Garage Sale

I have accumulated quite a bit of stuff in the past 17 years in the US. I decided I needed to start getting rid of the 'lee lee kok kok' (translation: miscellaneous) stuff before my move. Originally, I thought I could bring many of my electronic items over but Chris informed me that Australia was on a 240v power (vs. 110v in the US/Taiwan).....!!!! Argh...which means, most of the electronics that do not accommodate the dual voltage had to go. I dug around my kitchen and found quite a bit of electronic items like: rice cooker, electrical hotpot, George Foreman grill, food dehydrator, juicer, etc.... Hehe, luckily, I can offload some of those to Cynthia so she could make use of it. Others would have be to sold. I also rummaged around my storage and found an assortment of things to sell as well - first gen Playstation plus dancing pads, roller blades, extra chair/stools, etc.

My friends had a block sale (their entire block of neighbors coordinated to have garage sales) this past weekend and they were nice to set up a big long table on their lawn just for my things. The garage sale was scheduled for 8am but I was told that people start coming in super early around 7:30ish to scout out the best things. I got there around 6:45am to setup and before I could properly price my items, people started dropping by and asking how much this and that was. Since this was my first garage sale, I didn't have a clue how to properly price my things but luckily my friends were there to help me out. The most expensive item I priced was $20 for the food dehydrator which no one wanted to buy. (FYI: food dehydrator is for drying out food to make things like dried fruit.) Other things ranged from 25 cents to $5. Garage sale hunters are typically there for the bargains and bargain they did! Despite all the bargain prices, I still netted $130! I was quite happy with the outcome since if I hadn't sold those things, I would have eventually had to donate it. Glad to see at least some people can feel like they got a bargain and benefit from the stuff that's been in hiding for 2+ years and I get some extra cash! :)




The stuff on the lawn are all my stuff to be sold.

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