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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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
