yard sale pricing for toiletries

[disneynewbeemom]

My stockpile of toiletries bought with coupons or ECBs is taking over. I was thinking of selling some items in a yard sale. How much would you price Gillette or Schick razors? mouthwash? toothpaste? eye drops? Has anyone ever sold toiletries in a yard sale before?

 

[dakcp2001]

I sold shampoos, conditioners, soap, shower gel etc. At first we asked 1 buck each and they were flying off the shelf, so we went to 2 bucks each, then 3 bucks each and it still went fast. So honestly I have no idea how much you could get, but people bought all of it. I was surprised. lol.

 

[snowy76]

No experience selling any, but I also had the thought that if you don't mind donating them, you might see if a local women's shelter or someplace similar might take them.

 

[mamaLori05]

I don't know about pricing, but I know personally I would never buy any toiletries at a rummage sale. Just wouldn't know how long they sat on someone else's shelf.

 

[mantaz]

My sister sold some of her stuff last year. It too went flying. Razors roughly $2-3 each with shampoos and deodrants roughly $1-2. I was impressed as I would have trouble buying too from a yard sale. But you can look at stuff and tell if is old or fairly new. I just go shopping in her cabinet and get what I need!

 

[Justsyd2]

I see a lot of this at various sales for $1 each. I personally do not purchase because I do not know how it has been stored, and how long it has been sitting in out the sun. Donating sounds like a great idea since you didn't purchase the items.

 

[hambirg]

I usually sell them at my sales. They go really fast! Toothpaste, deodorant and the cheaper shampoos for $1. More expensive shampoos and body wash for $2. Razors $3. I do Wags and I have so much free contact solution and I don't wear contacts. I'm thinking of putting $3 on them and see how they do. HTH

 

[tadamom]

I would either a say a $1 each or just donate them.

 

[lisaross]

i do toothpaste/deodarant $1.00 each - Razors 3 or 4 each shampoo/conditioner/lotion about 2.00 each

I always sell pretty much all of it..most stuff has expiration dates and i would never sell anything that has already expired i probably make about 300-400 each year at my yard sale in stuff i got for free from shopping cvs/coupons etc.

Good luck!

My stockpile of toiletries bought with coupons or ECBs is taking over. I was thinking of selling some items in a yard sale. How much would you price Gillette or Schick razors? mouthwash? toothpaste? eye drops? Has anyone ever sold toiletries in a yard sale before?

 

[okeydokey]

I don't know about pricing, but I know personally I would never buy any toiletries at a rummage sale. Just wouldn't know how long they sat on someone else's shelf.

Me too.

 

[janey99]

I think I'd rather poke a pencil in my eye than contact solution or eye drops from someone's garage sale - yuk!

Jane

 

[lisaross]

my contact lotion went flying off the shelfs...i sold it for about 3 or 4 bucks - unopened - about 75% off retail price! i had someone come back the following year looking for more but it already sold the prior day...

I think I'd rather poke a pencil in my eye than contact solution or eye drops from someone's garage sale - yuk!

Jane

 

[SaraJayne]

I would never, ever, NEVER buy toiletries from a garage sale. YUCK.

 

[allison443]

I would never, ever, NEVER buy toiletries from a garage sale. YUCK.

I wouldn't either, but I also wouldn't buy a huge stockpile of items that I don't personally use and keep them around my house with the intent of selling them later at a garage sale.
However from what I have read on the cvs threads and other places these items are great sellers at garage sales! I think die hard garage salers understand that these are things the seller got for free or really cheap, and not some stash they found in a basement from ten years ago, kwim?

Personally I would think $1 is a good price for toothpaste and deodorant are these items are usually on sale weekly at shoprite for .99. Certain shampoo brands can be more pricy so probably you could try $2.

Good luck with your sale!

 

[DisnyMama]

I personally would never buy toiletries from a yard or garage sale. With that said a few years ago after my Grandmother passed we were having a yard sale and she had a ton of stocked up packages of toilet paper and adult diapers. Just to see what would happen we put them outside as part of the sale and they sold immediately. We sold the diapers for $1 each and the TP for $.25 per pack. We then brought out her old canned goods and those were scooped up. Sold those for $.10 a can. Like they say....one persons trash is anothers treasure!

 

[Green Tea]

I think I'd rather poke a pencil in my eye than contact solution or eye drops from someone's garage sale - yuk!

Jane

+1

This is one of the strangest things I've ever read. You really sell items like that at a garage sale???

 

[descovy]

My only pet peeve is that when people stockpile goods that they don't use/don't need... it empties out the shelves for when I need contact solution, etc...

Nothing like face-palming it when I walk into a CVS on a Sunday evening to find out some item has been cleaned out by "stockpiliers." Dude! I just wanted one!

I'm all for getting a great deal (couponer myself) but I would never consider buying stuff useless to me, when other people could actually *use* it.

 

[CajunDixie]

I see a lot of this at various sales for $1 each. I personally do not purchase because I do not know how it has been stored, and how long it has been sitting in out the sun. Donating sounds like a great idea since you didn't purchase the items.

Didn't purchase the items?????? Of course they purchased the items. They probably had to pay for a newspaper in order to get the coupons, labored over sale ads and matched up coupons, drove to the store, PURCHASED the items. It's not like they just walked into a store and said give me free stuff. If it was that easy the people in the shelters could just walk into a store and ask for free stuff for themselves.

As for expirations, I know toothepaste has an expiration but I doubt most other non-food items have expirations.

Not only do I see these items sell well at garage sales but also flea markets. The contact solution has a safety seal on the bottle and the box is sealed also.

I would say 50% of the original price would be a good place to start.

 

[CajunDixie]

My only pet peeve is that when people stockpile goods that they don't use/don't need... it empties out the shelves for when I need contact solution, etc...

Nothing like face-palming it when I walk into a CVS on a Sunday evening to find out some item has been cleaned out by "stockpiliers." Dude! I just wanted one!

I'm all for getting a great deal (couponer myself) but I would never consider buying stuff useless to me, when other people could actually *use* it.

I know my CVS' truck doesn't come until after the sales start on Sunday, so sometimes they just haven't received their "sale" stock. Mine has had special sales like when they had buy items XYZ get a free specially sized TP....well guess what no TP in that size in the store. It didn't come in until Tuesday of that week. So part of the problem is CVS itself. Another time the item came in a special end of the aisle hanging display....that was stuffed into the corner of the stock room and never put out until the Wednesday after the sale.

 

[NiftyJ88]

I started couponing last year and had a ton of stuff stocked up by the time our yard sale came around this year. I put stuff out at typically 75% off regular retail prices and sold almost everything!

I do buy things that I don't need, but if a store is going to PAY me to take an item, you better believe I'm going to purchase it. However, I have never cleared a shelf (unless it was the last one or two of something). I also never do more than one transaction per day at the same store.
I have quite a few bottles of Dulcolax (as many of you probably do as well). Last time, CVS paid me $3 to take it. I will then use that $3 to buy something I DO need, like milk.

I also made over $300 selling my stockpile at a yard sale. And, I'll do it again next year. With that being said, I wouldn't buy it at a yard sale for myself (but I don't have to, I have a ton of it at home).