I spent my afternoon staffing The Monroe Evening News booth at Monroe’s Largest Garage Sale in the MB&T Expo Center in Monroe, Mich.
This was quite an experience! There were lots of people shopping. But my co-workers who had worked at the inaugural sale in March said it there were even bigger crowds at the first [...]

This post is for my readers in and near Monroe, Mich.
Monroe’s Largest Garage Sale and Flea Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Oct. 31 at the Monroe Bank & Trust Expo Center at the Monroe County Fairgrounds, 3775 S. Custer Rd., Monroe, Mich. This is the second such sale and [...]

This garage sale tip of the week comes from Angie’s List:
Organize your inventory. A few months before your sale, designate a spot in your house for the things you’ll want to sell and let your family members know about it. As time goes by, the spot will fill up with things around the house that [...]

Some of my best finds at the garage sales this summer have been craft supplies. But you have to keep in mind that shopping for craft supplies at a garage or rummage sale takes a different mentality than at the craft stores.
Let’s say you need one yard of fabric in an exact color to create [...]

One of my friends told me her family has a unique twist on the Christmas gift exchange this year. Everything in the gift exchange has to be purchased at a garage sale or second-hand.
When she told me about that gift exchange theme, we had bumped into each other at a garage sale and she was [...]

The Monroe’s Largest Garage Sale and Flea Market will hold its next sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Oct. 31 at the Monroe Bank & Trust Expo Center at the Monroe County Fairgrounds, 3775 S. Custer Rd., Monroe, Mich.
The first such sale was held March 29 – and was a sold-out event with [...]

If you plan to sell any kind of electronic gadget at a garage sale – be it a coffee maker, vacuum cleaner, dough mixer, or video game – then you need to first go through your junk drawer or cabinet and find the instruction manual for that gadget. Then you want to visibly provide that [...]

One of the reasons I started this blog is that I was tired of reading personal finance and frugal living writers who write for a national audience say do this or do that and — their tips were not going to work for those of us who live in Monroe, Mich.
That is why, when I [...]

I did a post earlier this year about the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s new resale rules as to how they apply to second-hand stores.
Now the buzz is: What does this mean for garage sale sellers and buyers, especially when it comes to kids’ stuff?
While I don’t have the answers, I can point you to the [...]

Make a list that you’ll keep in your purse or wallet – whatever tote you carry to the garage sales and second-hand stores – and write down the clothing sizes your children are wearing this fall.
Then when you see kids’ jeans, school uniforms or dressy clothes at the Mom 2 Mom sales, pull that list [...]