I've spent all night preparing for a yard sale, which I can't help but think of as an elaborate, underhanded plot to get strangers to pay for the privilege of taking away my crap. If this actually works I may have to try that Ponzi scheme I've been thinking about.
Of course, while my wife would like to sell anything we haven't actively used in the last 40 minutes, I can't seem to break the sentimental attachment I have to certain very significant objects from my past. Which is my Elton John "Reg Strikes Back" concert T-shirt, my framed "Naked Gun" movie poster and my complete yellowed collection of Marvel Team-Up comic books from 1979-1983 have been moved to an undisclosed location for the duration of the sale.
Anyway, if anyone has any crap-selling suggestions they'd like to share, I'm all ears. But don't say put the stuff up on eBay. I'd have to take all the stuff to the post office, which flies directly in the face of my efforts to have it all leave my house of its own accord, preferably while I'm sleeping.
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except it's not really a funny comment. Sorry to be so literal as to avoid humor. I'll try not to do it any more.
yep. i gotta move soon. I you do figure out how to get it to leave on its own accord, inform me.
why do we seem to accumulate so many things? DOH.
Curious, you wouldn't happened to be married to this lady would you?
http://wonderdawg777.blogspot.com/2005/06/crazy-ebay-mom-and-her-stuff.html
Donate & get a receipt. Done.
K, crap selling suggestions.. put up a table, with stuff. buy some cheap little stickers you can write on, and lable the stuff dirt cheap. people will buy anything.. you might put an ad in the paper.. i know old people go on garage and yard sale runs. just make sure people know your there and your sellin.
we had a yard sale at my aunt's house yesterday and she pulled in over $1,600 !!! HELLO! Talk about a lot of stuff. She had lived in the same house for 60 yrs.
Glad I found your blog.
Members of my family have had pretty good luck selling things on Craigslist.org
Just my two cents!
I do HATE doing rummage sales. I'm putting off doing the same thing as I type.
We're not allowed to have yard/garage sales where I live, which is a master-planned community in Texas. I think it's so potential criminals don't go exploring through the neighborhood. Anyway, twice a year, for $50, you can get 2 booths in a parking tower for a community sale, and people wait in line for hours just to look at what other people are getting rid of. Consequently, the price of things to buy goes way up, so the seller can cover the cost of the booth. To combat having to do this, my area now has two online garage sales. You post all of your stuff online (one of the sites is free, I think the other one is $24.95 per month), and people email you with questions. There is no shipping to pay, in contrast to ebay, and people come to your house, pay you cash, and take the stuff away. As long as enough people look at the site, it's a pretty cool concept.
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