I think most people have had the pleasure of selling a few things.
You can take things to the pawn shop if you want to or you can have a yard sale....... or a garage sale.
Of course a yard sale and a garage sale are essentially the same thing except that a garage sale mostly takes place in a garage.
When you pass by a house and the entire front yard is strewn with various sundry articles of clothing and high chairs and tables with knick knacks all over them then you are looking at a yard sale.
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Most people aren't really interested in selling their things. I'm not necessarily saying that we are a nation of hoarders, but honestly if you didn't like the things in the first place you wouldn't have bought them.
When people sell things it's usually because their partner is not interested in having the house cluttered up. At least that's how it was for me when I had my first sale.
Each individual item was important to me and I felt like individual items should be selling for a very high price.
My partner disagreed.
Fortunately I had already been through a similar situation 10 years ago before.
A friend of mine had decided to sell quite a few of the toys that he had growing up.
Included among these toys were several boxes of Legos. When I say several I mean lots, and lots, and lots of boxes of expensive Legos of every imaginable type.
A man came by looking for whatever he could get for a good price.
My friend went inside to use the bathroom but his wife stayed outside looking to sell this book, and that teddy bear, and this toy, and the other toy.
She sold the man all of the boxes for $5.
They were easily worth several hundred of dollars....... if not thousands of dollars.
My friend was extremely upset and his wife could never understand.
To him they were his cherished childhood toys but to his wife it was all garbage.
Of course when he was finally able to show her how much they were actually worth guess who got in trouble?
That's just the way it goes I guess.
I've never really enjoyed having yard sales but I do like going to them.
I think I'll check to see if I can find anything interesting at a yard sale this weekend.
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