The Pros and Cons to Having a Yard Sale

Unless you are having an estate sale or selling at least 90% of the furniture you own, it is unlikely that you will make any much money at a yard sale. But I'm not saying not to have one. I love a good bargain. If having a yard sale is the only way you are going to purge twenty years worth of built-up clutter, than do it!

Let us start by taking a look at the numbers. Say for argument's sake that I made a whopping $600 at my last yard sale. Wow! That is a lot of money. I don't make $600 a day writing for Associated Content. I just sat out there (in the hot summer sun) for five hours and racked in the dough as people looking for lost treasures came and relieved me of my junk. That's $120 an hour. Wahoo!

What about the hours it took to gather the junk from around the house? Oh yeah, but it was only fifteen minutes a day. Fifteen minutes a day for the past month is seven and a half hours. So now we're up to twelve and a half hours. So, I still made $48 an hour.

What about the three hours the night before the yard sale when I sorted everything by category and labeled them with price stickers? Fifteen and a half hours. Still that's $38.71 an hour.