Guide To Having A Yard or Garage Sale
So your ready to have a yard sale, Great. Are you now scratching your head wondering what's involved? Well you've come to the right place.
You'll need supplies
If you don't already have these items below the Dollar type stores are a great place to buy the supplies you'll need for your sale on the cheap. Look for these items.
Poster Board or cardboard boxes (For The Signs)
Multi-colored stickers for prices
Tags with the string attached
Permanent marker or pen
Balloons
Other supplies:
Paper or plastic bags
Tables
Large plastic tarp(s)
It takes money to make money. You'll need something like $20.00 in one dollar bills. A few $5 and $10 bills. A roll of quarters and a few dollars worth of nickels and dimes. If the lowest priced items your selling is .25¢ then you won't need any 5¢ or 10¢ change.
Rule of thumb, if your selling more items under a dollar you'll need more change, if you have more higher priced items then you'll need more paper bills.
Planning stage:
This really depends on how much you procrastinate (put things off till later).
A week before the sale start pricing your items and group them together. Something like toys in one box, kitchen items in another etc. With antiques it's best to use those tags with the string. Putting a price sticker on an antique could make a buyer challenge the price. Also don't use a magic marker to write the price on your items.
With a garage sale, set up tables inside your garage and arrange your items by type. Place the items you'll put outside by the door. Anything you don't plan to sell cover it with plastic. With a yard sale put your items in boxes.
It's time to advertise. On a piece of paper write down the intersections where you'll post your signs, this also helps after the sale when you go and take the signs down. On your sign in big letters say something like Yard Sale or Garage Sale, put your address below and draw an arrow to show the direction of your sale. On the back of each sign in small print write down the address where you will post the sign. This makes it fast and easy to get the signs up on the day of your sale.
Take an ad out in your local paper. Put some keywords in your ad. The words antiques, name brand clothes, electronics will bring in more people earlier. If you don't want people showing up two hours before the sale make sure you say No Early Birds in your ad. Most people will will respect your wishes but you may still get a few die hard shoppers that push the envelope. Two to three days before the sale put an ad on your local Craigslist. If you place your ad too soon some people will forget or overlook your Craigslist ad. It's also a good idea to place another ad the night before the sale.
Get your money ready. Get your bills and change for the sale and put this aside. All you need is to be rushing the morning of the sale only to notice you only have a few nickels in your pocket.
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Garage Sale Pricing Guide
This guide will help price your items for a yard or garage sale. Most items in good condition should be priced 10%-30% of the original price.
Tip: If you have any expensive items, example, something over $50.00, it's a good idea to increase the price slightly higher than what you'd expect to sell it for. That way if someone bargains on the price, you will most likely stay satisfied after the item is sold.
If you have higher priced items your not willing to bargin over your better off selling them through your local paper, Craigslist or Bonanzle.
Media and Reading Material
Hard Cover Books: $0.50 - $1.50
Paperbacks: 10¢ - 50¢
Magazines: 10¢ - 50¢
VHS Tapes: 25¢ - $1.00
DVDs: $2.00 - $5.00
Music CDs: 50¢ - $1.50
Software CDs: 50¢ - $10.00
LP Records: 50¢ - $2.00
Cassette Tapes: 25¢ - 75¢
Children's Clothing
Shirts: 25¢ - $1.00
Pants: $1.00 - $2.00
Jackets: $1.00 - $3.00
Shoes: 50¢ - $5.00
Clothes
Jeans: $1.00 - $5.00
T-shirts: 25¢ - 75¢
Shirts: $1.00 - $3.00
Sweatshirts: $1.00 - 4.00
Sweaters: $1.00 - 4.00
Dresses: $2.00 - $8.00
Shoes: $2.00 - $5.00
Jewelry: 50¢ to $4.00
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