Making up my garage sale list

I have a feeling this is going to be the season for garage sale deals.   With the economy tanking, people are going to want to buy and sell stuff to make and save money.  I'm planning on holding one to get rid of all the baby stuff in my basement and miscellaneous other crap I don't see a future need for. 

I'm also going to power yard sale, in hopes of reducing my Christmas/Birthday costs for the next year.   I can't make a list for those things, mainly I just have to keep my eyes open for stuff I know my nearest and dearest would appreciate.  My list includes things like:

• Boys' navy cotton dress pants sizes 6/7, 7/8 (Max has to wear a uniform next year)
• White/light blue dress shirts or polos, sizes 6/7, 7/8
• Canning jars
• Pressure cooker
• Cookie sheets
• Wooden spoons
• Bread bowl (Dad gave me one!)
• Fabric
  
• Other sewing odd 'n' ends
• Boots (Boys' sizes 1 or 2, women's size 5 waterproof)
• Small glass plastic bowls (I have a set that is slightly smaller than the average  soup bowl that I use a lot.  Max has broken too many of them in the last couple of years; I'm down to 6 or so and dropping.)
• Axe
• Tomato cages any/or garden trellising
• Large flower pots for container gardening
• Metal bike basket
• Snow brush with scraper (2 of mine broke this winter.  I'm now using the cheap looking scraper J. got as a gift from work along with what remains of the brush after the scraper end broke.  This is passive frugality at its finest.)
• Dog toys
• Dog leashes
  

It is also my intention to get a much larger freezer, approximately 20 cubic feet, to use to store my CSA abundance for next winter.  This I estimate will cost roughly $600, but I haven't gone to physically price them yet to see if there are better deals, on scratch and dent, say.  I'm waiting for my tax refund to come before I do that.   I have been debating purchasing a wood stove, mostly to alleviate anxiety about my complete dependence on the gas companies for my heating, but I think installing one might be too complicated, given our lack of a chimney.  Since I'm not really intending on using it, except in a heating emergency, it's probably not an essential purchase.

tags: garage sales  thrift  great recession