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Garage Sales Are Like Chicken Soup For The Consumer Soul

These days we all seem like we’ve just collected far too much stuff and it’s crowding our lives in a way that we might not like. We act like a bunch of little worker bees flying about bringing things back to the hive that we thought we needed but discovered we only wanted. Finding out that letting go of things we thought we needed through garage sales are like chicken soup for the consumer soul, to be honest.

Generally speaking, almost anybody who was being honest would say that it’s probably the men in a family that have the most difficulty selling off something through a garage sale. They may have a treasured — though completely unused — black electric guitar they bought when they convinced themselves they were going to take lessons. Still, they’ve convinced themselves they need it, right?

What’s actually needed, even most men would admit, is an occasional garage sale to flush out a whole raft of things that are just crowding not only the home but also the life. These things aren’t usually needed (though they might still be wanted) and making sure that the husband participates in the selling off of these things might actually provide a little entertainment, as well.

After all, it’s probably his fault that every one of the home storage shelves in the basement, the garage and in more than a few of the bedrooms that the kids used to live in prior to moving off to college are now stacked with more stuff than might be found in the fabled cave of the 40 thieves of Ali Baba fame. Making him do penance by cleaning out that cave can be a good thing for most any wife.

Keep in mind that it isn’t mandatory that every single thing of any kind of value be disposed of at a garage sale. For example, selling off the only Cuisinart food processor in the house — before getting another food processor — is a surefire way of ensuring that all those healthy meals that were being eaten soon fall by the wayside. Either get a new one beforehand or don’t sell the old one off.

In truth, there are probably thousands of things around the home that belong at a garage sale but we always seem to find reasons to never let them go. Maybe it’s a tennis racket or a bowling ball that we once thought we were going to use when we took up the sport or it might be something else. Don’t be sentimental about those kinds of things when some money can be made from them.

This isn’t to say that things of great sentimental value should be cast aside like a used up tennis ball, but it does mean that inventing reasons for keeping stuff laying around the house — when there are plenty of people out there just dying to get that stuff for whatever reason — isn’t the greatest way to go, either. So, holding an occasional garage sale can be lucrative and therapeutic, right?

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