Fleas in your Garage

How many of you love to go treasure hunting? How many of you love to go bargain hunting? Or maybe you like to make a little money. A great way to find those treasures and those bargains is to attend a garage sale or a flea market. A way to make money is to hold one yourself or sell you wares at a flea market.

Craft sales, garage sales and flea markets abound during the weekends. You can’t drive down a street without seeing a garage sale sign. The trick is to find the garage sale with the hidden treasure. My wife’s aunt seems to have a knack for finding garage sales that have great items.  Who knows you may even find a hidden treasure that you can take to Antique Road Show or Pawn Stars and get some serious cash.

I enjoy going to flea markets and garage sales but I don’t go to near enough that I would like to. You have to set aside almost a full morning on a Saturday to hit as many that you would like so it makes it worth your while. The best time to go is on a Thursday morning but for those of us who work that requires a day off.

Holding a garage sale is a different animal altogether. It requires gathering up all of your stuff and pricing it. Then you have to spend hours for three days sitting in your garage as the customers come in to try and get you to reduce your price on a 50 cent item to 25 cents. Really, they can’t afford the 25 cents. It isn’t worth the headache for me to hold a garage sale so we donate our items but we do sell some of the bigger items on an individual basis.

Seek out a garage sale or a flea market this weekend and find a treasure for the one you love.