Are yard sales worth the effort?

In My Humble Opinion
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Lots of good advice here, thank you all so much. There is an auction house about 20 miles away. I’m going to give them a call, and see what they say.

Of course my kitty nick-nacks are coming with me. Well, maybe not all of them, the special ones will move.

Harley parts will go on ebay. People in Oz will pay crazy amounts of money for them, and then double that for shipping. I’m serious, I once sold a crazy Aussy a Sprint tank for US 450, and he was so excited that he won it that he paid almost US 300 for shipping. For those of you who can’t want to click on the link, Harley made dirt bikes back in the late 60’s.

Foxy40, I’m not a child of money. I’ve only ever been able to afford 1 plastic colander. Now I’m moving in with a man who has FIVE nesting metal colanders. (OK, I’ll stop mentioning that train wreck now.)

Seriously, from what I’ve read here…a yard sale isn’t for me. I’ve never been good at haggling, and I’m afraid that the first person who wanted to haggle over a 50 cent book would get tossed off my property. If my friends insist that I do a yard sale, I’ll make them do it.

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My kids always make more in brownie sales than I do in merchandise sales at our annual block sale. But I get rid of a lot of stuff.

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Many years ago I helped a girlfriend hold hers. She made about 25 dollars total - but she got rid of a lot of stuff and it was a nice day out and so what the heck, it seemed worth it at the time. She said she hated the thought of just tossing stuff out.