Garage Sale Blog - Part 1

With the coming of spring and summer months, the bugs aren’t the only things stirring. Home owners everywhere gear up for the garage sale season. Every Saturday it seems impossible to drive through a neighborhood without seeing the signs.While wheeling and dealing for those great prices on used furniture and clothing, make sure your not taking home more than you paid for. The saying Caveat emptor, “Buyer Beware” holds especially true when buying anything that was once in someone else’s home, (whether from a garage sale, thrift store or an Internet purchase). Couches, chairs, desks, dressers and even clothes can be harborage areas for all sorts of insects including brown recluse spiders and even bed bugs. Before you hand over that hard earned cash for anything, make sure you do a full inspection of what you’re buying. Check all cracks and crevices underneath and behind every drawer or door. Anything that looks questionable should be seriously reconsidered as a purchase, no matter how cheap it is. Preemptive examination of used goods is one of the small steps you can take to save yourself a potentially big problem. Once these pesky invaders get in, you may be paying for more than you bargained for to get them out. Stay tuned to Swat Pest for more tips and tricks on buying 2ND hand.