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755 uncurated estate and household lots, and the furniture is concentrated at the front of the catalogue: a seven-piece Danish De Luxe dining suite at $200 to $300, a replica Barcelona chair at $100 to $150, two IMG Comfort Norway leather swivel recliners with footstools at $400 to $600 each, and a black leather chaise lounge at $200 to $300. In-room viewing is Thursday 3 September, 9am to 5pm, so shortlist then rather than browsing on sale day. As-is, no returns, 24% buyer's premium, and the middle of the catalogue is porcelain, teddy bears and wine, so skip it.

📍 80-86 Highbury Road, Burwood VIC 3125

A full room of furniture at $20 with no drive out of the metro, and it is fully itemised: a couch, a washing machine, a timber storage cabinet, a coffee table, a cube bookcase, a black wall shelf unit, a white single-door fridge, a cube storage unit and a box of toys. Small unit at 3x2, so it clears in one van run. This and the Kilsyth lot are the two best-value storage buys of the week.

📍 Fort Knox Self Storage, 1011 Sydney Rd, Coburg VIC 3058

The pick is Campbellfield unit IB-8647, still at $1, holding a dark-stained timber wardrobe, two large timber-framed mirrors, one large metal-framed mirror and a timber cabinet with drawers. Every item on that list is a refinish-and-resell piece and none of it is filler. Northcote unit IB-8084 at $50 adds framed artwork, timber chairs, an upholstered bench and wire shelving mixed with clothing and bedding. Mordialloc at $11 is a mattress and an esky, so leave it.

📍 Various facilities, Melbourne metro (see each unit)

The strongest itemised metro unit after Kilsyth, currently $31: a wooden dining table with six chairs, a white fridge, a silver double door fridge, two end tables, a wooden barrel and a woodworking bench. Price the two fridges carefully before you bid, because white goods are heavy, need testing, and can swallow the margin the dining setting earns.

📍 Storage King Clayton, 27 Clarinda Road, Oakleigh South VIC 3167

Canterbury, Cranbourne West, Prahran and North Geelong, all still at $10 and all sold blind, because National Storage is the one operator that publishes no inventory list. Size is the only signal you get, so rank on it: Canterbury and Cranbourne West are both 15sqm, which is the most floor space per dollar anywhere this week. Prahran is 5.25sqm and North Geelong 9.7sqm. Fourth consecutive Thursday this operator has cleared a metro batch, so check every Thursday rather than waiting for us.

📍 Various facilities, Melbourne metro (see each unit)

Still at $1 for a medium unit itemised as a fridge, a mattress, a cube shelf, two lamp tables, assorted floor rugs, crockery, ornaments, a label maker, a Google Nest hub and boxes. The rugs and lamp tables are the clean flips. Plan for the mattress before you bid, because it is the one thing in a unit that cannot be resold and still has to be paid to dispose of.

📍 Storage King Pakenham, 41 Commercial Drive, Pakenham VIC 3810

A 3m by 3.5m unit at $21 listed as assorted goods: furniture, tools, a petrol whipper snipper, and a 4wd wheel and tyre in very good condition. Mixed rather than clean, but a working petrol whipper snipper on its own covers the bid several times over, and outdoor power gear moves fast.

📍 Storage King Oakleigh, 21 Lever St, Oakleigh VIC 3166

Still at $5 for a named retro dining table with four red dining chairs in a small 3.4m3 unit. The tightest single-piece flip on the page, because you know exactly what you are buying and retro dining sets resell well. The catch is the drive: Rosebud only pays alongside the Langwarrin sale on 5 September or another peninsula errand.

📍 Kennards Self Storage, 2 Colchester Rd, Rosebud VIC 3939

Free, kerbside, completely uncurated, and the last week of the last area-wide round Monash will ever run before it moves to a booked service in 2027. Kerbs are loaded right now, because residents put material out two to three days ahead of a 6am deadline and trucks work across the whole week. There is no street date left to publish, so this is a drive-the-detached-housing-streets week: Clayton, Oakleigh, Mount Waverley, Glen Waverley, Mulgrave, Wheelers Hill, Chadstone, Notting Hill, Huntingdale, Ashwood and Hughesdale.

