Any other garage sale addicts here?

[CornField]

I'll confess... I *adore* garage sales! Nothing beats a pair of jeans for a quarter, a shirt for a dime -- except maybe books for a nickle and furniture for five bucks.

I've noticed that I typically find the best bargains in middle class neighborhoods (not the poorest, not the wealthiest). Is this a fairly true assessment where you live?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. You betcha...so much so that I've got enough stuff to have a hell

of a garage sale someday. ;)

Seriously, I live by Grosse Pointe and usually find the best bargains there. They are so affluent they have no idea what they paid for real wood furniture and antiques, so they have no idea what to price it for. I got a wonderful oak sideboard for $45. :hi:

[Sabriel]

2. Loooooove them!

You wouldn't believe the kids' clothes people sell for cents on the dollar. When we lived in Madison (WI), it was a weekly thing that the whole family looked forward to.

[CornField]

4. I don't let the family attend -- LOL!

I'm home all the time (I work from my house too)... so Saturday morning is my day to get out on my own and visit garage sales. I love the bargains, but I also look forward to the quiet time alone.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Me too!

Especially on the Cape in the summer time. I furnished my beach house that way! :D

[tridim]

5. I used to be addicted.. I guess I'm in recovery now

I also used to go to government auctions every other weekend. Those are dangerous. $5.00 gets you a hell of a lot of stuff.. Like 30 16mm film projectors in one lot.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Garage Sales are like a box of chocolates

You'll never know what you might find. Around here, in South Mississippi, folks get their stuff out at sunrise on Saturday Morning and shut down by noon. I've gotten some great books and garden tools.

[Pool Hall Ace]

7. My SIL has picked up quite a few kids' toys at garage sales.

I admire people who can find bargains. I've been to a few, but all I ever see is junk, junk, and more junk.

DH's cousin does garage sales and auctions to such a degree that we think she might be OC (she even admits this, too). Her house is filled from stem to stern with all sorts of accumulated stuff.

[TNDemo]

8. I was addicted until I had to clean out my mother's house.

She was not addicted. She just had a big house and never threw anything away. It was all clean and organized but by the time I finished that entire place I had vowed I would never do that to my kids and came home and pitched like crazy. Now I figure the real estate in my house is pretty exclusive and expensive. If I am bringing it into the house I better love it or use it a lot, otherwise I pitch it and tell my kids to thank me.

[BikeWriter]

9. I've found all sorts of tra, err, good stuff at garage sales! :-)

[radwriter0555]

10. You don't need ANY of it. Put that .25c in the bank, donate it to charity,

do something worth-while instead of filling your home with more things you simply don't need -- that other people simply didn't need.

I was a yard-sale-aholic for many years, and the useless accumulata was a tremendous useless burden to deal with.. it isn't worth it.

It could be time to assess the consumerism rampant in our soceity.

[CornField]

12. I have three children who grow a bit more each year

So, with all due respect, I do need those jeans for a quarter and that shirt for a dime.

[ohio_liberal]

11. I'm addicted to garage sales and thrift stores

I find the coolest stuff. I got a vintage Gucci handbag for 30 cents (the owner didn't think it was genuine). I carried it for about two years and then I sold it on eBay for $250. :D