Goodness….I am worn out from helping my junk collecting father have his own garage sale.  He has one once a year and we actually have people tell us that they look forward to his sales.  It’s more of a “Mans” sale, not that women don’t like tools, tool boxes, boat motors, power washers, ramps, guns and knives and that kind of stuff.  This year though he actually priced things to get rid of them.  I am always on him about over pricing.  I was proud of him.  He sold almost everything in these pictures, I couldn’t believe it.  It was the most successful sale he has put on.

He might have had two tables left with just some odds and ends, but some of it was the neighbor ladies also.  I advertised on 4 or 5 online classifieds plus my father put an ad in the little local paper.  We had people non stop from 7:45 AM to about 4PM it was crazy.  The work that goes into these sales is ridiculous.  If you anyone has put on a garage sale they know what I am talking about, from cleaning the items up, pricing, organizing, displaying and that’s before the sale even starts.  Once the sailers start running in, it turns from bad to worse, asking 5001 questions, being rude and pushy, on top of watching for the children that are running loose like wild wolves, because their parents are too busy looking for deals.  Then you have the thieves to watch out for, the teams of people that come in just to distract you and try and steal something.  Its total chaos.

One thing I like is when I go to a sale and someone has those old CRT big 500 pound computer monitors for sale anywhere from $5.00 all the way up to the absurd $30-35 dollar range.  I did a test and put my monitor in the free pile, “becasue every successful garage sale needs a free pile”, I put on it the following.  Take me and I will pay “YOU” $1.00 just to see if anyone would take it.  No bites, no one even thought about it.  One of the last buyers of the second day decided he would take it, and I know it’s because my Dad pulled the sticker saying I would pay them to take it.  The psychology of people just amazes me.