Get a FREE Life's a FLip Flop LAFF Hugger and Magnet!

We want to meet people in every state who love Life's a Flip Flop and love to LAFF, so we're giving away FREE Life's a Flip Flop LAFF Huggers and LAFF Magnets to the first three people in every state to register!

It's easy!  You just have to complete two steps:

1.  LIKE our Facebook page.
2.  Create an account on our website and enter your name and address (so we know where to send your FREE Life's a Flip Flop LAFF Hugger and Magnet!)

That's all there is to it!  If you are one of the first three people from your state to register, we'll send you a FREE Life's a Flip Flop LAFF Hugger and LAFF Magnet within a few weeks!

Don't forget to tell your friends how they can get a FREE Life's a Flip Flop LAFF Hugger and LAFF Magnet!

(Fine print:  Available to U.S. residents only.  Please allow 2 - 3 weeks to receive your shipment.)

The Dreaded Yard/Garage/Moving/Estate Sale

One of the hardest jobs with typically the lowest return for your effort.  Or at least that’s what we thought. 

First, you have to determine your marketing strategy.  Is it a Yard Sale, Garage Sale, Moving Sale or an Estate Sale?  Each has different connotations and attracts different types of buyers.   Yard equals stuff you are tired of and are willing to spend hours cleaning out drawers, cabinets, closets and pricing stuff for 25 cents.  You make $32.15 for 2 weeks of work and a 10-hour day that starts with folks arriving before dawn to haggle you down to 10 cents.  Then you load up all the stuff left, which is the majority and haul it to Goodwill.

A Garage sale is the next step up.  You actually have some things that others may want such as tools and garden items.  Maybe some Holiday items and bric bracs like geese wearing bonnets and roosters plates that have lost their appeal to you.   Still hours of work, a10-hour day, and you haul stuff that didn’t sell to Goodwill. But you make $121.50.

Next is the Moving Sale.  You have good stuff but maybe you are combining households or it just is too much trouble to move.  If you find a good one of these you’ve stuck gold!!  

Finally, the Estate Sale also known as Great Aunt Ethel passed on but left behind old musty, dusty “antiques” that no one wants.   This is where some snooty estate appraiser is going to take a percentage of the sale so the prices are ridiculous and the stuff just gives you the creeps.

Well, we decided that our sale was in the Moving Sale category but couldn’t find preprinted signs so we called it a Garage Estate Sale.  Logic being we’d just attract anyone we could.  And we did!!

We had some of the nicest people you could meet come to the Sale.  During the Sale, we told the story of LAFF and were amazed at people’s reactions and the support.  It started with Mark who just happened to be passing time while waiting to pick up a friend from Shepard Spinal Center.  Before he left, we both got a little teary eyed about losing someone you love.  Then came Renee, Rob, Carol, Laura, Gladys, Max, Heather, Sheri and the list goes on.  We had Vietnam Vets, Antique Dealers, Country Music Fans, Single Moms, Newly Weds, Retirees, and just lots of folks who work hard and are trying to stretch their dollars.  Many are now our friends on facebook!  We gave away lots of LAFF magnets and LAFF huggers and can’t wait until the first time we spot someone driving around Atlanta with a LAFF magnet on their car.  

So to all who were a part of our Garage Estate Sale, thank you for stopping by, sharing a story and a LAFF, and for your heartfelt support for Life’s a Flip Flop.   We’ve never LAFFed so much at a Yard/Garage/Moving/Estate Sale!

Karen and Debra

New Lower Prices on Lifesaflipflop.com

The lifesaflipflop.com website has been available for shopping for a couple of weeks now.  We are absolutely thrilled at the feedback we've been receiving about the website, our philosophy, our products and gifts, and our ideas for expansion.  Our facebook page is gaining fans daily and soon we will start actively tweeting and twitting about the things that make us LAFF.

In the meantime, we've decided to lower prices on some of our most popular products and gifts.  As of today, we've lowered the price on flip flops, LAFF kits, and custom frames.  And, we'll soon be adding some new, lower-priced gifts that you can send as a Gift of LAFFter for under $20!

Why are we doing this?  Well, first of all, we didn't start down this path to get filthy rich!  Lifesaflipflop.com is dedicated to Jimbo, Karen's brother who was killed by a drunk driver several years ago.  It was his philosophy of "LAFFing in spite of everything" that helped Karen get through her painful loss.  So, we started lifesaflipflop.com to honor Jimbo and share his philosophy with as many people as we can.  After our initial launch with the original prices, we feel that lowering the prices to make the gifts more affordable to more people is the right thing to do.  The more we can share the Gift of LAFFter, the more we can honor Jimbo, spread his philosophy, and contribute to our favorite charities.

Thank you to everyone who has supported lifesaflipflop.com.  We look forward to providing you with great products and great service for many years to come!

LAFF, in spite of everything!
Karen and Debra