Community Chat

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@kaydee50 wrote:

@ScrapHappy  IMO, garage sales are a waste of time and energy.  Did one once and that was enough.

Have you checked Replacements.com?  I had good results with them.

Good luck!

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@kaydee50   @ScrapHappy 

ITA, check them out.  Someone, somewhere, might be hoping to complete a set that has missing pieces due to breakage.  

[ninjawife]

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@cjm61 wrote:

@ninjawife , why do you think an area is too upscale for a garage sale? The homes in our area go for up to 2 million and many have garage sales. I know people that purposely go to the higher end homes where you can usually get some quality items for cheap. 

@cjm61 My current neighborhood has never hosted a community yard sale but there have been a few estate sales.  I don't have enough to sell to hold my own yard sale which is why I miss the community yard sales. 

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[cjm61]

@ninjawife Yes, it's very helpful to live where we have Community Garage Sales. They do the advertising and put several very large banners throughout the neighborhood. 

[Onslow1111]

The HOA where we live now (north San Diego County) does not allow garage sales. They don't allow unpermitted parking, anyway. They don't even allow parking in your own driveway without a permit, which you pay for annually. I know, I was stupid not to read the rules before buying, but it is a great area and we loved the yard for our dogs, and a yard is rare here.

[Desertdi]

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@Onslow1111 wrote:

The HOA where we live now (north San Diego County) does not allow garage sales. They don't allow unpermitted parking, anyway. They don't even allow parking in your own driveway without a permit, which you pay for annually. I know, I was stupid not to read the rules before buying, but it is a great area and we loved the yard for our dogs, and a yard is rare here.

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@Onslow1111 

Same thing with my HOA...some "strange" rules...and they are located in another STATE,  probably don't even know what the weather is here.      di

[cjm61]

Hi @Onslow1111 , I too live in North SD. Where abouts do you live? There are many areas here with lots of land. I could not live where you couldn't even park in your driveway without a permit. 

When we first purchased our home the HOA said no parking on the driveway and if you did, it gave them a right to look in your garage to see why you don't park in it. Needless to say, the courts would not allow this regulation. I do see areas you can't park on the street though. My daughter was looking to buy a house in one of these areas and when I told her the parking situation, she refused to buy there. 

[faeriemoon]

I am definitely a person who loves to get rid of clutter.  However, when it comes to china, and all the hoopla regarding the claims that "no one wants it", it is still something I would hang on to.  I believe people are going to want it again, and when that happens all those who sold "a service for twelve and all the serving pieces" for fifty bucks, are going to regret that decision. Truthfully, it takes up about two storage boxes.  It's worth hanging on to.

[sandy53]

OP--  I think your father's advice is very true-- If you have to think that much about doing something, it may not be the right thing to do.  Such good advice.  When you know, you know.  No reason to ponder when it's right.  We should not be hasty, but we need to be decisive.  

Thanks for updating us on what you decided about the china.  Why not use it?  I have a china setting on my dishwasher that works great.  

[deeva]

I think you made the right decision. 

I don't have the patience for a garage sale. Plus you need more than one person helping during the sale because of thieves. And those folks who want everything practically free. 

[Maizie Green]

My mom died last fall, and we sold her house in January. When we were packing it up, we literally posted in her neighborhood's Facebook group that we were having an "estate sale." We also stuck a sign in the snow outside by the road that said 'estate sale'.

We made $7,000 in three days, and people were looking for more, but we had already started packing, and the stuff was already in storage.

The rest of the stuff we decided to market as an estate sale when my sister's neighborhood held its garage sale two weeks ago. I took an ad out for $100 on the estate sales.net and joined several Facebook garage sale groups.

I marketed it as a sneak peek shopping on Wednesday evening from 3 to 8. On opening day, it was pouring rain. My sisters wanted to cancel it, and I kept telling them we couldn't because it was marketed and people were going to show up. I cannot begin to tell you how overwhelmed we were with the crowd. 

There were times we had 25 to 35 people standing in the rain waiting to pay. We had set up tents to protect the stuff, but everything was soaked, and nobody cared. 

The sale ran from Wednesday evening to Saturday afternoon, and we made $12,000. We had people come back 3, 4, and 5 times. The last day we had someone come through that asked if we were interested in a buyout, and at this time we were done, so we said $1000 takes it all, and they snapped it up like nobody's business. 

two weeks later I'm still getting messages on Facebook asking if I have this that or the other thing left.

We had so many people tell us they saw one on the ad on the estate sales.net and into the Facebook ad. Never underestimate the power of Facebook. It is still very very popular. I've had people that I work with. Tell me that my ad came across their Facebook feed