Couple Waited For Half Off Day At An Estate Sale To Get A $75 Tree For Half Price, But The Stained Glass Pumpkin They Hoped Was Still There Was Already Gone

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Colorful floral stained glass like the pumpkin piece a couple hoped to find at an estate sale.

Estate sale regulars know the trick: if a pricey item survives the first day, wait for the half off day and the price drops. That was the plan for a reselling couple on the floridapickers876 YouTube channel, Stacy and Travis, who spent a Saturday morning working a community garage sale and then an estate sale … Read more

More Than 70% Of Parents In A 2018 Survey Said Kids Should Stay As Busy As Possible, Yet More Than Half Of Those Same Parents Said All The Activities Leave Them Exhausted

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A wall calendar on a desk representing a family schedule packed with kids activities.

What if the secret to a better family life is doing less, not more? That is the argument from Maddie, the creator behind the MadisunGray YouTube channel, who makes videos about what she calls creating a really cool life offline. Call it slowness, simplicity or minimalism, she says, but the heart of it is a … Read more

Neighbors Held A Street Wide Yard Sale And A Plywood Boat Priced At The Please Do Not Make Me Hang This Back Up Price Became Garden Art

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An old boat resting in a green field, like a big item left in the yard.

Some yard sales are about the money. This one, by the creator’s own account, was more about the street. Peter Brown promised his viewers an update after a street-wide neighborhood yard sale, and a couple of weeks later he reported that it went over great. “Had a really nice time,” he says. He met neighbors … Read more

Reseller Spent $8,000 Cash On One Rainy Garage Sale Collection Of NES And Sega Games And Sold It For $13,080 After Fees

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A vintage Sega Game Gear handheld console, a retro gaming find.

It was pouring rain at a small citywide garage sale in the middle of nowhere, and most shoppers had stayed home. Video game reseller Chase After The Picks showed up anyway, with a friend and a van and, as it happened, $8,000 in cash left over from a deal that had fallen through the week … Read more

Fishing Rod Builder Offered A Whole Pile Of Gear For $150 At His Blowout Sale And The Picker Handed Over An Extra $20 Because It Felt Unfair

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A fishing rod silhouetted at golden hour beside the water.

Nobody was making him do it. The deal was done, the cash was counted, and the seller had already agreed to $150 for a big pile of gear. But picker North Idaho Pickers stopped, pulled out another $20, and said it did not feel right to walk away paying only $150. The moment came at … Read more

Vintage Seller Dropped A McCoy Piece From Around $100 To $20 Because Its Lid Was Missing And A Couple Plans To Turn It Into A Planter

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Ceramic jars with lids lined up neatly on a shelf.

A vendor at a big vintage market in Kentucky watched a $100 piece turn into a $20 piece the moment he noticed its lid was gone. A couple who run an eBay store, Part Time Picker, were standing at his booth at the right moment, and they happily took the discount. The vendor told them … Read more

Resellers Paid $3 For An Empty Pokemon Box At A Random Garage Sale On Their Way Home And It Already Sold For $400

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A collection of trading cards with a Pokeball, like a childhood card collection.

The weekend had been a bust. After a Saturday of overpriced tables and a flea market they called the worst in the universe, the resellers behind The Dumont Boys sat down to biscuits and gravy at a diner and figured the haul was over. Then two members of the crew spotted a random garage sale … Read more

Yellow Cake Mix, Chocolate Chips, A Stick Of Butter And Two Eggs Became The Cheapest Easiest Christmas Cookie Bar One Family Swears Saved Them Hundreds And Lots Of Tears

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A plate of freshly baked cookies, like a homemade batch shared with neighbors.

One reader of The Minimal Mom says a simple cake mix cookie bar “saved us hundreds of dollars and lots of tears” at Christmastime. It needs a bag of chocolate chips, a box of cake mix, a stick of butter and two eggs, and it started as a random recipe the creator shared five years … Read more

Why You Forget What You Were Cleaning The Second You Walk Through A Doorway And The 15 Minute Timer Test A Minimalist With ADHD Uses To Fix It

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A clear hourglass timer, standing in for a short timed burst of focus.

You head into the kitchen to put away a book, and by the time you get there you cannot remember why you came. Then you spot a stray sock, then a dirty cup, and suddenly you are looping from room to room without finishing a single thing. Becky Truda of Minimal Ease says you are … Read more

Woman Sharing One Room With Her Daughter In Her Mother’s NYC Apartment Had 48 Hours To Empty Two Closets Not Painted In 50 Years And Found Her Grandfather’s Old Tools

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A weathered vintage leather suitcase on a shelf, like heirlooms found in old closets.

Imagine having 48 hours to completely empty two closets that have not seen a coat of paint in about 50 years, while living in one room of your mother’s New York City apartment with your daughter. That was the challenge Geraldine Bien set for herself, and she took the whole thing on camera. The apartment … Read more