Garage Sale Treasure Hunter

Organizing garage sale merchandise doesn’t have to be all that complicated.  There are a couple of very easy models that you can follow, or you can use something entirely different that works for you and your situation.  Really, the key is to avoid making your shoppers work to find what they want.  The easier it [...]

People are strange.  Jim Morrison and The Doors  sang that people are strange when you’re a stranger,  and apparently they are pretty strange when you are a friend too sometimes.  Forgive me while I express my frustration for a minute.  Most of my posts on this site have been related to finding garage sale items [...]

I decided to start little experiment.  I want to take all of the money I earned selling garage sale finds over a specific period of time, I’m thinking two months, and invest it in purchasing more inventory to sell.  As I sell the merchandise, I intend to keep on reinvesting in estate sale purchases which [...]

Unimat Tools There are some very devoted craftsmen in the world.  Some work professionally and others keep it to a hobby, but they pretty much all want to have the right tools for whatever job they choose to do. Unimat is a very popular brand on eBay.  There are a variety of Unimat kits available.  [...]

Wow.   It’s a good thing this story didn’t hit right at the holiday season.  It would have been turned into a made for TV movie.   If you think you’ve seen it all, just take a look at the garage sale circuit.  An 80 year old woman in Auburn, California was busted by police [...]

Living in a colder part of the United States, this is definitely the off season for garage sales, yard sales, estate sales, flea markets…all of the good sources for products to sell.  Personally, I’ve still got so much stuff piled up from previous estate purchases that I can’t begin to get it all listed.  If [...]