There was a lot of commotion last year when the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 was about to go into effect. The biggest issue was the resale of various goods by second-hand stores and hand-made items made by artists throughout the country. What had everyone up in arms was the requirement for these [...]
In south-side Hampton Roads, the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth, require residents to apply and pay for a garage sale before having a sale. Each of these cities has their own regulations regarding garage sales or yard sales, including restrictions on the number of days you may hold your sale and where you are [...]
While my primary goal of shopping at garage sales is not to make money, I have made hundreds of dollars reselling purchases in the past two years. My niche for resale items: college textbooks I’ve bought them for as little as 50¢, with a resale value of over $75. Last summer one seller gave me [...]
One thing a lot of people don’t consider when shopping at garage sales is the fact that they can find gifts there too. Many times you can find brand new items at a garage sale that someone didn’t use, didn’t wear or just plain forgot about. While these items maybe fewer and far between, they [...]
Rather than just export the Hampton Roads yard sale listings this weekend, I made the TomTom button for all 274 of the garage sales in the whole commonwealth. If you need help importing/exporting garage sale listings for a different brand of personal GPS, please let me know.