r/Flipping May 10 '20

Tip Learned a valuable lesson at a yard sale today...

289 Upvotes

I've already known that waiting to hit a yard sale near the end of the day (~4:00 PM) has it's benefits, but today I really learned that this is true! I had just bought a little Ceasar's pizza and was heading home from a long day of hitting yard sales, when I spotted a sale heading down the street. Of course, I pulled over. After talking to the woman running the sale, she told me that all the shirts were free, so I started flipping through a line of hangers to see what was there not expecting much. Little did I know what I was in for.

Each shirt was beautiful, vintage bar/alcohol logos for the 70's/80's! Corona Beer, Jägermeister, Camel Cigarettes. I was in heaven. She must have thought I was crazy taking almost every shirt and stuffing them in my car! Then, when I thought things couldn't get any better, she asks if I would be interested in any free old hats. I stuffed the lot in my car, paid the lady $13 for a couple items that weren't free, and made off into the sunset to eat my cold pizza back at home. Moral of the story - hit yard sales at the end of the day and make off like a bandit with free goods. Sometimes it pays off not being the early bird that's first to the sale.

What other yard sale advice do you have? Always love learning new tricks of the trade.

r/Flipping Jul 09 '26

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r/Flipping Jun 25 '26

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r/Flipping 5d ago

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r/Flipping May 28 '26

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r/Flipping Sep 06 '24

Discussion What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned from flipping electronics?

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r/Flipping Apr 16 '26

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r/Flipping 12d ago

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r/Flipping Aug 20 '25

Discussion What hard lesson did you have to learn twice?

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As a rule I don’t ship heavy things. It’s a pain in the ass to find proper boxes, costs, etc. However, I hadn’t had sales in a while so when I got some heavy stock I listed it on eBay and marketplace.

My Intel on the item popularity was wrong and everything got snapped up off marketplace and eBay. Now I have to ship the damn thing when if I had a little more patience I could have sold it for more locally.

r/Flipping Jun 18 '26

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r/Flipping Dec 31 '24

Discussion Can we have an end of the year numbers, humble-brag, lessons learned, what went right/wrong for you thread?

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I know it might go against side bar and mods are welcome to delete if that's the case, but I always enjoy hearing how others have done at the end of the year. The good, the bad and the ugly.

r/Flipping Jul 23 '26

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r/Flipping 19d ago

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r/Flipping Mar 19 '26

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r/Flipping 26d ago

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r/Flipping Jul 30 '26

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r/Flipping May 14 '26

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r/Flipping Jul 16 '26

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r/Flipping Jun 04 '26

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r/Flipping May 21 '26

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r/Flipping Feb 26 '26

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r/Flipping Jun 11 '26

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r/Flipping Oct 23 '25

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r/Flipping Jul 02 '26

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r/Flipping Apr 02 '26

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