questions for those who have sold things at garage sales

You will only gets pennies on the dollar for scrapbook items. Honestly, it has never been worth it for me to sell scrapping supplies at a garage sale. I would rather donate the items to someone that will use them. Or you could try a Facebook for sale group. Either a local on or one specifically for scrap stuff.

I've sold recent stuff (no more than 2 years old, most 1 year old) online.

Older stuff I sold on Kijiji (like Craigslist) for hardly any money at all. Four banana boxes packed full of supplies -- over 12 inches of paper, hundreds of die cuts, borders, tags, bags of flowers, etc, for about 100 for everything.

If you can sell the stuff at a crafting type garage sale at a LSS or somewhere, you would probably do a little better than at a typical household garage sale. I've sold off extra patterned paper and stickers in grab bags, some technique kits that I never got around to doing anything with, punches and other miscellaneous stuff and was able to recoup several hundred dollars from it. If you group things into kits it might sell better and you might get more for it. There have been numerous threads on 2peas and even a few here about lines (and even whole companies!) that are now long gone that people dearly miss, so one person's trash is definitely another person's treasure!

The magazines won't go for much, maybe .25- .50 each. If you have full years of them you might be able to donate those to your local library for their collection and take a tax deduction, I'm sure they'd be thrilled to get them.

Friends of mine do a rubber rummage and scrapping sale twice a year in Iowa and it's a huge success every time. I want to start one here in MN, I'm sure there are tons of people who have stuff they want to sell and just as many who want to buy.

I've been moving/purging so had a few yard sales. Unfortunately, unless you get a crafter, you won't sell anything. I did sell a photo box full of rubber stamps (some never used) for $5. I sold a box of a lot of beads and jewelry making supplies for $15. Sold my old fiskars trimmer for $5. Those $1 items, you basically have to group and bag together about 20 items then sell that for like $2-3.

My nicer stuff I will take to my crop to see if anyone wants or if the church could use for kids groups. I have sold a few things on ebay and am going to try some lots of nicer things. But mostly, I just want to get rid of it!

good luck!

My city animal shelter has a rummage sale every year we donate stuff to--my family tends to hoard things, so we take it as an opportunity to purge some of the better stuff that we feel guilty about not making money on if we just donate it to the local thrift store. That way, we get the space freed up, and we support our animal shelter when they money on it. There's a lot of stuff we want to get rid of like you--it's good stuff, but it's not worth selling if you don't get the right crowd, and our animal shelter has a bunch of people in a bunch of different hobbies. This year, my mom purged a lot of her craft room that we call a "crap room"--it basically held any craft supplies she'd ever gotten, even from when my sister and I were in Girl Scouts and she was our leader. So it's not crap in and of itself, but it's not meaningful to use in our current crafts--there's too simplified, for younger kids, and we're all much older than that. I'm rambling, but my point is, if you know of a good cause having a rummage sale, it could always be helpful to donate to them and help support them! (I also like the fact that I myself don't have to hold a garage sale because I hate sitting outside and bartering with people makes me uncomfortable.)

I haven't sold at yard sales but I've bought at them.

Magazines - DH bought me a stack for a nickel/each - he figured at that price he wasn't out much if I didn't want them or already had them. My LSS was giving away old ones when they were going out of business. I don't think there's much profit in old magazines.

Paper - I've seen in packs for $3-5 for quite a few sheets or kits with say paper/chipboard and other embellishments for $2-5

I think themed/cutesy stuff tends to go better at yard sales than the artsy stuff that the peas tend to prefer - or maybe that's just my area?

That has been my experience. Total waste of time. I had HUGE bags of supplies for a dollar each and couldn't get rid of them.  Couldn't GIVE the magazines away.  I donate the supplies to a local school and give the magazines to the local library for their magazine sale or recycle them.