Another reason to buy at garage sales during the recession
You probably already know that garage sales are a great place to pick up cheap items when times are tight. However, this isn’t the only reason to see what you can pick up at a garage sale as a sneaky way of beating the recession.
Garden tools are common items sold off at garage sales, especially estate sales, and growing your own vegetables is a way of making the money go further, as well as being a way to get fresher vegetables and some good exercise. And the really good thing about old-fashioned garden tools is that they were built to last, so even if they look a bit rusty, they’re probably still able to do the job.
Of course, like everything else at a garage sale, you should check the item carefully. If, say, a spade is really rusty and has a crack in it, don’t buy it; it will break after a month of hard use or sooner.
A quick shopping list of garden tools you’re likely to find at yard sales:
- Spades, shovels, hoes and forks: things with long handles.
- Wheelbarrows – if you’re lucky!
- Watering cans and spray packs (always wash these out carefully before use)
- Pots and tubs for plants
- Pruning shears, secateurs and hedge clippers
- Odd items, such as foam mats to kneel on while weeding, strange-shaped tools for digging dandelions and other long-rooted weeds out
In general, you are more likely to find hand-powered items for sale at garage sales rather than mechanical ones, but you never know your luck, as is always the way of the garage sale world.
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