It appears that once again I’m playing catch-up, having to report the results from two weeks to be caught up with this years Challenge. This report will cover both week 20 and week 21.

The number of garage sales in Grand Forks the last few weeks has declined significantly resulting in a decreased number of listings. This smaller number of items found has also led to smaller dollar amounts in sales.

Because of this, last Saturday I chose to get up early and drive to Barnesville, Minnesota for their annual City Wide Garage Sale Extravaganza. It will likely turn out to be a good decision. I went to 54 garage sales in Barnesville. Those sales resulted in 40 new items that are currently listed on eBay.

If I had stayed in Grand Forks I would have gone to 14 fresh sales on Saturday. While it’s impossible to know what I might have bought, no regulars that I’ve talked to reported buying anything of any significance, so it’s unlikely I would have either.

All that said, if you would like to see the details of how the Challenge is doing along with what I bought this last week you can do so at Gary’s 2008 Garage Sale Challenge - Week 20 & 21. You will notice that my mileage expense for last week was up significantly. That is due to the 220 mile round trip I made to Barnesville.

The short version is that at the end of week 21, with two weeks remaining I have made a net profit of $9747.77. Considerably short of the $15.000 goal I had set at the beginning of the Challenge.

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