Released on = March 22, 2006, 7:58 am

Press Release Author = Fighting Words Press

Industry = Consumer Services

Press Release Summary = If you have ever been strolling the streets on a Saturday or
Sunday morning, you must have seen them: Garage sale shoppers prowling your
neighborhood, searching for the week's wonderful finds.But not all garage sale
shoppers are alike. Anita Chagaris, author of Garage Sale Gourmet: Streetwise
Shopping for Fun, Profit, and Home Improvement, helps you identify which type of
garage sale gourmet you are, then offers tips to turn your next garage sale outing
into a fulfilling venture.

Press Release Body = (Santa Monica, CA) - If you have ever been strolling the
streets on a Saturday or Sunday morning, you must have seen them: Garage sale shoppers prowling your neighborhood, searching for the week's wonderful finds.

But not all garage sale shoppers are alike.

"The vast majority of garage sale shoppers are Budget Watchers," reports Anita Chagaris, author of Garage Sale Gourmet: Streetwise Shopping for Fun, Profit, and Home
Improvement (www.GarageSaleGourmet.com). "However, there are four distinct types of garage salers. Each expects different results from their garage sale excursions."

*Beginners - The ones who delicately look at each item rather than plowing through piles. They often ask how much things cost but rarely make offers.

*?Bargain Hunters - The ones who show up while you are still getting ready, thirty minutes to two hours before you even open for business. They are often found driving
vehicles that are already loaded with tables and chairs by 8 a.m.

*Regulars - Recognized by their thermos of coffee and/or bottle of water, these garage salers are more interested in being outside and meeting new people, but they often find
that one special item they have been seeking for months.

*?Working Parents - Since their kids go through furniture almost as fast as food, these shoppers appreciate finds that help them have a professionally decorated home on
an amateur's budget.

Getting good deals can be fun, too, adds Chagaris. Garage saling gives you the opportunity to meet people, and get some fresh air and exercise.

No matter what type of Garage Sale Gourmet you are, you can hit the streets completely prepared by arming yourself with the free 21-Point Checklist of Supplies to Bring On Your Next Garage Sale Excursion, which you can find at www.GarageSaleGourmet.com
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THE AUTHORS: Anita Chagaris and Randy Lyman

Anita Chagaris and Randy Lyman are a brother-sister team with more than four decades of combined experience in writing and garage sale shopping.

Chagaris is a working mother who has been living the life described in Garage Sale Gourmet since her late teens. In two decades of garage sale shopping, she has decorated several apartments and two family homes. A collector of Snoopy memorabilia over 3,000 pieces strong, Anita lives in Santa Monica, CA with her husband and two children.

Lyman, founder and publisher of Fighting Words Press, has been a professional writer for 20 years, during which he has worked as a news reporter, editor and publicist in the San Francisco Bay Area and Prague, Czech Republic. He has covered politics, arts and entertainment, travel, alternative health, consumer affairs, technology and First
Amendment issues. He lives in Oakland, CA.


Garage Sale Gourmet: Streetwise Shopping for Fun, Profit, and Home Improvement
Fighting Words Press
2005
?ISBN: 1-933181-21-4
?$14.95
?GarageSaleGourmet





Web Site = http://www.garagesalegourmet.com

Contact Details = Randall Lyman
420 Bellevue Ave. #108
Oakland , 94610
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510-835-2390
fightingwordspress@earthlink.net
http://www.garagesalegourmet.com