My wife and I are having a big ass garage sale Saturday. Anybody interested in coming, drop me an email. We've got a couple of computers, a couple of stereos, some furniture, a few antiques, some jewelry, dishes, etc. ------------------ So, I took the million dollars and bought a steam shovel...
aw yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!! the next cc.net get together is SATURDAY at Jeff's HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woo hoooooooooooooo rH ------------------ visit: The Psychedelic Groove House of Rockets Basketball Love!
actually I'm not in the market for any big asses! hehehehe rH ------------------ visit: The Psychedelic Groove House of Rockets Basketball Love!
I will come if you fly me down from Dallas, Jeff. ------------------ Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
May I make a friendly suggestion, Jeff? You are self-employed. Realistically, you can hardly expect to recoup more than one tenth of the original purchase price for each of your items that you intend to sell in a garage sale (except for the antiques--if you're in the biz). Take all the prices you've set for each of your items and multiply them times three. This should still be about a third of it's original cost. List those items and their corresponding values on a sheet of paper. Take everything to Goodwill and give it to them. Get the tax recipts they will give you and attach the aforementioned sheet(s) of paper. Deduct this contribution on your 2001 taxes using the values on the sheet. You won't get the cash now, but you'll net basically the same amount. Plus you'll gain a whole weekend to show your wife a good time. Plus, you'll feel good that you were able to help out the needy. Plus you won't have any crap left over. Plus come Sunday, you won't be reciting the following mantra, "never again.....never again....." ------------------ stop posting my damn signature [This message has been edited by Pole (edited May 10, 2001).]
1. At the moment, we are broke, the result of a cancelled show and unexpected expenses, so the tax receipt is nice, but it won't pay the bills. I don't see us tanking it if the garage sale isn't a success, but I'll take what I can get at the moment. 2. My wife and I have a garage sale 4 times per year. When you've been in the antique and vintage jewelry business as long as we have, you find that it is the best way to rid yourself of inventory. 3. Goodwill is NOT the best suggestion for donations. Whatever we have left (minus things we can sell in the paper), we take to the women's shelter except for blankets, tarps, etc, which we take downtown to one of the homeless shelters. 4. We average between $500 and $1200 per garage sale so I never say "never again." 5. Pricing, for much of what we have, is about what we paid since we buy so many things wholesale. In fact, we get quite a number of dealers at our sales so it balances out. 6. The electronics and most of the smaller items usually go to help very needy people since most of the people who drop a quarter here or a dollar there are relatively poor Hispanic people. They ALWAYS come to our sales because they know there is good stuff here at good prices. 7. We tend to combine our sales with other people so we have not just ourselves, but several household's worth of stuff to sell. It always makes for better and easier sales. I appreciate the suggestions, but this is something we enjoy and it does make a difference for us financially. If all we were doing is setting up and selling old clothes and bath towels, I would understand. But, when you have antique clocks, furniture and vintage jewelry, it can sometimes be like doing a small antique show in our driveway. ------------------ I don't get mad. I get stabby.
I've got a Dell 266 (Win 98 - 64MB) with a monitor and Altec Lansing speakers (including subwoofer) and an iMac 333 (purple) with OS X and 64MB of memory. I have one large portable 6 CD/double cassette stereo and one of those AIWA 5-way, multi-disc stereos. ------------------ I don't get mad. I get stabby.
Hey Jeff, If you enjoy garage sales for the community involvement, and atmosphere, then that's great! But some of the antiques you have would probably sell for a higher price on ebay. There are just simply a lot more people looking at the items you have, and typically, it takes less than two weeks to get the money (of course, I'm sure you've tried ebay in the past, and know this already) just curious why you aren't going that route? ------------------ "I never did like that "Dr. Stupid""-Monty Burns
Nope. Those, like books, are better candidates for Ebay. ------------------ I don't get mad. I get stabby.
Well, not everything is going in the garage sale. We've sold some things in the paper and others on Ebay. We have Ebay auctions ongoing in fact. Some of the things in the sale will go in only for the purpose of selling IF we get the price we want. If they don't they'll end up on Ebay or in the paper. ------------------ I don't get mad. I get stabby.
