Easily Map your Yard Sale Route

Technology is so awesome for a bargain hunter. No longer do I have to spend hours and hours with my newspapers and maps to figure out how to get the best bargains on Saturday morning. Now, in just a few minutes, I can find the sales I want to go to AND map my route.

I wrote about another yard sale treasure map a while ago. This new site, Gsalr.com (garage sales, yard & estate sales by map) is very similar to Yard Sale Treasure Map, but more user friendly. The map loaded faster and it was easier to add the sales I wanted to map and ignore the others.

Both Yard Sale Treasure Map and Gsalr pull the majority of their info from Craigslist. However, Gsalr (what DO those letters stand for??) also has a feature to add your own yard sale info. The standard ad is free and if you want to make it more visable in the list (bold letters, etc) you can pay extra using pay pal or a credit card.

Another smart feature of this site is that you can sign up and get a reminder email of the upcoming garage sales in your area.

If you have another way to find where "X marks the spot" on Yard Sale day, let me know.

Happy Hunting.

Yard Sale Treasure Mapper

When I first started going to yard sales (many moons ago), I would get the listings on Friday night and meticulously go through them, circling the ones that looked interesting. Then, I would get out my map and figure out where each sale was. Next, I would have to figure out the best route to hit all the yard sales - using the least gas, the least time, AND hitting the ones that sounded the best first. This was a rather time consuming activity (although it is a MARVELOUS way to learn the roads in your community.)

I have just found a FABULOUS tool for those of us who love to yard sale in an organized fashion. Yard Sale Treasurer Map

This mapper is still in Beta, but it looks like the real deal. You input your starting location and how many miles radius you want. Then the program searches all the garage sale listings on Craigslist and maps them out. You can add extra stops with just a click and drag. Then you can print out directions! Whoopee!!

This means you can easily go to yard sales in strange towns when you happen to be traveling on a yard sale day. Oh, the glory!

If you try this out early in the week (Monday or Tuesday), it might not give you any listings. Most yard sales don't get listed until the day before or day of the sale. So, try it out on a Friday or Saturday for best results.

This may just be the very best find ever!