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Garage Sale Resources

Garage Sale Resources


FREE! Explore our ever-growing library of useful garage sale resources hand-picked for your garage sale and thrifting success.



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Clothing Racks and Table Rentals





Rent Clothing Racks and Tables  —  First you want to borrow or build as many tables and clothing racks as you can, of course. (A couple of ladders and some plywood will do in a pinch!) Then if you still don't have enough display space to get everything you're selling up off the ground for your sale,   you may want to rent a few inexpensive folding tables or clothing racks either for a day or an entire weekend.

In the Oklahoma City Metro, for example, you can rent 6 ft rectangular folding tables for $7 per weekend and 36" round clothing racks for $13 per weekend. You don't even have to pay a deposit. Both tables and clothing racks fold up for easy transport and fit inside most vehicles.

To reserve tables and clothing racks for a yard sale in NW Oklahoma City, Yukon or Mustang call 405.209.2424. In SW Oklahoma City, Moore or Norman call 405.863.8590. Or visit the Clothing Rack's Facebook page, here.



Community Calendar: Citywide & Neighborhood Garage Sales





2021 City Wide & Neighborhood Garage Sale Events Calendar


City Wide & Neighborhood Garage Sales  — Calendar list of annual city-wide, community, highway and neighborhood garage sales.



Free Price Guides




Enjoy free access to comprehensive online identification and price guides that can help you estimate the market value for popular antiques, collectibles and household goods commonly sold at thrift stores and garage sales.



Garage Sale Tool Kit





Less Hassle and More Profit At Your Next Garage Sale Or Your Money Back!  —   Organizing Guru Marcia Grazia's Get Organized Now Garage Sale Toolkit is the easiest way to Plan, Promote and Profit from Garage Sales.



Garage Sale Signs





Free Printable Signs, Price Tags & Checklists - Garage Sale signs can make or break your sale, but you don't have to spend a lot of money on them! Check out these high-quality free printable garage sale signs, price tags, checklists, and more free DIY downloads!



Cute Yard Sale Aprons





Flattering, Fashionable, Flirty Aprons  — It's much safer to keep your money on your person in the pocket of an apron than in a cash box that thieves know to look for at garage sales. These affordable, high-quality aprons come with pockets in numerous styles that are uniquely designed to flatter all body types from PETITE to PLUS SIZE. They have a darling flirty cut, adjustable neck ties and long waist ties that you can tie in an ample bow in the front or back of your apron. Unlike ugly tool aprons and fanny packs, these stylish full-body aprons not only help protect your cash but your clothes, too.



Free Garage Sale Ads



Garage Sale Resource: Free Advertising

Save time & money advertising your garage sale — (Free!) PostMyGarageSale.com helps you get the word out and reach more people in less time without spending a dime. Simply post a single, free garage sale ad at PostMyGarageSale.com and in turn they publish it for you on five major garage sale websites. Not only that, but PostMyGarageSale.com also emails details about your sale to a huge database of subscribers from each of the popular websites. Edit your ad text or add photos at any time — even after it's posted. Your free garage sale ads will update automatically.



Cash Register Garage Sale App



Garage Sale Resource: Free Multi-Family Calculator

Checkout Customers, Track Multiple Sellers — If you're hosting a multi-family garage sale (or any event with more than one seller,) you need TallySheet. More than just a free cash register app, TallySheet (TallySheetApp.com) allows multiple cashiers to login on their smart phones and checkout customers simultaneously. The app not only calculates totals for each transaction (including how much change to give the customer) but also tracks who sold what for how much, the total amount earned by each seller and it generates real-time reports with accurate sales and payout totals.



Neighborhood Garage Sale Map Maker




Garage Sale Map Maker


With Batchgeo, it's never been easier to make a Neighborhood Garage Sale Map. Just copy and paste your address list into Batchgeo's customizable map maker and share your neighborhood garage sale map with the world! You can use your custom map to make flyers, post it on social media and even add it to your website in seconds.



