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| Good Advice on Finding American Girl Dolls for Cheap Online
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Added on 10/25/08 by betsy
I have some advice for you guys if you are hunting online for American Girl items on the cheap. My daughter has 7 of the dolls and I also buy them all the time to sell. The most I have ever paid for a doll is $30, but that was for Lindsey the first girl of the year which I sold for $250. The last one I bought was Elizabeth for $1, the lady didn't care because her overindulgent mother-in-law had bought it as a gift for her daughter. People always ask me how do you find American Girl stuff at garage sales? Well, this is how: 1. Craigslist, if you just go onto Craigslist for your local area and click the link for "for sale" type "American Girl" into the search box at the top of the page. You will find American Girl dolls not only for sale in the "items for sale" section but also the garage sale section. Since Craigslist is free and newspapers charge per word some people go into great detail in their listings and by typing "American Girl" into that top search box you will pull up all the listings that have American Girl stuff. Another bonus of finding it at a garage sale, no shipping cost! People also are selling American Girl stuff in the classified and while some is kinda high Ebay priced, I found a woman selling 6 dolls and an Armoire for $125 for everything, she was a mom who thought played with dolls. . . (read post) |
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| How to Clean American Girl Doll Skin
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Added on 08/23/08 by Betsy
Dont you just hate it when you see that promising peek of tan cloth body at a garage sale and get all excited only to find the poor American Girl doll you have pulled out of the stuffed animal bin looks like it should be begging for 35 cents a day on late night tv?
How do you remove that gross layer of kid grub from AG skin?
I use Magic Erasers, they are totally remove the gross grimey stuff leaving clean limbs behind.
How do you fix their hair?
My mother advises washing doll hair in fabric softener so I am going to give it a whirl on the old Pleasant Company Molly I bought for a dollar today. I will let you know what I find.
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| Garage Sale Season Ends and the Holidays Begin
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Added on 11/03/07 by Betsy
This is my favorite time of year. After the Dirty Nurse costume is packed away for another year and before Aunt Trudy, the original Dirty Nurse shows up for Thanksgiving, it's clean out the house time.
The time of year when people call Empire carpet to freshen up for the Aunt Trudy. And how can sweet Aunt Trudy squeal with jealousy over the new Berber if she can't see it?
Time to take everything to Goodwill.
For the Ebay seller it is when we kick it into high gear, clear our calendars and hang out all day at the local thrift shop. It does seem strange that people would wait until the frost hits to clean out their house, but with holiday fast approaching Goodwill will fill with large toys, TVs, stuffed animals and clothing as people make room for the new.
Any mom looking at the Toys R Us Wish Book becomes increasingly clausterphobic at the idea of being surrounded with additional hunks of purple, pink and blue plastic.
Your job as a Suburban Recycling Professional is to turn those forgotten 2006 Little Tikes kitchens, American Girl dolls and Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouses and market yesterday's trash as Christmas morning treasure. Good luck people.
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| Great American Yard Sale Plan of Attack 2007
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Added on 08/06/07 by Betsy
Superbowl Sunday is right around the corner people. Time to break out the sleeping bags and bag lady carts.
THE GREAT AMERICAN YARD SALE!!!!
Every year I have a plan of attack, wake at 4am and stand in line for 5 hours waiting for the gates of junker's paradise to swing wide....and every year I am inevitably dissapointed with what I find.
The real fun of this massive yard sale is not in the digging and pillaging through mounds of other people's crap- for me that's just another day at the office.
All I got last year was a Playmobil Mansion, Crib Tents and some well loved pajama bottoms (OK I know that's a little gross but they had South Park print).
The best part is being in line.
When I tell the other mommies at Tae Kwon Do or swmming lessons what I do, they generally say, "isn't that interesting," then take the first opportunity to politely scooch to another seat.
If you can tolerate the smell, standing in a line of 600 people at 7am standing on blacktop in 80 degree heat and Chicago humidity will be the place to be on August 18th.
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| Tiffany at a Garage Sale
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Added on 06/23/07 by Betsy
Now when you read the title to this listing you were probably thinking...big news Betsy... and "I think we're alone now" single in someone's free box.
But no. That is not the Tiffany I am speaking of.
Came across my first blue box garage sale Tiffany item today.
Normally, when I come across good stuff at garage sales I try not to get too attached or excited. I don't ask questions about authenticity. I don't do anything to let on that I will not be parted from the item in my hand.
It is hard to be detached and disinterested in Tiffany.
"Why are you selling Tiffany at a garage sale?"
I had to ask especially since it didn't look like a Tiffany in the box sort of neighborhood.
