to mushing some old lady or white trash person for offering me 20 cents on a $1 item or whatever and didn't even get to do that.
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who in the world gets drunk at their own garage sale on a Thursday morning?
Also, craigslist will get you more money, but be more work if you're selling. If you're buying, garage sales are more work/less money. Generally.
its almost 4 dipshit, also shut up
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oh my bad
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I value my time too much to try to sell a few things for a dollar. We only participate when we have two or three large items, then close up shop when those few things are gone.
Also, we only garage sale them when we have already struck out on craigslist.
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I value my time too much to try to sell a few things for a dollar. We only participate when we have two or three large items, then close up shop when those few things are gone.
Also, we only garage sale them when we have already struck out on craigslist.
ive done nothing today but have a few brews watch some non espn sports network and make 250 cool ones off my trash. Sorry but that's not a Waste of time at all in my eyes.
Maybe I'm white trash tho
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I could think of basically infinity things I would rather do than interact with garage sale shoppers on my day off. No judgement.
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You know what garage sales are really good for? Baby clothes. Sending wife and her mom out and they return with like the next 5 years worth of clothes for a kid and only spent something like $30.
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You know what garage sales are really good for? Baby clothes. Sending wife and her mom out and they return with like the next 5 years worth of clothes for a kid and only spent something like $30.
have 2 little ones that have grown out of their clothes. Youre welcome
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You know what garage sales are really good for? Baby clothes. Sending wife and her mom out and they return with like the next 5 years worth of clothes for a kid and only spent something like $30.
have 2 little ones that have grown out of their clothes. Youre welcome
No need now. It's what we did back then.
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You know what garage sales are really good for? Baby clothes. Sending wife and her mom out and they return with like the next 5 years worth of clothes for a kid and only spent something like $30.
have 2 little ones that have grown out of their clothes. Youre welcome
No need now. It's what we did back then.
lol I get it man. I get it. On a serious note I'd have a lot of problems putting my kids in not new clothes, I'm a germaphobe so.
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My two kids sold lemonade at our last garage sale. It was absolutely adorable.
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My two kids sold lemonade at our last garage sale. It was absolutely adorable.
OH YEAH, MAYBE YOU SHOULD BRING THAT UP IN THE LEMONADE THREAD
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Write off the car not the kid
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Made 200 so far am half drunk and sold half our crap we were gonna throw away
So I'm going with good idea, eff the haters
wait, are you in real time having a yardsale during business hours on a thursday?
That's prime garage saling hours (in Wichita, anyway). That's when the serious buyers are out.
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three day sales may not be worth it, just throwing that out there
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Made 200 so far am half drunk and sold half our crap we were gonna throw away
So I'm going with good idea, eff the haters
wait, are you in real time having a yardsale during business hours on a thursday?
That's prime garage saling hours (in Wichita, anyway). That's when the serious buyers are out.
fascinating
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The worst is when someone you know (in my case my boss) invites you to their garage sale and is all "there is tons of good stuff, and great kids clothes", then you show up and it's all just horrible stuff, and the kids clothes are so ugly you would feel bad making your kids wear them, just so awkward
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The worst is when someone you know (in my case my boss) invites you to their garage sale and is all "there is tons of good stuff, and great kids clothes", then you show up and it's all just horrible stuff, and the kids clothes are so ugly you would feel bad making your kids wear them, just so awkward
throw em a couple of bucks and say "these are all that will fit" not telling you what to do but thats what i would do. i cant for the life of me remember the last time i actually went to a garage sale tho
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Have never heard of garage sale invites. WTF?
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Have never heard of garage sale invites. WTF?
everything about that post was a bit off
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Have never heard of garage sale invites. WTF?
everything about that post was a bit off
don't go, gateway to being asked to a male or coed baby shower
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That Evite would have to be pretty carefully worded, imo.
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i tried to give kk a bunch of garage sale kids clothes type stuff the other day but he wasn't going for it.
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The worst is when someone you know (in my case my boss) invites you to their garage sale and is all "there is tons of good stuff, and great kids clothes", then you show up and it's all just horrible stuff, and the kids clothes are so ugly you would feel bad making your kids wear them, just so awkward
throw em a couple of bucks and say "these are all that will fit" not telling you what to do but thats what i would do. i cant for the life of me remember the last time i actually went to a garage sale tho
That's what I did, bought a pair of kids shorts and got out of there
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Have never heard of garage sale invites. WTF?
It wasn't a formal invitation, just a "hey I'm off tomorrow cause I'm having a garage sale. Raquetcat you should stop by, I'll have lots of great kids clothes that'll be great for lil ms. raquetcat!"
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I honestly had no idea that garage sales existed any day but Saturday before this thread.
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I honestly had no idea that garage sales existed any day but Saturday before this thread.
possibly foreshadowing a wichita things merge
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I honestly had no idea that garage sales existed any day but Saturday before this thread.
it's def a thing. we only had ours on friday this year. did not even do saturday. seems weird to me too. :dunno:
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I honestly had no idea that garage sales existed any day but Saturday before this thread.
it's def a thing. we only had ours on friday this year. did not even do saturday. seems weird to me to. :dunno:
i could see you may be reaping more money from the stay at home moms and retirees who maybe try to avoid the weekend bustle of the workaday johns and judys q public
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I honestly had no idea that garage sales existed any day but Saturday before this thread.
it's def a thing. we only had ours on friday this year. did not even do saturday. seems weird to me to. :dunno:
i could see you may be reaping more money from the stay at home moms and retirees who maybe try to avoid the weekend bustle of the workaday johns and judys q public
never done it on a thursday morning until this recent one and it has worked out pretty well so far, lots of nice people and church ladies. now its friday afternoon and some rather sketchy folks have shown up to the party.
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Have never heard of garage sale invites. WTF?
It wasn't a formal invitation, just a "hey I'm off tomorrow cause I'm having a garage sale. Raquetcat you should stop by, I'll have lots of great kids clothes that'll be great for lil ms. raquetcat!"
I would have said "I'd love to stop by, but I'm pretty swamped at work."
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this is possibly the worst thing that hasn't even actually happened yet in my life. i actually just priced something at -5 dollars
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This is in my near future
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What's for neg five?
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Neg Pie
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this is possibly the worst thing that hasn't even actually happened yet in my life. i actually just priced something at -5 dollars
You are going to pay someone 5 dollars to take something? I hope it is really heavy.
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Tobias, I think we need to have a talk. Meet me in the "New to investing" thread.
Gonna win 'em all!
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Ugh. I hate garage sales. Take inventory, price it, load it up, and drive to Goodwill. Get receipt for taxes. The end.
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You are going to pay someone 5 dollars to take something? I hope it is really heavy.
I'm not lifting a stupid old crt tv
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had some old tv stand and TV set up and made a sign - $-5 for TV, $5 for stand+TV, $15 for just the stand and someone bought just the stand without batting an eye or haggling :lol:
the actual setting everything up was predictably awful but the actual sale itself wasn't terrible (smoked meats, got pak'd)
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I think it's fun, except for the getting up early in the morning part