Well, here we are. Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff to yard sale season. And it looks like it’s going to be a good one.

Our flirtation with summer last week is supposed to give way to cooler, more seasonal temperatures. Good thing! We don’t mind the heat and humidity in July (actually, yes we do), but in May?

Check out this weekend’s weather report here.

Here’s our best bets for your yard-saling adventures:

A giant yard/warehouse  sale is 7 a.m. to  4 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 3108 W. Market St. in the city. This one touts household and office furniture.

On the East End, in Penn Oaks is a seven-family yard sale 9-5 Friday and Saturday in the Harrowgate Drive and Edgewood Road area.  Their ad lists lots of goods, including Star Trek stuff, a shower chair and a dehumidifier.

In Manchester Township, a huge community yard sale is on Raintree Road between Lewisberry and Mill Creek roads. It’s rain or shine starting at 8 Friday and Saturday.

In the Ridings development (Roosevelt Avenue to Greenbriar Road to Futurity) is a community yard sale 8-2 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Six families are teaming up for a sale at 268 Muddy Creek Forks Road in Brogue today through Saturday, starting at 8 each morning.

In the Brodbecks/Glenville area is an indoor yard sale at 5106 Tannery Road off Route 516 south Friday and Saturday from 8-2 p.m.

The York Dispatch classifieds are chock full of more yard sales this holiday weekend. Check them out here.

 

 

 

 

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Welcome to the 2013 season of Yard Sale Secrets. Today we are officially kicking off our summer coverage for the yard sale scene here in York County, Pa. We get a lot of readers from York, of course, but we also pull in traffic from around the country thanks to our wide variety of tips.

Our posting schedule will be:

• MONDAYS: GREAT BUYS – A look at some of the items we picked up over the weekend. You can join in by e-mailing your own photos and descriptions by Sunday evening to jsimcoe@yorkdispatch.com. If you do please put “Yard Sale Secrets” in the subject line.
• WEDNESDAYS: TIPS FOR BUYERS AND SELLERS – We post new tips each week, so keep an eye out for them to make your yard sale experience even more rewarding.
• THURSDAYS: BEST BETS – A weekly look at the best bets as advertised in The York Dispatch’s classified section. You can see them in the paper itself, or at the online yard sale listings.

BEST BETS

Since it’s still early in the season, the classified listings aren’t as robust as they often are. Still, there’s a few notable events happening this weekend.

• Over at 4775 Bull Road, you can find some name-brand clothing items, primitive items and a cherry desk and chair. The Dover sale is Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The sale at 795 Windsor Road in Red Lion looks good for the craft-loving folks in your house. We are intrigued by their offer of dried gourds, which are suitable for painig. They also have a windmill, costume jewelry and Longaberger items.
• Seven Valleys’ New Hope Bible Church is holding a “Pennies for Heaven” sale, which promises reasonably priced goods. The Saturday-only sale runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Among the community-wide yard sales that captured our eye was the Saturday sale from 7 a.m. until “whenever” at the Woodmont Estates, Crossings and Hearthridge developments. Sounds like a big one! Get there off Route 30 and the Susquehanna Trail North and then go to Woodmont Drive.
• Another sale that shows promise is in the Penn State Estates community. The Friday-Saturday sale on South Maurice Street has furniture and country items.

WEATHER

Weekend weather, according to abc27, looks a little dicey for yard sales. Scattered showers are predicted for Friday and Saturday with a high of 80 on Friday, followed by a 70-degree day on Saturday.

CHECK OUT THE APP

Yard Sale Secrets, in conjunction with The York Dispatch and the York Newspaper Co., now has a yard sale app for iPhone and Android phones. The app helps you locate all the yard sales advertised on MediaOnePa, which includes sites in York, Hanover, Chambersburg and Lebanon. Zip to the bottom of this page for a link to the app.

TWITTER

Yep, the Yard Sale Secrets has adopted Twitter. We might only use it sporadically, but we welcome you to join us. We especially hope to use it on Saturdays (and some Fridays) when we are out on the road. Join Yard Sale Secrets on Twitter now!

MORE YARD SALE INFORMATION

Got a question for us here at Yard Sale Secrets? Or, even better, a great tip on selling or buying? Then leave a comment for us and we’ll respond in an upcoming post. We love to hear from other yard sale fanatics!

YOUR WEEKEND MISSION

If you’re hosting a yard sale this weekend, take some pictures of your event set up. We would love to see it. If you’re heading out to some sales, lets see some pictures of your loot! E-mail them to jsimcoe@yorkdispatch.com for inclusion in an upcoming Yard Sale Secrets post.

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Well, it’s that time of the year again. The Yard Sale Secrets staff has decided to pack it in for the season.

Sure, there are still some sales happening every week, but they are fewer and farther between. Even worse, the mornings are colder!

With that in mind, we are ending our weekly schedule of posts (“What we bought” posts Mondays, Tips on Wednesdays and Best Bets on Thursdays) until the Spring.

We may still pop in from time to time with some tips, video suggestions or even a post on a surprise buying spree, but not on regular basis.

While you wait for the next Yard Sale Secrets post, we advise you sate your bargain-hunting hunger by checking out:

• Local auctions
• Nearby antique stores
• Charity stores
• Church sales
• Classified advertisements
• Black Friday sales
• Cyber Monday sales
• All those great discount stores in the York area

A regular sampling of all those will tide you off until the spring — or at least it should!

 

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The weather forecast calls for rain in the morning on Friday with clearing skies in the afternoon and a high of 76 degrees. Saturday will be the best day for yard sales with mostly sunny skies and a high of 70 degrees.

Here are some of our best bets for this weekend:

• A Christmas in September yard sale at 4012 Clair Mar Dr. in Dover will be held on Friday and Saturday from 8-5. The sale is located off Salem Church Rd. between Davidsburg Rd. and West Canal Rd.

• There is a sale at 2100 Worth Street in West York on Saturday from 8-2. They will have a queen size bedroom suit, computer desk, computer chair, kitchen island cart, bar stools, king bedding and toys. Everything must go!

• Employee/community yard sale will be held on the hospital grounds at 1850 Normandie Drive on Saturday from 8-3. Rain date is Oct. 6.

• There will be a multi-family, antique collectible sale at 105 N. Vernon St. in East York on Friday and Saturday starting at 8 a.m. both days. This sale will consist of Lionel, Pfaltzgraff, Foust-Moul bottles, old York bottles, jugs, tins and lots of other junk according to the listing.

As always, check the full yard sale listings in The York Dispatch classifieds.

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Another great weekend for yard sales. The weather forecast says it will be beautiful both days.

Here’s some of our best bets:

A sale at 424 W. Howard St. in Dallastown, is Friday and Saturday starting at 7 a.m. both days. It will have an electric stove with convection oven, lots of Christmas items, hunting gear and lots of items brand new.

A huge moving sale at 3721 Wheatland Drive in the Ashley Farms development in the Dover area is Friday and Saturday 7-5. This one is selling furniture, home decor, lots of baby stuff, tools, Hollister and American Eagle clothes. All at great prices!

In Red Lion, a sale at 3249 Cape Horn Road is today, Friday and Saturday starting at 8 a.m. The ad states that they have “This, That and the Other Thing!” Love it!

There is a community yard sale in Shiloh Farms off of Poplars Road in York next to the American Legion. The sale will be held on Friday and Saturday from 8-2.

A neighborhood yard sale in the North Hills development will be held on Friday and Saturday starting at 9 a.m. Furniture, jewelry, girls bike, toys, material, shop tools and much more is available at this sale.

As always, check the full yard sale listings in The York Dispatch classifieds.

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