Finding Items to Resell

Some people will go from yard sales looking for bargains and not knowing what they are going to find. It is best to search online or in your local newspaper first. This will help you locate the specific items you are looking for.

When searching for garage, yard sales use keywords of garage, yard, rummage, community, church, neighborhood, large. Or you can use specific keywords for the items you are looking for.
Places to search for garage, yard sales are:
Garage Sales Yard Sales
Craigslist

Thrift stores is another great place to find items. I have found left over Estate items usually will go to thrift stores. If you donate to a thrift store I have found most give you a coupon to help save on your next purchases.
Here are a few thrift stores that are pretty common through out the USA.

Search these Thrift stores by entering in your zipcode.
Goodwill Thrift Store Locator
St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Stores Locator
Salvation Army Thrift Stores

Estate sales are another good way to find items to resell. Craigslist you can also find Estate sale under garage sales.
Estate Sales Network is located throughout the USA. Subscribing to them will send you a weekly update of Estate sales in your surrounding areas.
Estate Sales Network

If you sell books, DVDs, or any kind of media items Book Sale Finder is a good one that will send you updates of sales in your area.
Book Sale Finder

Help of a Sticky Note Can Get You things for Free

As alot of us have subscriptions to articles that appeal to us. I just read the article from Frugal Hacks that I found very interesting to share.

Never leave home with out a sticky note pad. Keep a pad of sticky notes in you vehicle, never know when they may be helpful for finding resellable items.

In this article Frugal Hacks had noticed a yard sale that she stopped by, but to find no one around. She got out a sticky note and wrote note with her name, phone number and explaining that she was interested in some of the items she had seen.

About half an hour after I arrived home a stranger called and said she found my note, she was done with the yard sale, and a local second hand store in town was coming to pick everything up, if I got there first, I could take whatever I wanted, it was all free.

She headed back to the left over yard sale and brought home:
To read all she brought home go to Frugal Hacks Stick-It-Note

Hope you find this article as interesting as I did. Please take the time to leave a comment on my blog about this article.