Hope you had a fun weekend.  Me and my wife are by ourselves, with the kids off in Florida with the grandparents.  So we had an unusually RELAXING weekend, and got to spend some quality time together doing stuff we used to do all the time together back before we had kids.  Saturday morning, we got up and went off to Starbucks.  Then, driving around, we spotted a number of “Garage Sale” signs so we decided to stop and shop!  My wife and I are both thrifty people at heart, and few things excite us more than a good garage sale!

One garage sale we stopped at was offering a brand new kids ten-speed bike.  We’ve been promising the kids we’d get them new bikes ever since we moved here from Texas.  They HAD bikes there, but they were so old and beat up, we decided to toss them rather than pay to move them here.  And, believe me, the kids have NOT let us forget that they’re supposed to get replacement bikes!  So here was a chance to get a bike and save some $$$ at the same time!

The woman was asking $30 for the bike, she said her daughter had only ridden it TWICE.  It looked brand new, probably a $100 bike new, so $30 was a good price.  BUT, it was really HARD not to want to BARGAIN!  Isn’t that what you’re suposed to DO at a garage sale?  My wife was thinking the same thing I was–we should offer $20 or $25.  But, I don’t know, I just felt like $30 was a good deal–was it really worth the feeling of being a “heel” just to save an extra five or ten bucks?  So, we took it for $30.

We’ve run many a garage sale ourselves, and it has always struck an off-note with me when someone tries to “dicker” on something that’s obviously priced at bargain-level.  But then again, for some people that’s part of the fun. 

What do YOU think? 

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