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How to draw people into your garage sale...
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Well, that would have made me swing in for a look. Whether it would induce me to buy anything, though.... ??
I"d have stopped for sure!
Back in the day a friend of mine was moving and having a garage sale to reduce the amount they had to move, not because they cared about the money. So their policy was : Buy one item and you can pick another item for free, and if you don't pick one, I'll pick it for you.
Back in the day a friend of mine was moving and having a garage sale to reduce the amount they had to move, not because they cared about the money. So their policy was : Buy one item and you can pick another item for free, and if you don't pick one, I'll pick it for you.
We had a really good day. The canoes drew people in and even those who didn't buy anything got boat house and shop tours and the history of all the boats we have. We met a lot of canoeists in town and spread out what we do here. We found out the history of the house and out building and the good karma part is what we call the boathouse used to be a lumber shed originally and after that somebody built plywood boats in it. It was a pretty cool day and I don't even remember the names of everyone who I spoke to. One old fellow in the morning told us of a w/c canoe sitting on someones front lawn about 10 miles away and he drove me out to look at it, but it wasn't there. Such is life.
One persons junk is anothers treasure, we did $350 in sales, 10% will go to the Warren Curling Club. This was the annual town wide garage sale and maybe 50 homes were involved and I have never seen so many people in this town. It was a beautiful day, a bit hot, 81F by noon. I think the key to selling was telling the people to make offers rather than pricing everything.
Now we will be having people come by to see what we are doing and maybe watch the process of restoring boats.
One persons junk is anothers treasure, we did $350 in sales, 10% will go to the Warren Curling Club. This was the annual town wide garage sale and maybe 50 homes were involved and I have never seen so many people in this town. It was a beautiful day, a bit hot, 81F by noon. I think the key to selling was telling the people to make offers rather than pricing everything.
Now we will be having people come by to see what we are doing and maybe watch the process of restoring boats.
How many skid marks out front?
I had a dollar sale when I moved. "Anything Not Marked is a Dollar". I had people still questioning the price. One guy had 6 unmarked items and gave me $10 and said, 'Keep it'. It totally threw people off, it was a fun day and I still made over $900.
No Canoe stuff was sold.
I had a dollar sale when I moved. "Anything Not Marked is a Dollar". I had people still questioning the price. One guy had 6 unmarked items and gave me $10 and said, 'Keep it'. It totally threw people off, it was a fun day and I still made over $900.
No Canoe stuff was sold.
We also may have found a source for the white spruce we need for the Morris. Early in the morning a fellow from town wandered in to look at the canoes and he mentioned he dropped a couple of white spruce trees on his property last fall. They are cut into 10 and 15 foot sections and he has a couple other trees to still bring down, so we may be able to get 20 foot sections. We will still need to find a mill to cut them for us...
Sounds like a good day. I would have stopped for sure and taken the tour. I stopped at a garage sale (we call them tag sales) this morning, picked up a pair of $2 muck boots. The guy selling them look somewhat clean so I took a chance...I'll wear two pair of socks with them for a while.
Later I went to a 4 yo Granddaughters birthday party and met a guy who had done 6 trips to Alaska in his 5th wheel, they are 73 each and leaving for trip 7 from the east coast early June going thru Canada, fun day..
Later I went to a 4 yo Granddaughters birthday party and met a guy who had done 6 trips to Alaska in his 5th wheel, they are 73 each and leaving for trip 7 from the east coast early June going thru Canada, fun day..
In another province, and in another time in our lives, we at first struggled with the adventurous and carefree attitude of other apartment dwellers. We were of the habit of putting down roots, staying put and accumulating stuff, while our friends would ask us "Have you found a new place yet? Are you ready for Moving Day / Fete du demanagement?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Day_(Quebec)
We were like hoarders compared to our friends and neighbours. We filled corners, shelves and closets with books, record collections, art, and all the nonsensical stuff that sticks to us whenever we wander through antique barns, flea markets and yard sales. Our spartan friends on the other hand would just give us a quizzical look and say "You're going to need a bigger truck in July." When my wife and I were finally bitten by the moving bug (and shed most of the material baggage) it became exciting settling into a new place in a new neighbourhood, followed 8 months later with the adventurous anticipation of wondering what it might be like to live on that other street in that other quarter of the city. What was strange though, was seeing how few yard sales there were. Friends and acquaintances would give away some bits and pieces of their lives to prepare for July 1st . "Do you like my chairs, yes? I'll give them to you, but you must take this big houseplant also." Eventually we got the hang of it, and in the last apartment we had subsisted only with basic furniture, music and books; no curtains or rugs, no wall decor or houseplants...
