Do you sell drinks and/or food at garage sales?

[mlwear]

Seems there are quite a few successful garage sale operators?
Do you stick with your garage sale only or do you try to sell "refreshments"?

 

[glass-slipper]

My DD likes to bake brownies and cookies to sell at yard sales. I always joke that she makes more money than I do! We also sell bottled water and sodas.

 

[Joann]

My daughter and a friend sold coffee and banana cake lastyear for the early birds they did very well!

 

[yeartolate]

If I have a sale on a particularly hot day I will sell bottled waters. I will usually do some juice pouches if I do the water.

On particularly cool days I will sell coffee or hot chocolate.


I have done krispy treats and muffins.


It is more of a draw than a huge moneymaker in and of itself.

 

[MrsPete]

No food for me. It's all I can do to get the stuff out of the house.

 

[imsayin]

My kids have sold drinks & candy. Personally, I wouldn't buy baked goods at a garage sale, but I guess a lot people do.

 

[The Disney Bunch]

I never thought of selling food at my garage sales- good idea - Do you need a permit for that though? Like from the Dept of Health?

 

[KarenAylwood]

I never thought of selling food at my garage sales- good idea - Do you need a permit for that though? Like from the Dept of Health?

Never thought about it that way. I'm guessing you don't because there are bake sales all over the place for school fundraisers, etc. If they don't need one- I don't see why we would


At our (one) garage sale, we sold soda, bottled water, homemade chocolate chip cookies (in 3 to a pack covered w/ saran wrap and tied w/ a ribbon) and muffins made from a mix (wrapped in saran wrap too).

We only bought soda we'd drink incase we had a lot left over- and we did. Sold out of the cookies, sold a few muffins and maybe 5 cans of soda.

 

[beattyfamily]

I can't vote because what we do is make Iced Tea or Lemonaide and give it away for FREE!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

no, because a neighbor of ours already does - and they really do it up: dogs,popcorn, snocones, soda, the works!!!

 

[angel's momma]

No.

We have ours inside at a community room - it's air conditioned & I don't have to worry about rain.

I hang a sign on the door that says No Food, Drink, or Smoking, Please.

 

[we3disneygo]

my dd has a table with muffins and coffee and water. sometimes we do cupcakes too. she always sells out....the next door lady bought out her muffins said she didn't like to bake!

 

[paper1225]

What does everyone think about selling Girl Scout Cookies at our yard sale? We have just scheduled our sale in 4 weeks and as of now still have 100 extra boxes of cookies........does anyone think they will sell, or not? thanks!

 

[momof2cuties]

What does everyone think about selling Girl Scout Cookies at our yard sale? We have just scheduled our sale in 4 weeks and as of now still have 100 extra boxes of cookies........does anyone think they will sell, or not? thanks!

Definately give it a try, especially if the girl scout herself is there selling in uniform.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

my daughter likes to have a kool-aid stand open while I'm doing the yard sale. Last year we did a community yard sale in the front field of the school. She did the kool-aid stand and she sold cups of lemonade for $.25/cup and she made about $45! I think we spent probably about $15 to make everything, but she did really well

 

[Chicago526]

I can't answer the poll, because I've never had a garage sale (I donate to a local shelter instead). But the only time I've seen food/drinks sold at a GS is when it's a huge neighborhood sale with 3 dozen homes all having sales the same weekend. Then you'll see 12 year olds with coolers selling Pepsi for 75 cents. I even once saw a hot dog cart! I've never seen food/drinks for sale at individual sales though.

 

[shades]

Definately give it a try, especially if the girl scout herself is there selling in uniform.

Definitely! We NEVER pass up a girlscout selling cookies. I will turn down a girlscout "mom" in a heartbeat, though.

 

[barbeml]

I always sell at my DB/DSIL's neighborhood sale. It is always a hot day, so we fill big coolers with ice and chill bottled water and my brownies (three flavors: mint, walnut & double chocolate). Those sell like crazy as the day gets warmer.

For the early birds, we sell Starbucks coffee and SIL's incredible scones. Someone always buys baked goods by the dozen.

We make way more money on the refreshments than the merchandise. People now know to come to us for breakfast each year.

 

[disneychrista]

What does everyone think about selling Girl Scout Cookies at our yard sale? We have just scheduled our sale in 4 weeks and as of now still have 100 extra boxes of cookies........does anyone think they will sell, or not? thanks!

I would think they would sell like hot cakes, IF your DD and her troop mates were selling them. Finding GS cookies in after the first week in March around her is a miracle. I could use some more thin mints

 

[mommyoftwinfants]

We are from a little town that dosn't have a snocone stand and my little cousins always sell them at our summer family garage sells and they make a ton of money, some people even come just for the snowcones (because it they know we will have them) and they even buy a thing or two.