Accept Credit Cards






Square Up — Accept credit card payments from customers at your Garage Sale...  or anywhere! You can often find used card readers on Amazon for just two or three dollars and brand new Square card readers for as little as $6 and up.



Counterfeit Detection




Counterfeit Detector Pen w/ UV Light + 2 FREE Pens

Counterfeit Detector Pen w/ UV Light Cap + 2 FREE Pens — With $850 billion dollars of mostly twenty and 100 dollar counterfeit bills floating around the U.S., it's pretty risky to accept large bills at your Garage Sale. But refuse cash, and you risk losing customers. Fortunately, today for less than $10 you can buy the same type of counterfeit detection device that bank tellers use. This Dri-mark counterfeit detection pen is our favorite because it has two effective tests for detecting bad bills in one convenient pocket size pen. It's also really easy to use. A quick pen stroke authenticates U.S. currency paper. (If it turns dark, the bill is fake.) And a powerful UV light reveals the hidden security strip. Detect one bad twenty dollar bill and the product has paid for itself.



Free pickup of Garage Sale Leftovers






Free Donation Pick-Up — At SATTRUCK.ORG it's easy to schedule a time for the Salvation Army Truck to come to you! You can specify whether your items for donation are out on the curb ready for pickup, or if you would prefer for the driver to ring your doorbell and speak to you first.



Find Top-Rated Hauling Services




Top-Rated Hauling Services


Find Top-Rated Hauling Services for Leftovers — If you have garage sale leftovers that aren't donation material, you can use the hauling services search engine at Angi.com (formally Angi's List) to find top-rated haulers in your area. 



Garage Sale Caddy






Personal Folding Shopping Cart — I use a personal shopping cart to keep my hands free at garage sales so I can shop. At some garage sales, the host will give you plastic grocery bags to help you carry purchases, which I really appreciate. I'll slide them up my arm and keep shopping, but eventually they get too heavy — especially at Neighborhood Garage Sales when I'm too far away from my car to jet back and stash what I've bought so far.

Besides being lightweight and rust-resistant, what I like about this particular personal shopping cart  is how easily it folds flat and fits in my car trunk where I store it until next time. The double baskets are really handy, too. I put my purse and large-ish finds in the big basket and my wallet, breakables and small valuables that I want to keep a close eye on in the rear-facing smaller basket. It's been a real game-changer for me.



Product Info





ManualsLib —  Second-hand appliances and electronics don't always come with the user manual. Fortunately, ManualsLib.com allows you to view and download pdf user manuals for more than 1,600,000 products from 43,462 brands. It's absolutely FREE and there's no signup required.






Real or Repro — Real Or Repro is an excellent online resource for identifying fakes and reproductions of antiques and collectibles. Powered by Ruby Lane, the extensive, free library has information on thousands of pieces spanning all marketplaces and periods, including specific attributes buyers should look for to determine whether or not a particular item is a reproduction.





Consumer Reports — Buying used goods doesn't have to be a crap shoot! Consumer Reports offers top and worst rated product rankings, unbiased testing results, ratings and reviews on everything from new and used cars to microwaves, as well as advice on how to be a better shopper.




If you have a question about the safety of any new or used product, WWW.RECALLS.GOV should have your answer. Drawing from six U.S. federal agencies, Recalls.gov is a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls and consumer product safety information. The website covers everything from cars, boats, tires and strollers to cosmetics, food, medicine and more.




Did you know that Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products - including thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, flea markets and individuals holding yard or garage sales? 

The Reseller's Guide to Selling Safer Products is designed to help resellers recognize and refrain from selling potentially dangerous products and consumer goods that are illegal to resell. (The information in the reseller's guide can also help Consumers avoid buying harmful products.) Visit CPSC.GOV for more information.




Repair Garage Sale Items





Learn to fix just about anything — Ifixit.com teaches you how to repair things instead of throw them away, creating countless new opportunities for you to rescue garage sale trash and turn it into treasure. The Wiki-based website offers over thirty thousand FREE step-by-step repair guides covering nearly 10,000 products plus 120,000 trouble shooting solutions for fixing, well, everything.



