Garage Sale Finds #1 - L2Survive with Thatnub

One of my hobbies, and a way I make extra cash, is going to auctions, garage sales and thrift stores. I buy stuff on the cheap then sell it for more. I have a booth in a local consignment shop, I sell on Craigslist, eBay and I have a garage sale about once a month (more in the summer).

I decided to make a weekly(ish) series to motivate you to spend one Saturday a month going to these places with the family to see what you can find. In this series, I will show you all of the prepping supplies I got for next to nothing or free. This is a great way for you to prep when cash is hard to come by. One of the things I learned from selling cars is that EVERYONE drives a used car. Buying used stuff is okay if you have a good wire brush and some soap.

Here are just a couple of tips I have from doing this for the last 15 years. Find a place locally that has monthly auctions. When I go to auctions, I don't buy the one shiny item that everyone wants. I wait until everything has been picked through then I buy the rest of the lot for $5 or $10. I usually get 10 to 30 boxes of stuff. I take what I want then have a garage sale to sell the rest. An easy way to have a garage sale is to put everything out then have a stack of boxes. Charge people $10 for a box and everything they can put in it is paid by that $10. No haggling or fuss. You make your $10 investment back with the first box sold and everything else is profit plus you have some prepping supplies. When you are done having the garage sale, put an ad on Craigslist that everything left in the driveway is free. By morning it will all be gone.

Thrift stores usually have a color of the day/week. Ask someone there if they have a calendar of their sales. At my local Goodwill, everything they have left on their color of the week is only $1.29 on Monday. If you want the good stuff, be there when they open.

Going to garage sales is a great way to get preps. It is rare that I spend more than $1 per item I want. If you have a few items that you want, save them all until you are ready to leave and ask the seller if they will take X amount for all of it. Bundling is a great way to save even more. Don't be afraid of walking away if you don't get the price you wanted. Some people will stop you and go with your price. If not, there are plenty of garage sales every week and there are always people who don't care what they get for an item.

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