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Surprisingly, he advises giving Craigslist a miss, unless you're on the hunt for specific hard-to-find items. A couple more valuable tips:

• Create a Gmail e-mail account and subscribe to [your local Freecycle] mailing list, then set up a series of Gmail filters to forward certain messages to your real e-mail account. Thus, only pertinent offers reach you.


• If you join your “Friends of the Library” organization, for a nominal fee you can attend the sales before the general public does, often a day or two beforehand.

For more tips, including a truly exhaustive forensic analysis of how to work the garage sale circuit, check out the full post on Thingamababy.

Via YoKiddo