A garage sale is a great way to clear the clutter and make some extra cash. You would be surprised as to what people will purchase. What you may think is trash, could be someone elses treasure.
Listed below are the guidelines that I use when having a sale.
1. Make sure you have a price on everything. It makes it so much easier when trying to negotiate if there is already a price listed on the item.
2. Make sure the item is in decent shape. No one wants to buy your ratty old socks with holes in them.
3. Place like items together. Kitchen stuff in a kitchen area, toys in the toy area, books with books, you get the point.
4. ADVERTISE!!!!! Even if that means posting a few signs or listing on craigslist. It is worth the extra effort.
5. Provide refreshments. there is nothing cuter than a 3 year old asking you is you would like a cup of wemonade and a chlocit chip cookie. No one can refuse that.
6. Provide music. I prefer to play some 80's tunes. I haven't met a person yet that didn't like 80's pop music.
7. During the last 2 hours of your sale, mark everything down 50%. The things that you do not want to mark down, remove them from the sale.
8. During the last 30 minutes, let everything go for free.
And is all else fails, you can skip the garage sale and give it all away on freecycle!
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