I used to think that having a garage sale was a great way to make a little extra cash (just enough for my husband and I to go to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner :) yum). I thought it was worth all of the time spent gathering my stuff up and setting it up outside, sitting all day trying to sell it and then at the end of having to put whatever was left away. Every year I ended up having more to put out because I would have to put the previous garage sale leftovers with all of the new stuff I wanted to get rid of.
And then my neighbor told me about www.lupuspickup.org. Now, maybe everyone already knows about this. Maybe I'm the last one to find out. All I know is thanks to www.lupuspickup.org I will never have a garage sale again.
All you have to do is take ANYTHING you have that you want to get rid of, and when I say ANYTHING I mean ANYTHING. You can go to their website and schedule a pickup online, or you can call the Lupus Pickup phone number at 1-888-44-LUPUS. You schedule the pickup, leave all of your stuff outside your garage door or front door at 7am the morning they are coming for the pickup and they come by at some point that day and take it away for you.
It is so simple, and there are so many benefits.
1. You are donating to a good cause.
2. It's a tax write off (this is my favorite benefit).
3. You don't have to set everything up for a garage sale and sit there all day (sometimes in very hot weather or muggy, rainy weather), and you don't have to put anything away. They will take anything you want to give them.
4. This is a great opportunity to do some spring cleaning and "decluttering."
No more garage sales for me!
2 comments:
I hear you on the putting all the garage sale items away, but truthfully, I loved all the moments we sat outside together chatting away.
Come to think of it, I'm going to have to agree with you on that one.
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