What makes me successful at yard sale-ing? It really comes
down to the fact that I've spent literally hundreds of hours wading
through other people's "stuff" in their front yards,
garages and porches. There's nothing like experience to teach
you a think or two about what works and what doesn't!
Let me give you an example of a successful yard sale find that
happened to me. I was aimlessly looking at a "glassware table."
There in the midst of the Flintstone's Jelly Jar Glasses was one
lone champagne flute. It caught my attention, looking remarkably
like the Waterford glasses I bought in Ireland before I was married
(i.e. when money was plentiful!). I picked it up, checked it out.
. .lo and behold, it held not a Waterford stamp on it, but Galway
(the sister glassware to Waterford).
The entire table was marked $1.00 each. I tried hard to contain
myself and went to pay for the item. The woman running the sale
asked, "
