As the price of everything inflates quicker than my waistline, some of us out there need to work a bit harder to make ends meet. The thought of having your own business quickly comes to mind,, but who has the time and patience to open up and run a brick and mortar? I know I don't, so I started to wonder what I could do to make some extra money,, and it hit me. Junk!
Now I don't mean digging through trash or anything. What I am talking about is something people either love or hate, garage sales.
I am not going to lie, I love looking through peoples “junk” at yard sales. I don't know what it is, maybe I think I'll be lucky enough to find someone selling a Van Gogh painting for $5, but I love it.
It's also an interesting look into someone's life when you see take a look at the items they have laid out for sale.
For garage sales, you have two obvious options, selling things at your garage sale or buying things from someone else's. I do have my yard sales when my clutter level gets near overload, though quite often my “garage sales” become a microwave oven sale due to me collecting appliances.
But really to me, it's much more fun to find deals at other peoples' garage sales. My tips for garage sales items are cheap tools, as there is always someone willing to buy tools at a fair price. The other items I target are geared toward retro “hipsters”, old record albums and anything considered vintage.
Years ago, the word vintage to me was just another word for junk. But kids these days love the retro styling of the things from us older folks past. Old blenders and microwave ovens sell really well for some reason, as does clothing.
If I had known people would be so into old clothes, I would have saved every piece of clothing I owned and made a fortune! It seems like anything made before 1980 sells pretty well, with dresses from the 1950s being the hot sellers for me personally.
Here are my quick tips for a successful haul:
Time is of the essence. Get out there early.
Get in and out. Don't spend all day at one spot. Hit as many as you can.
Check your local newspaper for locations and durations of garage sales
For multiple day garage sales, make sure to attend the last day when most people just want to unload everything.
Bring plenty of cash. Not just for buying either, make sure you have quarters, dollar bills and gives to make change.
After my garage sale hunt, I clear out a space in my garage and prepare to sell. I tend to stick to eBay for my selling, as I just find it easier to deal with. If I end up picking items that are just too heavy for cheap shipping, I sell those on Craigslist. Although I typically sell all my clothing on eBay, if I don't have a lot of time I will sell clothing to my local vintage clothing store. But I must warn you, they don't pay all that well.
The microwave oven is a complete kitchen solution that can be placed anywhere and everywhere, and is ideal for single residents who may not have the luxury of a separate kitchen. Thus, it is found in the smallest of rooms and the kitchens of the largest hotels, serving gourmet meals. The microwave oven is here to stay, and its sales prove this fact.
Since the microwave uses a different cooking concept, it involves a different set of bowls and containers instead of the traditional pots and pans made from metals.
What Containers To Use
Glassware-Glassware is the ideal microwave material of containers placed inside it, for cooking, heating, defrosting or steaming. Glass permits the microwaves to penetrate it and enter the food. This facilitates the cooking process. glassware also needs to be heatproof and all the glassware manufactured all over the world may not necessarily be heatproof.
It is often found that pouring boiling hot tea in a glass may crack it instantly this implies that the particular glass is not heat-resistant.
Ceramic plates and bowls-These are generally heat-resistant and are safe for the microwave oven. They have been baked at high temperatures and this makes them heat-resistant.
“Microwave safe” plastics-While cheaper plastic is known to release chemicals that penetrate the food kept in them for heating, a special grade plastic has been invented to take care of the cooking and heating requirements of microwave ovens. They are of superior quality and thoroughly checked by governmental agencies.
Oven cooking bags are good for heating small quantities of left over food, cookies, cakes and so on.
Paper plates, bags, plastics, and kitchen towels, can all be safely used in the microwave oven. These are preferable to use rather than placing food directly on the turn table to heat.
Wax paper and plastic wrap can be used to cover the bowl being placed into the microwave. But it must never be sealed since the steam build up can make it burst after sometime. All that needs to be done is to make a hole for the steam to escape instead of building up.
What not to use in the microwave oven.
Ceramics and glassware that has a gold or silver line must not be kept inside the microwave oven, since there will be sparks along those lines
Any plates or bowls with a metallic glaze in orange, which has to have copper, or a blue glaze of cobalt also cannot be used in these ovens.
Aluminum foil is thin metal and can lead to sparking, so must not be used in the microwave oven.
Cold storage containers made of thin plastic must not be placed inside the microwave oven since they release chemicals upon heating which can contaminate the food inside.
Brown paper and newspaper is all recycled paper and must not be kept inside.
Metal pots and pans, bowls and plates cannot be used inside the microwave oven
Any foam insulated bowls and plates that are disposable.
These are only a few of some added features that you can see in today's microwave oven. This device also has different sizes, shape, colors, and designs. The black and white color of microwaves is very common, a red microwave is very rare.
Here is some advice and tips for those people who want to buy a cheap red microwave oven.
First you have to know something about microwaves their features for you might need them in your quest of finding a red microwave for your home.
Next is you have to know if you will use if for just reheating food, for cooking them or just cooking popcorn sat night when you watch some movies.
It is important to know up to what extent you are going to use your microwave oven so that you can decide what model and features you require in your house. You also have to decide what brand of microwave you want.
Since a red microwave is very rare, it should be better for you to buy it online. You could check them up in your local appliances store,, but you can seldom find a red microwave oven. If you search to the net, you could find lots of cheap red microwave oven if you know where to look.
But the disadvantage part in finding online is internet scams and fake websites, so you need to be careful and make sure that the website where you want to buy your microwave is a reputable and can be trusted as you want to avoid falling victim of the scams online.
You should also see if there is any warranty or the product you would like to buy. Also, reading comments, reviews, and suggestions online can be helpful in your part.
Asking your friends to help who have experience in buying things online will also be a big advantage in your part.
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