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Garage sale joys – make money while tidying up your kids' abandoned gear

April 17, 2008 Barbara No comments

Morning!

Ever have an insane urge to light a stick of dynamite and use it to clean out your kids’ rooms from all the, ahem, museum-quality collectibles they have taking up space there?

If so, I implore you – abandon the dynamite (although I will admit, it does have a wondrous appeal!) and instead, put together a garage sale, sell the items, and then use the money accrued for a long-deserved trip to the day spa. Wouldn’t that be better?

‘Course it would! And that brings me to the topic of today’s post – mistakes you DON’T want to make with your garage sales.

I just came across Barbara Crew’s guide 10 Ways to Ruin Your Garage or Tag Sale. It has great information in it, like:

…Throw Everything in a Few Big Boxes
Don’t bother setting up tables or clothing racks, instead just throw everything in a box and let folks have a treasure hunt trying to find stuff. Even better, mix it up with toys, books and clothes all in the same boxes.

If you’re short on tables or racks, at least group stuff together. Books in one box, kids clothing in another and so on.

Signs / Directions
Don’t you love a scavenger hunt? That’s what it is when an address on the sign is too small to read from a car, written with a pen instead of a marker or signs are set-up so many blocks away from the garage sale that no one knows where it actually is.

If you want shoppers to find your sale, BIG BOLD LETTERS on a simple sign work best.

Mark the Price Directly on the Item
Use a Sharpie marker and write directly on the stuff for sale. It’s not your problem if they can never remove the mark. Another strategy is using tape on cold-painted pieces, when the tape is removed, so is the finish ….MORE….

Want more garage sale tips? Consider:

Hope the above is useful!

Owlbert

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ps – speaking about garage sales:

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