Years later now we've fallen out of the moving day lifestyle, and fallen into filling our home with bits and pieces of our travels and our lives...and other people's yard sales; although the last move we made 10 years ago, we arrived with just 2 antique dressers and 1 bed. No curtains or rugs, no wall decor or houseplants. Sitting here typing this I see a new member to our house of stuff, over there on the kitchen counter. M couldn't resist stopping off at one of the many yard sales and antique barns on her way home from a bike ride today. She bought a bread box. It's cute. I kinda like it. Now our loaves of bread have a bread garage. It also means that if and when we move again, we'll need to have one almighty yard sale...or we'll need to get a bigger truck.
Your yard sale sounded great Mihun. It feels good to let some things go; even better to help out a good cause. Meeting neighbours and strangers and making friendly connections is what it's all about. A shop tour was a great idea! I bet your place was the most fascinating and popular stop in town. You seriously might have to host an open house every year.
We were like hoarders compared to our friends and neighbours. We filled corners, shelves and closets with books, record collections, art, and all the nonsensical stuff that sticks to us whenever we wander through antique barns, flea markets and yard sales. Our spartan friends on the other hand would just give us a quizzical look and say "You're going to need a bigger truck in July." When my wife and I were finally bitten by the moving bug (and shed most of the material baggage) it became exciting settling into a new place in a new neighbourhood, followed 8 months later with the adventurous anticipation of wondering what it might be like to live on that other street in that other quarter of the city. What was strange though, was seeing how few yard sales there were. Friends and acquaintances would give away some bits and pieces of their lives to prepare for July 1st . "Do you like my chairs, yes? I'll give them to you, but you must take this big houseplant also." Eventually we got the hang of it, and in the last apartment we had subsisted only with basic furniture, music and books; no curtains or rugs, no wall decor or houseplants...
Years later now we've fallen out of the moving day lifestyle, and fallen into filling our home with bits and pieces of our travels and our lives...and other people's yard sales; although the last move we made 10 years ago, we arrived with just 2 antique dressers and 1 bed. No curtains or rugs, no wall decor or houseplants. Sitting here typing this I see a new member to our house of stuff, over there on the kitchen counter. M couldn't resist stopping off at one of the many yard sales and antique barns on her way home from a bike ride today. She bought a bread box. It's cute. I kinda like it. Now our loaves of bread have a bread garage. It also means that if and when we move again, we'll need to have one almighty yard sale...or we'll need to get a bigger truck.
Your yard sale sounded great Mihun. It feels good to let some things go; even better to help out a good cause. Meeting neighbours and strangers and making friendly connections is what it's all about. A shop tour was a great idea! I bet your place was the most fascinating and popular stop in town. You seriously might have to host an open house every year.
We "may" have sold the 15 foot Tremblay that isn't even finished yet. It was the least expensive boat available, we will know better next week. If it does go, at least the buyer can choose what colour they want since the filler is still curing. $1000.
If you don't already know about this, you might want to try to find someone with a portable sawmill. These can often mill right on site where the tree was dropped, so you don't have to try to transport 15' to 20'+ logs, and they are more likely to be interested in small jobs than a big, fixed location mill.
Alternatively, depending on your lumber needs, and the relative availability of what you are looking for in the form of logs or finished stock, you might find it worth your time to acquire one yourself... I've used one from Hud-Son forest equipment, equivalent to their current Oscar 221 model, that would cut through spruce quite easily. (We use it with hardwood) You would just need a longer track, which is welded up from 2x2 angle iron, nothing fancy, so no need to buy extra track from the manufacturer.
If you do end up going that route, cookssaw.com has better blades. Shipping across the border might be interesting, though...
I have no affiliations with the above businesses other than using their products.
geez, every time I clean my garage, I get people stopping to see if it's a garage sail!
Mihun09- if you're using white spruce, I'd suggest getting it rough sawn into planks, then sticker it for about 8 months to a year, instructions here:
http://www.ont-woodlot-assoc.org/sw_airdry.html
If you try to use it green, it can twist, warp or split.
Mihun09- if you're using white spruce, I'd suggest getting it rough sawn into planks, then sticker it for about 8 months to a year, instructions here:
http://www.ont-woodlot-assoc.org/sw_airdry.html
If you try to use it green, it can twist, warp or split.
Yes, we need to air dry it to about 25% moisture content for bending. Finish size for the inwales is 1 1/8" x 7x8" at the thickest point and if we could even find it in a store it would be already milled thinner than we need. This is the closest yet we have actually gotten to finding the original wood species for the Morris.
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