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Marking Up Garage Sale FIND!

February 21st, 2008 at 05:19 pm



Life's been busy. Went to see my Mom this week about 2 hours away. Collected money from my booth that is in her town and took a couple of boxes full of holiday items out of it and restocked w/one big box full of goodies taken from my other booth nearby me. This gives me a place to rotate items. I also pulled a couple of dolls out of the southern most booth #2 to put in #1 that had never been in booth #1.

Usually I go from booth #1 to booth #2 and then if after a while things don't move I then go ahead and donate them to our local women's shelter. They have a couple of garage sales a year to raise money.

This way I feel as if I've made an honest effort to get $$s for the items, but if they don't sell after a reasonable amount of time I become more comfortable with donating them.

I also won a few items from a local auction house this week, 3 chairs that I plan to resell. Also we went to a local auction the other night. Took FrugalSon and TheGrrl and a single lady from my SS class. We had a nice evening and I won most of the things I bid on which I will resell.

I'm going to include pic in this entry of the very nicely framed Indian painting that I bought at a garage sale late last year. The glass was broken on the picture so I paid $5.00 for it. My husband got the glass replaced for me for FREE. You may not be able to tell from the picture but it is quite large - sofa wall size. We took it over to the booth #1 on Saturday - listed for $250.00. If it doesn't sell at that price w/i a year, then I'll mark it down considerably and see what happens. Wish me luck!

I had to also go back this week to the clinic for a third time this month - now I have a cold and still the virus/stomach flu bug hangs on. GRRR! I'm ready to be well!!

Was told this time that there is no co-pay on my insurance for office visits. Not sure that is true, but it appears to be true for that clinic at least! Okay, I can live with that.

Frustrating the process is that this is the first year Hubster and I have signed up for the HSA at his work, which is supposed to have some kind of card with it, but there have been repeated mixups on the mailouts of the cards. I don't have a card YET, but supposedly there is some method for getting $$'s out refunded. This round of 4 scrips was in the $70 range. OUCH!! But that was a considerable savings off what it would have been w/o the insurance!


CashHappySon gave me 60 cents in dimes to add to the $20 Challenge.

$008.35 balance
+000.60 in dimes
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$008.95 Feb MTD

2008 Challenge Total $040.85
Cumulative Challenge Total $569.46

4 Responses to “Marking Up Garage Sale FIND!”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    I hear you about getting well! I ca'nt seem to get completely better either.
    Good luck on the picture sale! You have inspired me to go downstairs and look for some ebay stuff to sell!

  2. Koppur Says:
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    we're getting ready to move, so I am putting a few things on ebay (I have 5 almost identical black purses...um, hello...FIVE??? Selling 4 and keeping 1!) and the rest is all getting donated to Savers. They are a thrift store and all the proceeds go to the Little Sisters of America Foundation. You're booth-selling makes me wish I had one, though. Mom and I have talked about getting on together, but we never seem to get around to it! Good luck and keep us posted on the painting! Smile

  3. luxlivingfrugalis Says:
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    Feel better boomeyers! Flylady keeps me inspired to get rid of things, however, I can't justify just giving lots of it away without attempting to sell it first. Lots of what I have is antiquish stuff from FIL's estate. I do buy occasionally specifically with resell in mind though! Lots sitting around the foyer area this week - waiting to be priced and resold - from the local auction I've got a fern stand, an Indian blanket, 2 Norman Rockwell prints and a Remington print to be resold, plus from a local auction house that I won online via ebay - a wicker chair and two Windsor chairs to be peddled down the road. Just have to get them priced and over to the booth!

  4. luxlivingfrugalis Says:
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    Good luck on selling your purses - yeah four that are similar probably are a few too many!

    You might try calling a few local antique malls around and see if they have any spaces available. Usually there is a waiting list. You could get on the list and then start gathering ya'lls stuff and pricing it so when they do call you're ready to take some stuff over!

    How soon are you moving?

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