Comments on: benefit #20 – never have to organize a garage sale

By: minimalist.minimalist.minimalist. « Adventures Wherever He leads.

minimalist.minimalist.minimalist. « Adventures Wherever He leads. — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:32:37 +0000

[...] benefit #20 – never have to organize a garage sale [...]

By: mikeymad

mikeymad — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:24:09 +0000

I agree with Marci… Never held a garage sell. never really want to. Have sold a couple of big items on Craigslist… but all regular household items and clothes I pack up and right to goodwill.. get my Tax receipt and get my money back from Uncle Sam….

Example – If you claim a shirt is worth $10 – how much would you get back at a garage sell? ( I don’t really know – $1?, $.50?) I calculate that I get about 25% back on my deductions from taxes… = $2.50…

By: Marci@OvercomingBusy

Marci@OvercomingBusy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:58:13 +0000

My time spent organizing and having the yard sale is usually worth more than what I would make! No more for me thanks! A couple times a year, I take stuff to Good Will or Salvation Army or a mission thrift store. Ask for a tax deduction receipt. It usually benefits you more than the yard sale.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:09:15 +0000

My husband does not like holding garage sales either. I usually will set something up if I see that my neighbors are having one. Because my Goodwill items usually sit in my basement for a while, it makes it easy to get things together quick. I rarely make a lot of cash except the one year I unloaded all the baby furniture. For me it’s just the thought of getting the stuff out of my house. It just amazes me how I end up with so much stuff when I do not shop a lot to begin with. Maybe what I thought was useful and necessary one year became clutter and unused the next. I am not a big shopper to begin with and try to keep things minimal, but holidays and birthdays tend to wreck my home!

By: becoming minimalist

becoming minimalist — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:47:06 +0000

@christine – i admit that my wife enjoys organizing the garage sales much more than i. it could be a personality thing… i’m still looking forward to the day when we won’t have enough stuff in the basement to pull off a garage sale even if we wanted to.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:36:39 +0000

I completely understand where you’re coming from with the “time wasting” aspect of garage sales. However, I always enjoyed hanging out with the neighbors while they had their sales, chatting with everyone, enjoying being outside.

As far as it being a money-maker? I’d much rather just donate the items to Goodwill!