National Garage Sale Day!

Annually, National Garage Sale Day is the second Saturday in August. That means this year it’s August 14th.

If you’ve never tried shopping at garage sales (or yard sales, or rummage sales, or tag sales… depending on your region), give it a try this year. While it takes some experience to spot a good deal, at the very least you can enjoy the eclectic mix of items for sale and chat with the folks holding the sales.

Second-hand shopping is becoming more popular, not only because of the down economy, but folks like to copy the Hollywood hot shots, and many of today’s young, hip stars are sporting vintage finds from second-hand sources.

Part of the fun of shopping at garage sales, whether it’s National Garage Sale Day or not, is the bartering or haggling. Where else do you get to dicker over the price? There’s an art to it, so if you’re new to bartering, check out Garage Sale Etiquette: Useful Phrases When Haggling.

Or maybe you’ll find an incredible treasure such as the man who paid $45 for a box of old glass photo negatives only to find out they were the lost work of Ansel Adams and are valued at an estimated $200 million.

If you’re not in the mood to shop, take the opportunity to hold your own sale and make a little cash with all the junk you no longer need. Old toys, old books, old movies (both VHS and DVD), appliances, clothing, furniture and more are all good candidates for making a little cash. Make it a family affair and do a little late spring cleaning. What doesn’t sell can be donated to charity. (Be sure to take a photo and get a receipt.)

Check out these articles for some ideas about pricing items for sale at your garage sale, or how to make great signs for your garage sale. Of course, advertising is key, which is why GarageSaleFinder.com is such a great idea. Use it in conjunction with your signs and perhaps a newspaper ad for maximum traffic.

Here’s one last article: Top 25 tips for having a great garage sale

So mark your calendar: August 14th – National Garage Sale Day

Here’s the button for the TomTom download of the sales in Hampton Roads this weekend.

Don’t have a GPS? No problem, there are printable maps with directions available on the website as well.

It’s time to hit the road and get shopping, there are few hundred just in the Hampton Roads area.

This week I created the button for the whole state of Virginia, instead of just the Tidewater sales, to my one-click button for automatic TomTom installation this week.

Have fun shopping!

Eleventh ANNUAL
“GREAT U.S. 50 YARD SALE”

“THE NATION’S YARD SALE”

MAY 21-23, 2010

GENERAL INFORMATION

The eleventh annual Great U.S. 50 Yard Sale will be held Friday-Sunday, May 21-23, 2010. The yard sale started in 2000, stretching across most of Indiana. The goal is for it to grow into a Coast-to-Coast event held each year on the weekend before the Memorial Day weekend. The Great U.S. 50 Yard Sale also serves to promote tourism along U.S. 50, to unite the many diverse communities, to provide opportunities for fund raising by civic organizations, to aid the environment through recycling, and to serve as an opportunity for individuals to enjoy a great weekend of sales.

SPREAD THE WORD

The National Coordinator for the U.S. 50 Yard Sale is Tom Taylor of North Vernon, Indiana. totaylor@seidata.com

Please forward the www.route50.com site to friends.

166 garage sales today. Lots of them are neighborhood-wide. Hopefully the weather holds out.

Got a different GPS? Use the CSV button on the Sale List panel and export the data to other devices. For more information check out our instructions on how to import garage sale data into your GPS.

Hampton Roads
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Don’t have a TomTom? Most other brands of GPS devices can import a CSV file. Look for the button just above the listings on our garage sale map.

If you’re planning a community garage sale, Garage Sale Finder would like to help. We offer special FREE services to communities planning a community-wide or neighborhood-wide sale.

1. We can simply add a single bright magenta Community Garage Sale Icon icon to our regular maps; just tell us the best intersection to put it on. Email the information to us at least one day before your sale and we’ll add it to our database and the many visitors to the garagesalefinder.com site each week will see your sale with the extra attention the unique icon adds. It would still be a good idea to encourage your members to list their garage sales (for free), as the more markers clustered together on a map, the higher the traffic flow.or…
2. We can show all of the individual addresses for the sales in your neighborhood on our map and even provide you with a custom map showing the sales in your neighborhood that you can print out and distribute the day of your sale.Here’s the information we’ll need to make your custom map:
   • Neighborhood/Subdivision Name (civic league name)
   • Dates of Sale
   • Time of Sale
   • Street Addresses of Participants
   • Brief Description of Sale (optional)

Just email the information to us at least 2 days before your sale and we’ll add the data to our database, create a unique map just for you, and send you a link that you can use to print out the map or even post on sites like Craigslist.org. Better yet, the large number of visitors to the garagesalefinder.com site each week will see your sale and will be drawn by the large cluster of sales in one area.

If you have any questions about our Community Garage Sale services, please email us via our contact form, or call us at (757) 638-8041.