Jersha and Dup

It’s yard sale season again (finally)! That means Phillip and I will be heading out every weekend searching for items to resell. This might sound strange but it’s both a hobby and side business that we have going. We go to yard sales, thrift stores and estate sales, buy items that we know are worth money and flip them on Yardsellr, Bonanza, Craigslist or eBay. It’s really fun to hunt for “treasure” together and it makes a nice side income that we can put back for date nights or emergencies. You might think that you need to know a lot about antiques or collectibles to flip items. That’s simply not the case. At lot of times, it just takes a small list of items to look for to get your thrifting senses tingling. That’s what this list is all about. It’s 5 common yard sale or thrift store items that you can buy cheap and resell for a nice profit.

1 – Tickle Me Elmos

These are usually tossed in with the toys at yard sales and thrift stores. I typically see them marked $1-2. These typically sell for $15 and up! The best sellers are the Tickle Me Elmo Extremes that say TMX on the bottom. These are the ones that fall down laughing, roll around a bit and then stand back up. As long as it is in good working condition, you can expect $20-25 out of these adorable toys.

Thrift Price: $1-2

Resale Price: $15-25 [...]

Where on earth have we been for the past week? Our lease is ending next month and we are considering moving to a cheaper and smaller apartment. We’ve spent hours and hours driving around looking for apartments, touring apartments, calling phone numbers listed in the classifieds, etc. We’ve also been calculating how much it will cost us to move. At the moment, we’re pretty sure we’re going to move. The new apartment would be 200 square feet smaller (eek!) but we’d be saving at least $50 per month. On our tight budget, that’s pretty good.

Have you ever moved to save money? Share your story or some tips on moving. We’ll be back tomorrow with something fun and useful.

Wow, I can’t believe that summer is almost here, can you? In just a few short weeks, kids will be out of school and looking for fun things to do. There’s the old standby of swimming but unless you own a pool or live somewhere with free pool access, that can get expensive. You could let your kids veg out watching TV or playing video games but what about something active and fun? Oh and did I mention FREE? [...]

As you can tell by the name of our blog, we’re geeks. We LOVE superheroes and have seen all the recent superhero movies. This year is particularly exciting for us because there are three huge superhero movies coming out – The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises (Batman). The first movie, The Avengers, came out today and we went to see the 9am showing. We were going to see the midnight showing but we knew it would be 1-really busy, 2-more expensive, and 3-too late coming home. Even though we can stay up until 2am, we decided against it because we were bringing our nephews and we didn’t like the idea of them being up at 2am.

So we got up early (yes, 8am is early for us second shifters) and piled in the car. We ate breakfast on the way and we settled into our seats about 5 minutes before the movie started. The first few previews were great – Disney’s Brave, The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. Then, we saw some previews for movies that looked mildly funny/exciting but still not great – The Expendibles 2 and The Dictator. Finally, we saw some previews for movies that looked too dark for my tastes – Prometheus and Battleship. Most of the previews seemed to fit the theme of the movie we were about to watch and seeing the other 2 superhero movie previews made us that much more excited for the movie to start. [...]

There are lots of services or gadgets that claim to save you money or make your life easier but very few follow through. Here are 3 services that we absolutely can’t live without because they save us so much time and money. [...]