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Let's say you're planning a garage sale for this weekend. Go to your bank and get plenty of quarters and 1 dollar bills so that you make change for your customers. You will also want to get some color coded stickers so that you can clearly price all of your items for sale. By Thursday, you should have all your stuff organized inside of your garage, priced and ready to roll out. Thursday night, get on your bike and start putting out your signs.
If you don't have a sign already printed out use this simple and easy to read garage sale sign.
If you have the freedom to do so, start your garagee sale on Friday. If nothing else, passers by will notice your signs and come back when they have time on Saturday morning. Put your signs on the major intersections near your street. If there is no good place to place the sign, put it on your car and park your car on the street. Not only will this be more visible to passers by, it will also free up the precious parking space in front of your garage for your customers to park.
The earlier you can get set up the better. Often you will find many people that like to scan the garage sales as early as 6:00 am in the morning. Do what you can to at least open your
garage open and sit there with a cup of coffee so that you can take advantage of the early bird crowd. Often, they will make you an offer that you can't refuse on some of your larger items that you advertised in the paper. Depending on how good the early turn out is, you will want to start lowering your prices after about 10 am as you may not get too many people after that and you'll be stuck with all the stuff that you wanted to get rid of. If you're like me, you often end up with an over stuffed garage each year with stuff that you know you should have never bought. And, you're doing yourself a favor to get rid of this stuff. Not to mention, you can also put a smile on the face of a little boy or girl in your neighborhood who is just dieing to own one of your items for a quarter. The feeling that you get from letting go of some things to the right home is worth far more than the extra money you could have made.
I hope this article will help you to have the best garage sale you could possibly have. So long, and may your next garage sale be fun and rewarding.
Troy Smith is a garage sale enthusiast and freelance writer of Santa Rosa, California. Please visit his website at SantaRosaGarageSales.com
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