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Ask and ye shall receive……well you may not get everything you ask for but, there are times when you do ask you do receive.

What I am talking about is when you go to a Garage Sale and you are looking for a certain item and you don’t see it….what do you do.

I ASK if I dont see it.

My certain item is jewelry.

I always see costume jewelry but, I want the real stuff.

After I look around the Garage Sale I will go up to the person having the Sale and ask “do you have any jewelry” and I add on to that “real Jewelry”.

I tell them I’m looking for silver, gold, diamonds and gems stones.

Most of the time they say no, or they say I do have some but didn’t think anyone would buy it at a Garage Sale.

Then there are those who say yes but you wont pay what I want. When they say that i know it is going to be high but, I always ask them to tell me their prices.

You never know, their price might be high but not to high for you.

I have many times that when I ask they will say they do have some good Jewelry and they will go inside and get it.

I have bought gold and diamonds at some Garage Sales.

Once a lady told me that she did have some jewelry from an old boyfriend and she was getting married in a few weeks and didnt want the jewelry in the house.

I ended up buying a gold bracelet and a gold and diamond necklace for $45.00.

At another Garage Sale I bought a 3k gold diamond tennis bracelet for $250.00.

Yes that is alot of money for a Garage Sale but it cost $900.00 and I have been wanting a bracelet like that for a long time.

I went home and got my husband and he went back with me. I wanted  his ok….$250.00 is alot of money for our house hold and I dont spend that much money for jewelry without talking it over with my husband.

I went home with the bracelet and that was my birthday present which was a couple of weeks off.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

I just love picking out my own presents.

So if you don’t see it ask for it. I have ask for different items also and alot of times they will go inside and find what you want.

So go out and ask and see if ye will receive.

The Garage Sale Dive

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Here is a Great tip for your Garage Sales…………

Stay open as long as you can.

Seriously, Most people don’t do this and its costing them money.

One of my pet peeves is I go to a Garage Sale and I as drive up around 10:00am or even 11:00am they are closing up.

REALLY!!!!

I thought the reason to have a Garage Sale was to get rid of items you did not want and to make money.

In order to do that you have to stay out for most of the day.

Say you opened the Sale at 8:00am,stay open to at least 3:00pm or 4:00pm.

I know that you will have times when there is nobody at your Garage Sale and you think “I’m board and no one is coming”.

Well that is not true all the time.

Let me tell you what happen to me this week-end.

There where so many Garage Sales that I could not get to all the ones I wanted to by noon.I went to one sale at 12:30pm and the man that was  having the sale was starting to pack up as I drove up to his Sale.

I then parked the car and then I got out and started to talked to him.I started talking to him about how  one of my pet peeves was people closing up their Garage Sales to soon, ( and you know how people like it when you tell them what to do, ha)

But, to  my surprise  he was really listing to me.

As I was talking to him two more people stopped at his sale and bought something. I bought something for $8.00 from him and I don’t know how much the other people spent.

Well, as the day went on I went home to pick my husband up and we went out to do a few things.

After my husband and I completed our errands I decided to drive by that yard sale from earlier, it was two hours later and what do you know, the man  I was talking to about staying open longer was still open and there was someone at his Sale.

That made me feel good that maybe something I said allowed him to stay open longer and make  more money than he would of have made if  he closed up early like he originally planned.

So, you see there….MEN do Listen!! haha

The Garage Sale Diva

To learn  more about me … Successful Yard Sale

A $500 Day isn’t Bad if I say so Myself…

I had no idea that I would make $545 and I’ll be the first to admit that I was super excited about that amount.

Let me tell you how I did it.

Well, I’m sure you can guess if you are a frequent reader of this blog, and of course I did it with one of my Garage Sales.

I had a Garage Sale on last Friday and made a good amount of sales that day.

Most of the items I sold where items that I previously bought at other Garage Sales. I like to buy items at other sales that allow me to  make a little profit.

Sometimes I  buy the items and sale them for the same price in my sales just so I can have have more items in  my sales. If I know it is a good item and I can resale it,  then I will buy it at  other people’s  Garage Sales in hopes of selling it at mine later.

I will tell you that the dollars  really add up alot faster than you would think.

I only did one  things to get people to come to my Garage sale.

What  I did was to post my sale on Craigslist in my local Garage Sale section. I had people at my sale before I even  put my sign up and I made over $200.00  before 8:00am.

That was a good morning!!

One of the Items  I sold was a Dooney bag that I purchased for  $2  for and I sold it for $20.