Replacement Parts





Order replacement parts online   — Fixing things just makes sense. Why buy an expensive new tool or piece of equipment when you can pick one up on Craigslist or at a garage sale for less than half the price? A lot of the time all you need is an inexpensive part to have it running like new again. eReplacementparts.com stocks parts and accessories for just about every type and brand of product you might buy second hand including; DeWALT, Makita, Briggs & Stratton, Black & Decker, Toro, Craftsman, Echo, KitchenAid, Cuisinart, Nordic Track, Garmin, Dell, Bissell, Dirt Devil, Eureka, and more.



Hire Virtual Help





Virtual Assistants for eBay Sellers  — Celebrated eBay coach and entrepreneur Suzanne A. Wells' eBay Virtual Assistant Service allows eBay sellers to get the help they need without the high cost and responsibility of hiring a full-time employee. Through Suzanne A. Wells, you pay a flat fee of just $2 per item (minimum 20 items) for carefully screened, experienced ebayers to list your products for you.



Buy and Sell Used Online






Buy and sell gently used wedding items online   — Bridal Garage Sales (bridalgaragesales.com) is a virtual garage sale that offers couples the opportunity to make the most of their wedding experience without breaking the bank. At bridalgaragesales.com you'll find bargains on everything from gently used couture Wedding gowns, Bridesmaid dresses and bouquets to cake stands and candelabras.





Easily Find Facebook Buy Sell Groups — We love Facebook groups for buying and selling. But searching for a Buy Sell group on Facebook? Not so much. Mygroupfinder.com has organized Facebook's Buy Sell groups making it easy to find groups in your local community or a particular category. It's also free. Simply enter your city or a keyword in mygroupfinder's search box and it will give you a list of Buy Sell groups on Facebook that match your criteria — minus all of the miscellaneous groups you didn't search for and probably wouldn't interest you.





Easily Find Facebook Buy Sell Groups — We love Facebook groups for buying and selling. But searching for a Buy Sell group on Facebook? Not so much. Mygroupfinder.com has organized Facebook's Buy Sell groups making it easy to find groups in Oklahoma City or a particular category. 






Easily Find Facebook Buy Sell Groups in Tulsa, OK — We love Facebook groups for buying and selling. But searching for a Buy Sell group on Facebook? Not so much. Mygroupfinder.com has organized Facebook's Buy Sell groups making it easy to find groups in Tulsa or a particular category. It's also free. 






Safely complete ecommerce deals under the watchful eye of cameras and/or law enforcement officers -- Map and photos of designated "safe exchange" locations where buyers and sellers can meet publicly for in-person transactions and complete deals that originate online via websites like Craigslist, Offer Up, and Facebook Marketplace,









The Vintage Hashtag Library from @vavoomvintage is a free, categorized google spreadsheet of more than 300 popular vintage and retro hashtags that you can browse on Instagram and Twitter and copy and paste directly into your Instagram posts. Categories range from pinup and rockabilly style to vintage collectibles and everything in between. #vintagegaragesale, #thriftshopping, #fleamarketfinds, #estatesaletreasures and #shopsecondhand are just a few of the hash tags you'll discover at The Vintage Hashtag Library. 





Seized Property Auctions & Real Estate Foreclosures




Save money buying anything and everything   — The ultimate bargain hunter's website, GovernmentAuctions.org helps you find government auctions of seized and surplus property and bank-owned real estate foreclosures throughout the US.  FREE TRIAL!



Used Book Sales, Auctions, Book Fairs, Library Sales





Booksalefinder.com maintains a database of more than 6,000 used book sales, auctions, book fairs and Library sales happening across the U.S. and in Canada each year. You can view sale locations on a map or browse the listings alphabetically by city and calendar date to find upcoming local book sales near you. The service is free and the books are cheap — typically 50 cents to a dollar for paperbacks, around $2 for hardbacks and even less for children's books. A complete set of a Time Life book series may set you back as little as $15.



Store Locators





Goodwill Industries International   — Find a Goodwill Store or donation center near you.