How To Organize an Effective Garage Sale
You may not be thinking of yard sales in the months of January or February, but that is the perfect time to start thinking of gathering up items for a yard sale. The bitter cold usually means that you will be at home more and have more time to think about what can go. Start by gathering up a few boxes and looking throughout the home and the garage for items that can go. Pack them in the boxes and price them as you go along. This way when you unpack the boxes on the morning of the sale everything already has a price on it.
Communities usually have a scheduled day for a type of event. It could be anything from a cherry blossom festival to a welcome spring celebration. Look for local festivities that will generate a flow of traffic through your area. The more people who pass by the sale, increases the chance of making more money. Research what events will be happening and mark it on the calendar for the day of the sale. Call family and friends to find out if they would like to help on the day of the sale and if they have any items that they would like to get rid of. This will help increase the number of items you have. When people see large sales they are more apt to stop to see what is out there. If you only have a table full of items, chances are, people will walk right past and never even look over the items. Use the yard to maximize the look of the sale to spark people’s curiosity to make them look.
The other things that you will have to do, is map out surrounding areas to figure out how many signs you will need and think about advertising. Print out fliers to post on local bulletin boards. Place an ad in the paper at least two weekends ahead to make people aware of it, but continue to keep the ad up until the time of sale. If you post ahead of time, but not the week of the sale, people will forget your sale. Make the signs ahead of time, but do not put them out until a few days before the sale. Posting them too early will have people who drive by them everyday and not pay attention to them. A new sign a few days early will catch someone’s attention.
Make sure prior to the sale, you have enough table space. A well-supported piece of plywood makes a useful large table and use sheets on the ground for additional room. Get a money box or something to use for holding change and make sure to have at least fifteen dollars in loose change, lots of one dollar bills and keep at least thirty dollars in other cash, but keep the extra bills in your pocket. On the day of the sale, be personable and ask the browsers if there is an item in particular they are looking for. Price items to sell and the yard sale should turn out to be a profitable great sale.
Marley Martinerin is a regular contributor to a number of sites and writes articles about such topics as collecting vintage signs, and vintage gas signs.
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