Garage Sale Scores

[budafam]

This morning we walked a block (with 3 kids in tow) to a garage sale where I found tons of Gymboree for my daughter (priced $1-$2 a piece!) and 2 Disney costumes (Nemo & Incredibles) for my son... both for $3 and from the Disney Store... score!

 

[Zhoen]

Congrats!

It's interesting that they're having a yard sale on a Thursday, though...

 

[budafam]

A lot them do the Thursday thing around here... usually Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Sometimes Wednesday night presales.

 

[rszdtrvl]

Weather is too awful around here to expect many sales this weekend. Rain, rain, rain, with a bit of wind added in.

However, I am still flying high on my purchase of a :The North Face" Windwall jacket for my son at a yard sale last week. Price = $10. MINT condition! (Retails for around $130 according to 6pm.com.) It was one thing I was really hoping to find this summer at a yard sale.

 

[budafam]

Isn't that a great feeling? I would've bought so much more but my kids were starting to get antsy and my son ended up having a full blown hissy fit as we were checking out... crying all the way home over a .25 stuffed kitty cat... ugh...

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

Congrats!

It's interesting that they're having a yard sale on a Thursday, though...

Thursday are very popular here also. You can usually sell the most on a Thursday. Sundays are horrible, so mostly TH, FRI & SAT are the days to Garage Sale here. I am having one fri and sat, since DH wanted to mow the grass first lol.

I look like I could open my own store with all of the kids clothes for sale in my garage.

Great finds, too bad you don't live close to me lol.

 

[AmandaRG]

I have to start going to garage sales again! I have scored some awesome stuff in the past!

 

[budafam]

I have a list of 16 sales tomorrow to hit up... I'm just hoping my 2 & 5 year old hold up okay... yikes! We're going to make a halfway break at the library so they have something to look forward to.

 

[sparkyboy]

I have done several sales in the past years starting at 2p.m. on Thursday and closing at 7 or 7:30 p.m. and then all day Friday. Lots of people appreciate the fact that we are open late on week day rather than Saturday. business is generally good both days

 

[mom3sonstt]

My hometown is having "city"-wide yard sales Friday & Saturday this week-end (can it be called a city when the population is under 500). My folks still live there so we have drug a lot of stuff down there. My youngest son will be running it Friday, I will go down a little later on Friday to help him, then Saturday it will be him & my mother running it. I am hoping to visit some of the other ones before I go help him. Unfortunatley we won't have any "big draws". My youngest kid is almost 18 so we don't have baby clothes and toys. It's mostly clothes and knick knacks.

 

[mom3sonstt]

Day one of my son's yard sale and he made about $80. Not too bad considering what we had to offer. I didn't get any big finds, but did pick up a box of Mickey Mouse notecards, and a couple of the little plastic Mickey figures (one a chef, and one a clown) for a total of $2.

 

[budafam]

I found 2 more Disney dresses today (Tiana & Tinkerbell) both for $3 a piece so now we have 4 princess dresses and I only paid $10 total for all 4 of them. I guess that's better than $240 it would've been had I bought them at the Disney store... lol.

I also found 2 costumes. One was a Nemo & one was an Incredible outfit... both I'm sure very expensive and together it only came to $5 I feel like I'm on a Disney roll lately...

 

[starry_solo]

If you ever find an adult costume, that would be great!

 

[mom2minniemouse]

I went for the first time in weeks today... with my 2-year-old DS. He seemed to have a great time until he fell asleep. LOL! I got him some McDonald's as a treat (We hardly ever get fast food.) and now he's happily playing with his new truck. We found him Gus the Talking Garbage Truck http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-90196-Tonka-Chuck-Friends/dp/B000GY0FXW/ref=pd_sxp_f_r. For those of you familiar with the current Tonka toys, Gus is a friend of Chuck's. It was $3, which is more than I usually spend for toys, but DS is alllllllll about the trucks at this age, and this was by far the best truck we came across today.

I also got him a new (still shrink wrapped) Memory game for $1. (Hey, it's even better than on Black Friday!)

For me, I got two things. The first was a brand new cast iron dutch oven (about 4 quarts, I think) for $5! It's not my usual Lodge brand ("Classic" seems to be the brand.), but for $5, I couldn't go wrong.

I'm also excited that I found a Tupperware egg scoop for 50 cents. It's just like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tupperware-NEW-...456?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48364d23f8 For those unfamiliar, this works great at getting Easter eggs out of the cup after they're done sitting in the dye. I have a few already, and I was psyched to find one more. It's an item not sold through the catalog, so yard sales are usually the only places I find them except for the occasional Tupperware party where they have a bunch of gadgets they give out for free.

Other than that, I bought NOTHING. However, I scored a huge Little Tikes toy box for free at the recycling shed at the dump and also got a bunch of fake food. Sweet!