The Garage Sale Trail will be returning on October 24, 2015.
Last year’s Garage Sale Trail, a national simultaneous day of garage sales, was supported by State and local governments from across Australia, including 140 councils.
Twenty Tasmanian councils participated in the 2014 Garage Sale Trail co founder Darryl Nichols said.
“This year, we hope to have 100 percent council participation which would make Tasmania the first State in Australia to achieve that.”
Participation in Tasmania was the highest per capita of anywhere in the country.
Registrations increased 60 percent on 2013 to a total of 333 registered garage sales across Tasmania, representing 95,924 items listed for reuse at an approximate value
of $343,751.
The average seller made $305 via the day and said they planned to spend 65 percent of their earnings locally.
The average Tasmanian participant also made 13 new neighbourly connections via the day.
There were also more community groups participating in Tasmania than anywhere else.
“The success of Garage Sale Trail relies on the positive and close working relationship we enjoy with our partners and sponsors and we’d like to recognise all of them for their commitment to the initiative,” Darryl Nichols said.
The 2014 Garage Sale Trail attracted approximately 400,000 participants nationally, buying and selling over six million reused goods with a combined value of over $6 million dollars.
In 2014 the Garage Sale Trail won a prestigious 2014 Banksia Sustainability Award.
Now in its 26th year the Banksia Foundation provides a positive platform to showcase the best in Australian invention, innovation and ingenuity in the all-important sustainability space.
Garage Sale Trail won the Leadership in Citizenship and Communities Award category that recognises a group or individual that has demonstrated strong, local capacity, enhancing the long-term social, economic and environmental status of their community.