"Wedding present from my mother in law. They are her taste not mine. Two bucks."
Funny isn't it. Mother-in-laws can't win. I know mine can't.
My wedding present was a homemade wreath with a jam packed Walmart potpourri center, wrapped in pink netting to allow for scent escape and topped off with a beady bow.
I thought about telling this chick she needed to practice more gratitude and that she could probably sell these for more than two bucks.
So now Karma came around and hooked me up with a belated wedding present.
I haven't decided whether to sell them or keep them. They are. . . (read post) |
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| The Real American Girl Outlet: 2 days ONLY!
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Added on 06/10/07 by betsy
So why did my trip to American Girl world suck so much? Where were the awesome deals? Apparently the company reserves all of the factory screw ups and customer returns (in other words the good deals) for their annual sale.
This year it is on July 21st and 22nd, inconveniently located in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin. Other things to enjoy in Osh Kosh: Burger King and (tell me you didn't see this one coming) the Osh Kosh B'Gosh Outlet. I asked the clerk at the AG store when people start lining up. I wasn't shocked to learn people line up the day before and sleep out around here people do that for decent garage sales. I did a search for the hell of it on Ebay and was surprised to see several sellers hawking get in early tickets to the sale.
The sale starts at either 8 or 9 , but for a mere $120 a person you can go at 7am. So why does AG hoard all of the good crap for one day when mommies are driving up to Osh Kosh right and left to be disappointed by their "outlet"? For charity. The Madison Children's Museum gets the proceeds from the sale as well as the few 7am tickets being sold.
My sister/apprentice scheduled her daughters party for that day. I could find an excuse but when my sister/apprentice comes over on the 23rd and can't find a seat without moving Marisol's wave runner she may be suspicous. If you go email me and let. . . (read post) |
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| Route 34 Garage Sale next week
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Added on 06/06/07 by Betsy
Get out your map, hop in your pick-up with the homemade bed and get ready to haul your treasure home.
At least 50 pristine miles of my fellows from the circuit, the Goodwill cicuit, will be looking for gold along the Route 34 Garage Sales next weekend. I'm not expecting much except used Barbies with bad hair cuts and kool-aid dye jobs, but to be among my people I'll do it.
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| Karma As Co-pilot
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Added on 05/31/07 by Betsy
Yesterday's post about the universe using Goodwill and garage sales to offer it's wares came true yet again.
I have been collecting baby crap for a woman who is broke and didn't even have the cash for a car seat. She works at a retirement home full time for seven dollars an hour and has a 2 month old girl.
Two weeks ago a friend of my mothers-Pat-who works at the same retirement home called and asked me to collect stuff for her, she had gone in with her coworkers and raised $20.
All they wanted was a car seat to keep the baby safe and free up mom to go to the grocery store alone with the baby. I took this as a challenge.
My 2 year old had a 1 year old highly rated car seat she was to big for, so I cheated a little and passed that along. I asked did she have a bouncer, swing ya know all that junk the rest of America takes for granted.
No, Pat said she has nothing. She works all the time and her mother watches her daughter. She financially supports her mom, herself and her daughter on 7 bucks an hour.
So Karma and I went shopping.
Saturday in mid- May is prime sale season. On this particular day there were 29 subdivision garage sales, each sale having 11-110 sale houses.
I started at 7:30. Now one of the problems with starting early is that people. . . (read post) |
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| Newer Plushies to Collect and Sell as a Lot
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Added on 01/18/07 by Betsy
Right now I have about 36 Care Bears in my house. I am not bragging. I know that is weird. But they have been selling thus I am driven to constantly replenish my stash.
Typically I put 12 or more of them in a lot, I figure the more variety of characters there are the more bidder I will hook. I will sell the 12 for $20-40. Keep in mind I pay 50 cents a piece so that's not all that bad- not super great but it's a living- sort of.
Teletubbies also sell but those are logical lots, one of each of the talking Tubsters. If you unzip their back you can remove the talk box and they come out of the washing machine looking new- you need to put them in a pillow case so their rubber heads don't get all marked up.
Vermont Teddy Bears - they are so ridiculously expensive new and they are not worth a ton on Ebay unless- and I have found this several times-people get them as gifts then throw them fully dressed with all accessories straight into a garage sale or donation bin.
Then you can get $30 a piece for them. Otherwise I sell them in a lot of 3 or more. Expect to get $12-15 for 3 naked bears or $25-30 for 3 dressed bears.
Build a Bear Workshop- now you all know that I was the first one to call the Mumble craze- I just knew it! I hope you all followed my advice and invested there.
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