I'm not a big garage sale person but the wife sometimes get in the mood to garage sale and sometime we just randomly will stop at a garage sale.

our best buy was an old dirty wooden box with a lid. I bought it to store wood in it out in the garage. But once we got it home I cleaned it up I found that it was a old cedar trunk. I bought it for $20.00 had it refinish and sanded inside for $125.00 we now have a great, very large cedar chest to store blanket, sweater and linen.

I did buy a portable table saw for $5.00 replaced the cord been using it for years.


What at your best garage sale purchase?

Every year, the retirement home in our community has a "garage sale." Years ago, I bought a reclining chair in very good condition for $5.

I don't shop at garage sales because I'm not poor and tacky.

I bought a Hoyt compound bow that was fully ready to hunt for 35 bucks turned around and sold it for 375

Enforcer;1637813 wrote:I bought a Hoyt compound bow that was fully ready to hunt for 35 bucks turned around and sold it for 375

Nice find. Person was either desparate to get rid of it or just plain dumb.

ccrunner609;1637828 wrote:i bought a shopvac that I used for 10 years that I spent $5 on.


Just bought a 35 year old Schwinn collegiate is almost mint condition for $40. Its worth about $400 on ebay.

Too bad they didnt have an AC unit to sell you as well.

ccrunner609;1637828 wrote: Just bought a 35 year old Schwinn collegiate is almost mint condition for $40. Its worth about $400 on ebay.

Nice. I let my girlfriend go to these things with her mom. Not my cup of tea but a saavy shopper can find some diamonds in the rough.

Just today I bought for $100 bucks a XZ2 Ford Escort. Hasn't ran for a year and needs the water pump replaced but figured why not. I can either scrap it or trade the car to my drug dealer for a few ounces of weed easily enough.

TedSheckler;1637794 wrote:I don't shop at garage sales because I'm not poor and tacky.

You don’t shop at garage sale because you don't have any extra money to piss away

Uz2Bon36;1637871 wrote:Just today I bought for $100 bucks a XZ2 Ford Escort. Hasn't ran for a year and needs the water pump replaced but figured why not. I can either scrap it or trade the car to my drug dealer for a few ounces of weed easily enough.

call pull-a-part they will give you 250-300 and pick it up and tow it away...

Got two recliners for $25.

Belly35;1637905 wrote:You don’t shop at garage sale because you don't have any extra money to piss away

True, just the opposite. You have money because you don't piss it away paying top dollar when you can get it for less.

I have bought a lot of gold necklaces, rings, and coins at yard sales for cheap. I did get a 1903s $5 liberty half eagle gold coin in a box of coins at a yard sale once. It is probably my best find. Its not in the best shape but still worth more then I paid for it.

Belly35;1637906 wrote:call pull-a-part they will give you 250-300 and pick it up and tow it away...

At the moment I'm optimistic I can only spend a few hundred bucks and have a decent little front wheel drive car.

Kinda like Ponderosa gives you a decent meal

ccrunner609;1637935 wrote:the problem is that you are driving a escort.

No doubt. No place to hide those kids that ya lure into your vehicle at the park.....

$10 pinball machine when I was 12. I had to have made 1k on quarters alone with that thing just sitting in my parents basement growing up. Drunk people can not resist a pinball machine and were too stupid to realize you could have just turned it off arcade mode and played for free lol

ccrunner609;1637935 wrote:the problem is that you are driving a escort.

Maybe he'd rather spend his income on air conditioning.

Belly35;1637905 wrote:You don’t shop at garage sale because you don't have any extra money to piss away

lol Good one! You really got me. lulz roflcopter lollerskates

TedSheckler;1637969 wrote:lol Good one! You really got me. lulz roflcopter lollerskates

then give me a rep you butt wipe

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