Garage Sale Info.

For those of you who asked, here are the prices I set for the garage sale:

Vaseline lotion: $1
Veet cream: $2
Schick razors: $3
Clearasil facial cleanser: $1
Roc cleanser: $3
Olay cleanser: $4
Shaving gel (all brands): $.50
L'Oreal towelettes: $3
Axe body wash: $2
Carefree pads: $1
Poise pads: $.75
Deodorant (all brands): $1
Visine: $1
Blink gel tears: $1.50
Toothpaste (all brands): $1.50
Dove skinvitalizer: $3
Skinvitalizer refills: $2
Febreze noticeables: $2
Air Wick i-motion: $3
Glade plug-ins: $2.50
Endust: $1
Febreze room spray: $1.50
Salad dressing (all brands): $.50
baby formula: $2
Revitalift eye creme: $5
Pert Plus: $1.25
Aveeno shampoo: $2
Pantene shampoo: $1.50
Suave body wash: $1
Softsoap body wash: $2
What do you think of the prices? Any suggestions you have would be great! The toothpaste didn't go that fast this sale - too high maybe? Also the Axe, febreze spray, endust, vaseline lotion and shampoos flew out the door - should I mark these up?

Garage Sale Results

The garage sale was a HIT! I cannot believe how well it went. I am still shocked. At this time of year my little town has an International Pow Wow - meaning that according to the numbers there were an additional 22,000 people here over the weekend. For some reason it has become a tradition for people to have garage sales while the Pow Wow is in town. And for some reason they are a HUGE success! For example we live south of one particular street where almost every other house has a garage sale. Starting on Thursday of Pow Wow weekend that street becomes completely packed with people walking up & down it trying to find the best deals. This, of course, worked to my complete advantage since I just had to put out two signs directing people to our house.

I didn't really expect almost ALL of my stockpile stuff to sell but it did. When I packed up the stuff at the end of the sale I had enough left to fill ONE plastic tote! That's it!! I made over $300 on the stockpile stuff alone :) And we managed to sell all of our big item stuff that didn't sell at our other garage sale (in May). AND the biggest, best thing is the fact that I had TWO people ask if I would be willing to travel to their cities to teach a couponing class like the one I'll be teaching here at the end of the month. I am SO excited about this!!

Ok, enough about all that - here are some pictures:

These pictures were taken the night before the sale. When the sale ended I MAYBE could have filled the little card table on the left. I think I filled the tables about 3 times. Friday night after I closed up I had to run over to my Mom's and raid her stockpile!

I am now debating about possibly having a couple stockpile sales this winter. I would have to host those in our basement since it's too cold here to even have them in the garage but I think they would be pretty popular. Any suggestions?

BTW, because of the sales from this one garage sale I have now basically been paid over $50 for shopping at CVS since the beginning of the year! That's not even counting the $165 I made at the first garage sale :)

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Garage Sale Time

I'm having a garage sale this weekend - wish me luck! I have made over $175 selling just my stockpile items alone! I cannot believe it's been going that well. I actually have to run over to my Mom & Dad's and take some of her stockpile items. Since it's been going well so far I'm starting to think that maybe I'll try to have some stockpile sales this winter.

Garage Sale Results

I think the garage sale did really well. I was open about 8 hours and made a little over $450 - can't complain about that!! We sold a lot of our bigger items which is great!! The stockpile stuff sold pretty well too. I tried to keep track of what I made by selling those items and it looks like I made about $160. Some items definitely sold better than others. We're planning on having another garage sale towards the end of the summer and I plan on stocking up on certain things.


Such as:
-toothpaste
-shampoo/conditioner
-body wash
-hairspray

I didn't sell any glucose meters or hand soap. I had stocked up on the softsoap refill bottles but I didn't sell a single one.

Here are the prices for some of the items:
-any travel/trial size items I had priced for $.25
-toothpaste - $1 or $1.25
-most shampoo/conditioners were marked at $2
-body wash - $2
-most hairspray was priced at $1.50
-softsoap refills $1.25
-glucose meters $5
-hair color $1.50

I also had a lady ask me if I would be willing to teach a class for her and her friends showing them how to save money while shopping. I gave her one of my cards and hopefully she'll email me about that!

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