📍 Various streets, Monash LGA (check your address)

Newly published this week, and with Monash finishing on 4 September this is the last scheduled area-wide kerbside round left on the metro calendar. Zone-specific dates land closer to the start, so put the date lookup in your calendar for next Monday and plan the streets then. Council is also surveying residents on scrapping the area-wide model, with the contract expiring December 2026, so treat this spring window as one you use rather than one you assume comes back.

📍 Various streets, Stonnington LGA (zone dates still to publish)

The cleanest walk-through of the week. Full street address published, and the seller has written it as a giveaway rather than a sale: moving house, needs these gone. Named stock is basic IKEA furniture (Billy, Kallax), a dining table, household electronics, frames and prints, plants and pots, and storage containers. The line that makes it worth the trip is the seller's own disclaimer, no antiques or collectibles, which means no curio filler to wade through and nobody holding out for collector prices. No early callers.

📍 1A Wimport St, Heidelberg VIC 3084

A tools run rather than a furniture run, full address published. Named stock: a 2HP compressor, a drill press, planes, spanners and wrenches, vintage spoke shaves, old cameras, ladders, garden tools, an old train set, and new hardwood desk tops. The desk tops are the interesting line, because they are raw material you turn into finished pieces rather than something to resell as-is. A men's shed prices to clear space, not to make money, and the listing has drawn over 1,800 views, so the good tools go in the first hour.

📍 185N Cranbourne Frankston Road, Langwarrin VIC 3910

Moving out and downsizing, covering furniture, appliances, artwork and bric a brac, with street parking available. It was listed only hours before we pulled this issue, so it has had almost no exposure and you will not be walking in behind a week of pickers. Street level only for route planning until the morning, and the seller asks people not to arrive early.

📍 Gilbert Rd, Preston VIC 3072 (full address unlocks 6am on the day)

Fifty years of accumulated garage and yard contents going in one hit: tools, plants and furniture, no reasonable offer refused, cash only. A fifty-year single-owner clear-out is the best-shaped garage sale there is, because nothing in it has been picked over and the seller has no reference price. Worth putting in the diary now. Note the clash, Tarneit runs a two-day multi-household sale the same weekend on the other side of the city, so it is a choice rather than a loop.

📍 Ninion Court, Greensborough VIC 3088 (full address unlocks when the sale starts)

258 lots, and the pocket that carries it is generators, chainsaws and DeWalt, Husqvarna, Makita, Milwaukee and Ryobi hand and power tools. Bikes and e-scooters are worth a look too, though both are awkward to hand over at volume. No furniture this round. Be honest about the ratio before you go: $250 cash registration, mandatory in-person attendance, 22% premium, and viewing is the morning of the sale only, 8am to 9.50am, which is 110 minutes to assess 258 lots. Registration is refunded if you buy nothing, and you pay and collect by 3.30pm the same day.

📍 15-19 Sunshine Road, West Footscray VIC 3012

42 live Victorian units this week, down from 75 last week, so the board is thinner but better documented. The change worth knowing: most facilities now publish a written inventory list on the unit page, so this is far less of a blind mystery box than it used to be. Storage King is the operator most likely to itemise, StoreLocal is where the sub-$5 opening bids cluster at 8am, and National Storage still sells blind. Soft close, 17.5% premium, clear within 72 hours, and the bond is cash everywhere except National Storage, which takes a card.

📍 Various facilities, Melbourne metro (see each unit)

A daily habit rather than a drive. Sort newest across furniture, homewares, lighting and outdoor, and always check the seller's other ads, because one listing often hides a whole-house clearance behind it. Gumtree publishes full addresses where Garage Sale Finder withholds the street number, so it is the better source for route planning.

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