Garage sale, yard sale, moving sale, whatever you want to call it, I am on a mission to get some cash for items we will never use again. This can be a tricky proposition in the yard sale arena, as you do not want to price things so high that you are scaring buyers away, yet you do not want to be giving things away and spend more in gas to actually get to the sale then you will be making in profit. I spent about an hour last evening at the old place, assigning masking tape prices to all of the items I will be dragging out front at the plumber’s crack of dawn.
I just hope people come, I do not want to have spent time dragging things out, labeling them, cleaning them and advertising the sale, only to be sitting in my driveway alone with a bunch of useless goods from 8 am to 1 pm. At least I am in a cul-de-sac and somewhat sheltered from widespread embarrassment if that happens to be the case. I always have Craigslist to fall back on, although due to the economy or time of year (not sure which), people on there have been really stingy as of late. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to sell a majority of the items that route in a pre-yard sale ad, but no bites. In fact, the only thing I got a call about today was a piece of computer software; guess no one wants $1 pillows, drills missing batteries or hand held steamers.
I must go wade through my sea of xbox games, umbrellas, lamps, end tables, butterfly chairs, magazines (are people actually even going to pay 10 cents for them??), instructional books and book bags. I will place all the price tags on neatly just so people can tear through the organized piles and walk off without buying anything, I already know how this is going to go. I shall, from this moment on, begin to harness the power of The Secret and think only positive things – heck, maybe someone will even offer to buy the bed that no one seems to want?! Anything is possible, especially when dealing in the currency of junk.
