yard sale weirdness

[~~Who,Me?~~]

I did my first yard sale in a long time. It was at local VFW which is in a small town, lots of people could walk there.

The turnout wasn't nearly what I had hoped, but I did ok.

Weird--I had dozens of boxes of pencils, either they were free after ECBs or they were a penny or whatever....I gave many boxes to my kid's school, then I thought, heck they're just taking up space.

They were one of the first things to go, and not just one customer taking them all. It was about 4-5 customers, each buying several boxes. I sold them for 0.25 each box.

Who knew pencils would be the big draw at a yard sale?

Meanwhile, no one even looked at all my maternity clothes.

[judystock]

My yard sale today was weird too. People were looking for fishing stuff and toys. But I sold all of my Stride gum!

[XUfan]

I didn't HAVE a yard sale today...but I went to about 30 of them! Every year we go as often as we can...and every year, I find several sales where people are selling a box full of earrings for like $5 or something like that. This year, I started wearing earrings again...and NOBODY had ANY earrings for sale!!! Not even a few single pairs...and surely not a box of them. Now, I wish I had bought all of those that I saw last year!

Also, my husband is looking for tires for 2 cars. We always see people selling tires at garage sales. Not today!

[jen276here]

I had my sale last week. Baby items are always a big seller here...not last weekend! Everyone was after the old golf clubs and the knick-knackie things, which never sell for me...Must be an off year! lol

[~~Who,Me?~~]

Yeah, I was really surprised at how little baby clothing I sold. I worked really hard on it too. I had it sorted by size, by season and I even rubber-banded all the sets together, matched up pieces, etc.

My neighborhood does a community wide thing every other year, this was the off year. I didn't do it last year because I had a newborn and was too busy. So at least I'll already be prepared for next year, since what I have in baby stuff so far is sized and priced.

My stockpile items, I didn't take many, maybe 50-75 things, marked it all $1. It did well, so now seeing as I am newly unemployed, I will concentrated on building up a big stockpile to sell.

ETA: and pencils, I'll stockpile more pencils. Who wants to be I don't sell a single pack next year?

[blossomed]

School and office supplies are just not on sale right now. I know I have been looking for a crayon deal for two months and nothing! I have also been looking for a cheap ballpoint pen deal for a couple of weeks and nothing!

[CW&M Mom]

Some children consignment store will take maternity clothing..and they can sell pretty decently on ebay as well.

Yup and agree...bizarre what will go and what will stay..the only guarantee I have...is that if DH is there and prices stuff...nothing goes LOL...so we do it when he's gone.

[cybilx10]

You guys arent making me look forward to my garage sale this coming week. We dont have the baby maternity things we used to so this is gonna be a whole new ballgame for me. Im worried its not going to go as well as it has in the past. And I have os much stuff that I think Im gonna run out of room.

But thanks to Congalady from a great secret pal swap I got my signs and stickers ready to go!

[res030ei]

We had a yard sale this past weekend. Seems people want the "junk" before they want the good stuff :shrug7: oh well as long as they buy it!
We made $205. We did sell some kids clothes. For us the kids clothes goes pretty fast.