Surprising Places to Find Great Items for Your Next Garage Sale!

(Another assumption-you wish to have a highly profitable garage sale beyond what you will have if you only sell the items that you can find in your own home.  Here are a few ideas for finding terrific items in places outside your home!) 

Become a scavenger ! Find discarded items along the street, go to other garage sales, buy items on sale in stores, go to Salvation Army stores, good will stores, and church rummage sales. (Church rummage sales are terrific. And yes, you can find some items that you can flip into huge profits!) 

You are looking for super bargains so that you can mark them up at a profit at your sale! The more inventory you have, the better your sale will be! You need something for everyone, so don’t be bashful about loading up your tables with a great variety of just about anything! 

Garage Sales – Here is a terrific way to learn what distinguishes a good sale from a poor one. Study other garage sales, (after all, you want to duplicate and even improve upon at what you see at other garage sales!)  Now consider what you can do that might even work better at your next sale. 

Moving Sales – These are great because many things are sold at super bargain prices. When people move, they want to lighten their load and will often give you the very best deals on everything.  At the end of the day of a moving sale, people will almost pay you take the stuff away!  (Trust me, this is the truth!) 

Consider saving boxes of mix-matched wine glasses, and dishes. It creates an eclectic look and people will buy a whole box at a time. People need dishes for camps and for college bound kids. Your box of mixed tableware will be perfect for them. (The kids, my eye, I keep every mis-matched wine glass I find. I have quite a cool looking collection.  Unfortunately, they have a short life span in my house!) 

Estate Sales – These are wonderful places to find just about anything. The prices tend to be a little higher, but the offerings are better quality. There are bargains, too, if you look for them.   

(The “professionals” who run estate sales don’t know everything.  At one estate sale, a person bought a cartoon from one of the early Walt Disney movies.  The person paid a couple of dollars and the cartoon was worth a couple of thousand!)

Buy Wholesale!

You would be amazed at how many people make huge profits by selling items that they bought at wholesale.  Check our Salewhofor finding the best sources.

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Auctions – Auctions are terrific for finding goods for your garage sales. A house auction or an auction house, it doesn’t matter. The treasures are there. Here you will get an idea what someone will pay for particular things. 

Often, people pay more than they should because they let their emotions control their bidding. A wealth of auction knowledge can be found at http://mynas.sitesell.com 

Store Sales – If you see a great sale someplace, why not buy a few items for your next sale. 

Dollar Stores – The dollar store concept is popular from coast to coast and for a good reason. Where else can you find such bargains? Buy a few items for your sale.  I compete with a friend to see how much we can get for an item bought at the dollar store.  I think the best profit was from a small FM radio that sold for about $15.00!  Selling dollar store items on Ebay results in many $9.95 sales!  These items sell at garage sales too.