I also had some rings and pendents that I bought at other sales as well as  a silver ring with a nice stone in it. The lady that I bought it from said she payed $85 for it in Mexico.

I sold it for $45.00. I made a profit of $25. I sold a pandora bracelet for $275 and I only paid $8 for it at another Garage Sale.

See how the money starts to add up?

Some items you may  only make a few dollars profit but, then on the other hand you could  make as much as  $25 or possible make $267 like I made on the pandora bracelet.How’s that for a return on investment!

I’m going to  be back out this week end at all the Garage Sale I can possibly go to. I want to buy more items so I can resale them at my next Garage Sale or I will put them on craigslist and hopefully have another $500 day.

I challenge you to go out and find items to resale and make you $545.00!!!

The Garage Sale Diva

To learn more about me…. Successful Yard Sale.com

‘Tis the Season to Go to Garage Sales..

Well I went out today and went to 3 garage sales.

I really like going to the sales. I can really get some good buys.

Today I remembered why I wanted to write my book and blog. It all came back as I was following the Garage Sale signs.There was only one sign for this one Garage Sale and if I didn’t know where the street was I would not of been able to go to the sale.

That is why I wrote my book I wanted to help people now how to set up their Garage Sales and give them my advice on what to do and what not to do. Also I wanted to tell all about what you can buy and all of the adventures I have had.

When I got to this Garage Sale that had bad directions to their sale, I told them politely that only having the one sign up might hurt their sale.

You really have to be careful how you approach people and tell them how to run their sale. I do not want to over step my ground but I do want to help them have a good sale.

The lady told me she didnt know much about having Garage Sales, that she was just helping her daughter sale her items since they were moving.

This would be my tip of the day about having a Garage Sale….don’t have one until you know all the ins and outs.Go around to other Garage Sales, look at what they are doing, how they have items set up.

Of cource you can look on the Internet, go to the library, ask one of your friends who has had a sale or goes to Garage Sales.

Dont just set stuff up in your yard and hope alot of people show up.You don’t have to spend alot of money having a sale.

Do spend a little for stickers to price your items and for bright colored poster boards to make your signs.Just make sure you post your signs where us crazy Garage Sale Shoppers can find your house.

I do thank those who many years ago made me mad and even today made me mad because they did not have enough signs up and those who had set their sales up poorly and made mistakes….if it weren’t for their mishaps I would not of written my book and started blogging.

Go have you a good Garage Sale and put up plenty of signs.

The Garage Sale Diva

To find out more about me….Successful Yard Sale

Just Because It’s Small Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Make You Money…

I’m bad sometimes about passing up a Garage Sale because it;ssmall and tooks like there is nothing good at the  Yard Sale. But over the last  20 years or so, I’ve learned not to pass up a Garage Sale just because it looks like there is nothing good or that it is too small.

Let me give you two examples that my husband and I have experienced thinking we are going to  pass up a Sale.

A few years ago my husband and I were out on a Saturday working and my husband spotted a Garage Sale.they just had a few items on the ground and one small card table with a few items  on it.

My husband wanted to stop and I said we don’t have alot of time and besides it does not look like a good Garage Sale.

Well he said to me “you always say never pass up a Garage Sale” I told him to stop and I will get out and will be back in a flash.

I walked up to the Sale and I was right  there was not much of anything. However, before I left  as I always do, I asked if they had any jewelery and the man said I have some earrings.I looked at them and they were nice silver hoops, they had the 925 mark on them which means it is real silver.

The earrings also had stones on them that to me looked like diamonds, I asked him how much are they and he said $1.00.

So, of course I bought them and they turned out to be real diamonds. I sold them for $50.00.

Just this past week-end my husband was coming home from work and said he past a Garage Sale on the way home not to far from where we live.

I wanted to go and he came along just for the ride. As we got closer the traffic was bad and my husband said lets just go eat, he said the Garage Sale wasn’t big and they didn’t seem to have a lot of items for sale.

He just kept saying that it was not a good sale but he was really trying to get me to not go so we could go to dinner.

Anyway, we did go and he was right it was a very small sale, not a lot of items.

There  were several boxes and I looked through them and found a Dooney wristlet. It still had the sticker on it and the paper to register it.

To make a long story short I bought it for $5 and it cost around $55.I also bought a Kitchen Aid chopper for $5. Not to sure how much the chopper cost at the store but, I do know it is alot more than $5.

I had a good day at that Garage Sales. Im glad we did not judge these two Garage Sales by their looks.

Don’t pass up any Garage Sales by their size or looks and maybe you will find a diamond in the rough.

The Garage Sale Diva

To read more about me ….Successful Yard Sale