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Garage/Yard Sale Season is Upon Us!

by Kevin Humphrey on June 19th, 2006

Garage/Yard Sale Season is Upon Us!For those of us in the more northern latitudes, the joyous season of the garage and yard sale is now well under way. I’ve spent a couple of Saturday mornings in the past month out on the prowl and I’ve managed to score a couple of cool finds thus far.

This past weekend, in the village where I live, we held our annual ‘Trash & Treasure Sale‘. Put on by our local public art gallery and held along the lakeside boardwalk, it’s a chance for vendors and buyers alike to participate in some mass frugality. A nasty weather forecast (that didn’t come true) kept the number of vendors down from previous years, but there was still a good 40 or so booths going with pretty much the rest of the town’s folk wandering around perusing the wares.

My lovely wife and I are going to be spending this coming weekend on the other side of the tables for a change as we participate as vendors in a group yard sale with some friends of ours. We’re about to put our house on the market and a pre-sale purge of our belongings has left us with a sizable amount of stuff to offload.

I have to say that I really prefer the group approach to yard sales, both as a buyer and a seller.

There’s a weblog that I’ve been following for awhile that’s been a lot of help in terms of getting ready for our own sale entitled the Garage Sale Professional (garagesalepro.webgoonies.com). It’s a great resource to take a look through if you’re planning on having a sale of your own soon.

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