Day 150: Garage sale...

Garage sale coming up this weekend.  Now who doesn't love a good garage sale?  As a seller it's a chance to clear out space in your house, unloading stuff you'll never use.  As the buyer it's that chance to find a little treasure that you'd otherwise pay a small fortune at a local retail store.  Garage sales aren't just a means of unloading junk or to find inexpensive necessities.  As a seller I think deep down inside we're hoping someone will actually buy this crap so we won't feel so bad for buying it in the first place. 

When it comes to selling stuff, the challenge is trying to figure out what someone is willing to buy.  I mean it's a crap shoot.  Who wouldn't want a ceramic turtle napkin holder?  Right?  That's practically a buried treasure.  Funny how the "strange" seems to sell and the "obvious" doesn't.  We've put out nice appliances, hardly ever used, marked down as much as 90% of what we originally paid and they'll just sit there on the drive way.  But a broken chair or damaged tools will go as if they were made of gold.  Go figure.  My wife bought two large boxes full of small metal tin boxes all decorated with a Christmas theme.  You KNOW those sellers were thinking "wow, can't believe someone bought that crap!" 

As much as I can't stand the hassle of preparing for this shopping bizarre and all the haggling that goes along with trying to sell an old DVD player for $3.00, it is nice to finally get rid of so much junk and to make a modest, little profit.  Of course that profit doesn't last long, not in my household.  "Hey, now that we've got all this space, let's go buy more crap!"  Really, when it comes to garage sales, you really aren't getting rid of anything.  All you're really doing is swapping your crap for someone else's.  It's a vicious circle but, hey, it's keeping the economy alive!

Now, if I can just figure a way to attach a price tag to the little mutts without Julie seeing.  Hmm, maybe I should have her go around town checking out other garage sales and I'll just take care of business here.  ;-)