Gary’s 2008 Garage Sale Challenge – Weeks 20 & 21

It appears that once again I’m playing catch-up, having to report the results from two weeks to be caught up with this years Challenge. This report will cover both week 20 and week 21.

The number of garage sales in Grand Forks the last few weeks has declined significantly resulting in a decreased number of listings. This smaller number of items found has also led to smaller dollar amounts in sales.

Because of this, last Saturday I chose to get up early and drive to Barnesville, Minnesota for their annual City Wide Garage Sale Extravaganza. It will likely turn out to be a good decision. I went to 54 garage sales in Barnesville. Those sales resulted in 40 new items that are currently listed on eBay.

If I had stayed in Grand Forks I would have gone to 14 fresh sales on Saturday. While it’s impossible to know what I might have bought, no regulars that I’ve talked to reported buying anything of any significance, so it’s unlikely I would have either.

All that said, here’s how things look at the end of week 20. You will notice that my mileage expense for last week was up significantly. That is due to the 220 mile round trip I made to Barnesville.

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/11	$193.46	$59.99	$35.35	$6.30	$18.04	$10.27	$0.00	$24.75	$150.37	$158.74
5/18	$923.70	$247.40	$59.55	$8.15	$109.00	$35.63	$0.00	$46.97	$911.80	$1070.54
5/26	$589.03	$298.12	$65.50	$10.40	$92.46	$15.59	$0.00	$59.09	$644.11	$1714.65
6/01	$348.10	$174.30	$30.70	$6.15	$50.69	$24.89	$0.00	$23.74	$386.25	$2100.88
6/8	No auctions - went fishing in Canada
6/15	$518.38	$57.34	$58.25	$10.25	$45.60	$27.83	$0.00	$36.87	$396.92	$2497.80
6/22	$215.92	$241.08	$21.25	$3.05	$56.44	$8.97	$0.00	$0.00	$367.29	$2865.09
6/29	$701.34	$139.91	$74.97	$12.35	$69.99	$25.42	$0.00	$49.49	$609.03	$3474.12
7/06	$935.78	$118.42	$41.75	$14.55	$78.21	$29.73	$0.00	$39.90	$850.06	$4324.18
7/13	$365.10	$125.98	$42.72	$5.35	$44.21	$16.12	$0.00	$21.71	$360.97	$4685.15
7/20	$366.07	$321.05	$89.50	$9.55	$86.45	$11.91	$0.00	$42.42	$447.59	$5132.44
7/27	$495.80	$469.26	$50.75	$11.35	$110.35	$22.73	$0.00	$52.02	$717.86	$5850.30
8/03	$278.74	$338.05	$45.00	$9.50	$81.83	$9.80	$0.00	$58.99	$411.67	$6261.97
8/10	$367.58	$210.45	$45.90	$11.15	$66.61	$19.32	$0.00	$38.38	$396.67	$6658.64
8/17	$542.88	$185.98	$52.10	$8.00	$69.00	$20.33	$0.00	$46.96	$532.47	$7191.11
8/24	$422.69	$492.56	$78.25	$23.85	$118.01	$17.30	$0.00	$54.04	$623.80	$7814.91
9.01	$914.03	$273.19	$108.00	$11.10	$104.60	$33.38	$0.00	$36.87	$893.27	$8708.18
9/07	$451.78	$55.46	$46.00	$5.40	$33.47	$21.81	$0.00	$24.75	$375.81	$9083.99
9/14	$319.86	$192.18	$52.00	$7.50	$54.72	$14.35	$0.00	$39.90	$343.57	$9427.56
9/21	$362.01	$117.18	$43.50	$12.65	$52.98	$18.03	$0.00	$31.82	$320.21	$9747.77
9/28			$124.85	$13.00				$133.83

There are forty-one qualifying items listed on eBay this week. One is a re-list two people have asked me to list again. The other forty are all new items, most of which were purchased in Barnesville on Saturday. Here’s what they are:

• Audubon Society Birds Of North America videos – a re-list
• 2 vintage opaque lamp shades – paid $.50
• 5 Taste Of Home Recipe Annuals – paid $3.75
• Nyal Lullit aspirin tin – paid $3.00
• 7 California Raisin figures – paid $1.75
• Mark Of The Lion 3 volume set books – paid $1.50
• Newpointe 911 5 volume set books – paid $2.50
• 290 plastic canvas patterns in 3 ring binder – paid $5.00
• 88 plastic canvas magazines – paid $2.00
• 22 Decorative Crochet magazines – paid $5.50
• 1975 Reader’s Digest songbook – paid $1.00
• Neilsville Minnesota Centennial Book – paid $1.00
• 12 volume set 1949 Childcraft books – paid $20.00
• 15 Heritage Press books (each listed individually) – paid $40.00
• Tales Told In Holland – paid $1.00
• Little Pictures From Japan – paid $1.00
• Nursery Friends From France – paid $1.00
• Plastic canvas fashion doll living room furniture booklet – paid $.10
• Sunbonnet Sue All Through The Year – paid $.50
• Make A Quilt In A Day Log Cabin Pattern book – paid $.50
• Set of Royal Albert flower of the month cups and saucers – paid $20.00
• Aladdin alacite lamp – paid $1.00
• Creative Knitting Magazines – paid $2.50
• Knit ‘N Style magazines – paid $1.25
• Knitter’s magazines – paid $2.25
• Interweave Knits magazine – paid $.25

In addition, I purchased the following books for Amazon during the last week.

• Foundations For Healing – Paperback – paid $.50
• Foundations For Healing – hardcover – paid $.50
• Detoxification – paid $.25
• Occupation: Nazi Hunter – paid $.25
• Women’s Health – paid $.50
• Rapid Interpretation Of EKG’s – paid $.50
• Doyle Brunson’s Super System: A Course In Power Poker – paid $1.00
• Kids (cookbook) – paid $.50
• The Image Of God – Gender Models In Judaeo-Christian Tradition – paid $1.00
• Basic Infection Control For Health Care Providers – paid $.50
• Marketing And Selling Your Homemade Jewelry – paid $.50