Happy Friday Everyone!

Today I thought we’d do something a little differently. I was approached from the author of GarageSalesTracker website to publish a short post on garage sales. In honor of that, I’d love to hear about the best item or worst item you have ever found at a garage sale, and what you paid for it, or what it was on sale for (if you remember).

My Garage Sale Confession

The best item I bought at a garage sale was my magenta-colored reading chair for $10. Woohoo! The worst item I have ever seen on sale at a garage sale was used pillows…that were stained…with God knows what…I don’t even remember what they were on sale for, but trust me, they were not a bargain.

Leave a comment with your own great and horrible finds–I’d love to hear them. Happy Hunting everyone!

GarageSalesTracker Guest Post

When the weekend hits, most non-frugalites start off by going to happy hour before hitting the stores to blow their entire paycheck on a spending spree.

Nowadays folks have to be a little bit more cautious as we have witnessed the un-witness able in the past year and a half. So how do we do that?

The weekend has turned into a bargain hunters dream. With garage sales flooding the market more so than ever before due to families fighting off foreclosures and all of the accumulated household items of the past few years are being offered for pennies on the dollar.

CNN just recently broke a story on recession busters and how a Midwest woman has turned her hobby of hitting the weekend yard sales into a career which profits her over a thousand dollars a month from buying valuable items at cheap prices and than re-selling them online. Here’s another story of a woman who supplements her income with purchasing things at garage sales and re-selling them.

If your mission isn’t to make money from these sales no need to worry the family can still benefit tremendously from large discounts on baby clothes, toys, books, electronics, antiques, and jewelry. No, matter what your need is there’s always a hidden treasure out there waiting for you.