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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 550982" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Plato's Closet is the biggest rip-off joint around. Once Upon a Child was sometiems useful if we had time to really really browse. Generally the tax write-off for a donation was worth more than the amt OUaC would give for the item. With both of those stores the amt you get for your items depends FAR more on who you know than what you have to offer. </p><p></p><p>If you want to be serious about yard sales, I have some tips. First, get a good map of where you are generally yardsaling. Have it laminated. It will be worth the investment. Get a water-soluble marker or a dry erase marker Use these to write on the map. Either Fri night or around 6 or 7 on Sat morn, pick the sales you want to go to out of the paper. Find them on the map and mark them. I gave each place a letter (a, b, c etc...) and put the letter on the map by the location. On paper I wrote out the address, the letter name and the start time. If I was wanting to ask about osmething specific listed in the ad, I wrote that down too. </p><p></p><p>Then you look at the map and figure out the easiest route that will take you past the sales you want to visit. It sounds like a hassle but really takes very little time and it can save you a TON in time and gas from driving across town to go to a sale and then one on the other side of town and then back to this side. </p><p></p><p>I used to get up by six every Sat and go to yard sales. For YEARS. This tapered off when my body got all cranky, but it was a lot of fun. It also got my kids into the "you pay retail? Are you an idiot?" mindset. NOT that we EVER said those words, but they saw us buying close to new items for very little money and the saw/heard classmates talking about paying twenty five bucks for a shirt or pair of shorts and would laugh and laugh. They truly thought it was hysterical. My kids all think retail is fun to look at and maybe buy on clearance, but NOT for buying new.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 550982, member: 1233"] Plato's Closet is the biggest rip-off joint around. Once Upon a Child was sometiems useful if we had time to really really browse. Generally the tax write-off for a donation was worth more than the amt OUaC would give for the item. With both of those stores the amt you get for your items depends FAR more on who you know than what you have to offer. If you want to be serious about yard sales, I have some tips. First, get a good map of where you are generally yardsaling. Have it laminated. It will be worth the investment. Get a water-soluble marker or a dry erase marker Use these to write on the map. Either Fri night or around 6 or 7 on Sat morn, pick the sales you want to go to out of the paper. Find them on the map and mark them. I gave each place a letter (a, b, c etc...) and put the letter on the map by the location. On paper I wrote out the address, the letter name and the start time. If I was wanting to ask about osmething specific listed in the ad, I wrote that down too. Then you look at the map and figure out the easiest route that will take you past the sales you want to visit. It sounds like a hassle but really takes very little time and it can save you a TON in time and gas from driving across town to go to a sale and then one on the other side of town and then back to this side. I used to get up by six every Sat and go to yard sales. For YEARS. This tapered off when my body got all cranky, but it was a lot of fun. It also got my kids into the "you pay retail? Are you an idiot?" mindset. NOT that we EVER said those words, but they saw us buying close to new items for very little money and the saw/heard classmates talking about paying twenty five bucks for a shirt or pair of shorts and would laugh and laugh. They truly thought it was hysterical. My kids all think retail is fun to look at and maybe buy on clearance, but NOT for buying new. [/QUOTE]
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