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Old 10-06-2023, 06:15 AM
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sewingpup
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My sister and I have had several. They are a lot of work. They get rid of a lot of stuff. We set up in my sister's garage so we can work on pricing for a few days before. Everything is out on tables. Day of the sale, we open the door and start pulling the tables out along the sides of the driveway. One person mans the money table, the other helps out as needed and tidy's up the tables as some people will just pull things out and toss them back anywhere. We always have a "free" box at the end of the driveway and it always gets rid of a lot of "stuff". As the day goes on and this box gets emptied, we pull stuff off the tables, remove the tags and it is now "free". At the end we divide the remains into three categories. Good stuff we will take back in for the next sale. I have limited my boxes for that to 2-3 boxes, then we have the boxes of stuff that we will take to one of the donation stores, and finally, there may be some stuff we just trash. The would-be things like an old chair that needs a seat replacement. Sometimes crafters like to take things like that and fix them up. We usually do have a couple of antique dealers that stop by and anything we think they might buy we really do put a higher price on. They will try and bring the price down but sometimes we hold pretty firm on it and they sometimes pay that price. Sometimes they don't want to pay that price so we tell them if they want to check back at the end of the sale, they can have it for that price if nobody else has offered more. I can't say we make a ton of money but hey, we get rid of a lot of stuff without having to haul it ourselves and it keeps a lot out of the landfill.
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