Garage Sale
On the weekend, we cleared out the house and had a Garage Sale.
What I’ve learnt (there may be some gross generalisations here, but I think I’m about 99% right, as always…).
Garage Sales :
- It is THE best way to get rid of all the crap in your house.
- And a great way to make some cash - $600 for the day.
- 'People' will buy the weirdest shit.
- Most people that come to garage sales are weird.
- If you advertise that it starts at 8am, people will turn up at 6.40am
- When you tell them to “fuck off and come back at 8am”, they will!
- People will haggle over $1.
- I do not give in.
- More Kiwis (New Zealanders) turned up than Aussies.
- Kiwis were charged more!
- Little old ladies were given discounts.
- Weirdest item I tried to sell – Macy Gray CD, without the actual CD in the case… (a) No idea why I would have her crap CD anyway. (b) No it didn’t sell.
- Favourite item I parted with – a key-chain hipflask that holds about 3 shots of whatever booze you like. Sold for $1.
- People get really offended by items they think are too highly priced.
posted by surfercam @ 10:44 am
3 Comments:
The trick with the 6:40am crowd is to not advertise your whole address, just the street name. Put signs up around the suburb the night before; but don't put the sign up outside your house until you are good and ready at 8am.
Mike - I put an ad in the paper saying 8am and didn't put the street signs out until 8am.
But by 8am, we'd had over 100 people stop by!
garage salers get up early, man! What's up with that? I haven't been to one in years... but I'd really like a shiny used hip flask.
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