Quick question on locating garage sales

[washingtonian]

Hi I just have a question, do most of you use craigslist or some other website to help you find garage sales or do you just drive around neighborhoods looking for signs? If there is a good website for locating such sales I would love to know what it is, thanks

 

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[diggummup]

Craigslist, the newspaper and down here in Florida we have a local mailing rag that comes weekly called "The Flyer" that lists them also. Usually when we are out going to ones we have found listed, we will see signs for others that were not listed and we stop by those too.

 

[NaturalJWL]

Craigslist is where I start, unless I notice a good church having a sale. Good neighborhoods!

 

[jnkhntr]

You might try this site but it may depend on your location.

http://www.garagesalecow.com

 

[My Precious]

Our local newspaper has a garage sale section in the classified. They run a decent deal for advertising and also provide signs for each sale. They also are on-line and post the same sales the evening before so I go there and pick the sales, and make a route the night before I go. There are also local interest/advertising papers called the "Free Trader" and "Pennysaver" that list sales.

 

[spartacus53]

I either drive around and happen upon one, or get a local paper for the listings.

 

[savant365]

Most folks around here still put them in the paper but they only run Wed. Thur. and Fri. If I am going, I go through the ads and write them down in order of location so I don't run back and forth across town 10 times. I start at the one that has what I am interested in first and then go from there.

HH Charlie

 

[idigdirt]

Find your local newspaper on-line and go to classifieds and then to garage sales. They should list everything you would want to know. If it also maps the sales out for you, your in luck! Now, go get em' kid....

 

[diggummup]

Also remember, once you've looked over which ones you want to go to, it is best to get there early as soon as it starts or a few minutes before. There are actually people that do this for a living I have found out, so they are out looking for good deals early, early as well as the end of the day offering to buy up whats left for little or nothing.

 

[Unicorn]

Yes...all good suggestions.......local newspaers......and get their early.

 

[Marty-Graw]

if you want to try and beat the pros to the punch.....try going by the address the evening before and asking if you might look at the items ......... this might be cosidered unethical to some but it isnt cheating anyone....tell them you have to work in the morning

 

[Winchester52fan]

Where-ever i am,such as when i'm on vacation,i look in the local paper for suitable yard/garage sales.Then i enter the address in my GPS and put the suitable symbol and i find them according to the symbol.It works great,way better than random driving around in towns i don't really know well.I have scored my best finds this way.That GPS is the BEST $150.00 i have ever spent.It's a Lowrance XOG,incredible detail.

 

[cyberdan]

That GPS is the BEST $150.00 i have ever spent.It's a Lowrance XOG,incredible detail.

I second that emotion!!
If my GPS were to break during a saturday morning shopping trip I would just stop and go home.

I think mine was around $200 a MIO MOVE and it speaks in dozens of languages. Even english with an Australian accent (male or female)

Funny thing, "she" really does not know how to pronounce local street names and I catch myself saying them wrong sometimes.

 

[allen]

mostly signs and the newspaper.

 

[goldinmypan]

The trouble with following signs is that a lot of them are ghost. Last weeks or older. Waste a lot of time chasing them.