garage sale

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Buying a bargain at a yard sale is not just a matter of happenstance. If you want to get that deal home, you have to be ready for it. Jason Cochran traveled to the famous World's Longest Yard Sale in rural Tennessee, where he shows you the tips and tricks for scoring the best treasures at yard...

I'm sitting in an old wicker chair (make me an offer) outside my garage on Chicago's North Side. It's not even 12:30 p.m. on this gorgeous Saturday and we've had a steady stream of customers parading through our alley all day for our garage sale. And they're buying all sorts of castoff and leftover...

Spring cleaning season is upon us, and once again, we've got the urge to purge our stuff. Don't just junk it, though. Economize and make money fast by selling it in a yard sale. Bruce Littlefield, author of Garage Sale America, has some solid advice for making sure your garage sale makes space in...

With yard-sale season coming to an end in many parts of the country, thousands of bargain hunters will be experiencing symptoms of withdrawal. Luckily, there is help. While yard sales still present the best opportunity for bargains on household items and valuable collectibles that can be resold on...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is having a garage sale, so if you're in need of a 2002 Crown Victoria with 97,349 miles on it and signed by the governor, you may want to get to Sacramento.Or bid on EBay soon. The top bid for the car was $3,051.01 on Wednesday morning. If it's not sold...

When I was a kid in the 1970s, my younger brother and I used to travel across the countryside with my grandmother, an aunt and an uncle, looking for yard sales. I don't think they bought much, and I'm very sure they were never looking for anything in particular. It was just a way to pass time.Flash...

More so than tulips or rosebuds, spring brings a multicolored sprout that makes my budget-loving heart leap up: poster-board signs of pink, yellow and green announcing yet another garage sale.Yes, garage sale season has arrived, and if you toured the Carlozo abode, you'd see evidence of yard sale...

Update May 2009: Craigslist is still the go-to site for local second-hand bargains. Just don't expect to find ads for erotic services; the site has pulled them in reponse to recent controversy. A yard sale has its shortcomings. What if you don't have a lot of items, don't want to sit by your...

It seems the IRS wants a piece of any type of income you had last year... So it's not uncommon for taxpayers to ask about what they're supposed to do with the money they made from a garage sale. The answer to this question is pretty simple. If you sold a handful of personal items at a garage sale...