Debbie @oriolsusy--I just found this antique romantique metal bed frame in the house's under-eave storage...the foot-board is aprox 4 ft tall and the headboard aprox 5 ft tall....most likely a double, cause a full size was the biggest beds made...I'm havin' a huge sale June 15th...nothing is coming back in the house!
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smittycdm As a financial consultant & CPA for the past 30 yrs., I have had to close 5 or more businesses, including retail companies. Regarding pricing, this has been true the entire time: brand new merchandise, including upscale women's & men's clothing & accessories; state of the art office equipment, computers, fitness equipment, etc., if you get more than 10 cents on the dollar, consider yourself extremely fortunate. In this economy, maybe 5 cents. New regular items, not antique which may have a greater value. Heartbreaking.

We had a garage sale last fall with 12 other families; it started at 7 on a Saturday, one day only (our first GS.) We started out with 32 items, one of which was my dad's old chain saw. We priced it at $10. A man came by & whispered that we needed to raise the price to $25. Literally 5 seconds later another man came by & bought it!

*Don't let anyone in your house, for any reason. Lock the doors.
*If you have to have the sale inside the garage as we did, cover all non-sale areas with old sheets or painting tarps (don't want the good tools, etc., to disappear.)
*Check City Ordinances re: sale or distribution of food or water. It's illegal in my city to give out even bottled water w/o a permit, much less sell anything.
*Price things in even numbers to reduce need for change (i.e., $1, $2, $5, etc.)
*Always keep the money in a fanny pack or apron w/pockets. One family designated a person "The Money Man", but they had four helpers. My husband was our Money Man.
*According to all the on-line articles, clothing doesn't sell. We hung up all the golf jackets, windbreakers and old ski jackets we could find. Sold the new ones (which were giveaways from tournaments) for $5, old ones for $1 or $2. Even at that price, some people wanted to haggle us down to 25 cents!
*Definitely need to have a long extension cord & accessible GFI plug.

By 10:30, we had sold everything. Then we watched a neighbor try to sell "new space heaters from Lowe's. I paid $159, but I'll let you have them for $125 each. They're brand new, never out of the box." Later the price came down to $100 each but still never sold, even though she had the sales receipt. See my note above. She has to park her car on the street because her 2 car garage is full to the rafters.

Debbie @Gina---I got this from my fav gardener, Jerry Baker today: Deer-Proofing you asked for!
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paugeri I just started growing tomatoes in pots as I just don't have enough sun on my wooded property. Last year it was almost Oct. before I got any real pick able fruit in my zone 5 CT deck! Any ideas on what grows fast, can take less sun, and does well in pots? I stopped growing from seed as they just don't mature fast enough no matter when I start them!

Steve Masley Consulting and Design Choose cherry or small-fruited salad tomatoes, which fruit earlier and require less heat to mature fruit. Tomatoes need about 6 hours of sun a day to set and ripen fruit. Plants that get less sun tend to be leafier and more prone to diseases. You can find out more at http://www.grow-it-organically.com/growing-tomatoes-in-cool-summer-gardens.html Also see http://www.grow-it-organically.com/tomato-varieties.html for recommended cherry and salad tomatoes.