HOUSTON – It's that time of year when many people love to spend their days driving from one garage or yard sale to the next.
Having a plan of attack before heading out can help save time and money when searching for those treasures.
Consumer expert Amy Davis says these new apps can help you do just that.
Yard Sale Treasure Map finds sales by day, location, distance, and keyword. Take it a step further by organizing by color and creating a sale route. Yard Sale Treasure Map even gives you the option of seeing a street view of a sale site before visiting, and it gives directions to each sale as you shop. The app is free for IOS and Android.
Garage Sales by Map finds garage, yard, and estate sales nearby. The app scours the internet for sales and puts the results all in one place. It claims as many as 70,000 sales are listed weekly throughout the U.S. You can search by keyword or browse sales on a map, list or by photo. It's also free for IOS and Android.
Yardzing uses more of a crowdsourcing approach to finding sales. That means users are continually feeding data, including photos, into the app so that it is up-to-date, which is useful if you want to know if it's worth it to drive to a sale. The navigation features make finding sales easy. It's free for IOS and Android.