I LOVE the day after a community garage sale!

[BUNTONGM]

I think i did well this weekend for only using a car, it was a community garage sale yesterday and the day after is always the best, they just leave out on the curb what didnt sell. I was only out for 30 minutes today looking and found the following...

A scrap vaccum cleaner- cord still attached
A working Oreck vaccum cleaner, going to sell on ebay
A car gps with mount and case going to sell on ebay
A kids fender squire guitar decent shape- ebay
A few pieces of aluminum siding
2 old computer monitors
1 desktop computer
a dvd player
A vhs player
A battery jumper box- copper wiring and internal battery
An electric pressure washer- 75 ft copper cable
And some other random wires and pipes



For some its not alot but for me only using a car i think i did pretty well.

anybody else have any good finds this weekend?

[DiamondN]

Nice Score...

[newattitude]

Nice! the first year my town had a community garage sale I went out 3 times the last night of the sale. Then, the next year (and subsequent years), nothing was put out!! Its weird. not sure why but it seems the second year is the year the economy tanked and i figured folks were just thinking, if they couldn't sell it they would just keep it.

[justdon]

In my area I have never found much after a community garage sale.Hope my luck changes in the future.But congrats to you.

[Ace]

Does anyone go around and offer to clean up anything they don't sale and throw out? I think I have seen on here someone that has/had luck doing that. You would end up with a lot of cloths I would imagine.

[acain]

I used to fill my store and auction house with yard sale stuff. Id usually hit about fifty sales on saturdays. Lots of times later in the afternoon folks would sell me everything they had left for five bucks or just give it to me to be done with it. One thing in every yard was always a set of bed rails. Probably could have made a mint just collecting and scrapping those.

[Mechanic688]

Does anyone go around and offer to clean up anything they don't sale and throw out? I think I have seen on here someone that has/had luck doing that. You would end up with a lot of cloths I would imagine.

yea, about 4 years ago my partner and I went around to some of the group yard sales and just passed out cards. On Sunday we started getting calls to haul away. We picked out the really good stuff and put it into the wife's yard sale, took the clothes to a non-profit, and started scrapping the rest. This summer I still got a call or two from some of them for pickup so the repeat "business" is there. You also can claim the tax writeoff on all the donated items, clothes- furniture.

[hobo finds]

Every few years around here a huge neighborhood has a sale on Saturday and the following Monday is the City Bulky item pick up! Needless to say lots of stuff!

[parrothead]

Pretty good for a half an hour. I would have unloaded and went back out.