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Garage Sales: Frugal Ways to Clean Up Your Stuff

Cleaning up items for a garage sale is extremely important. Offering clean clothing, toys and furniture is the key to making the most money possible at your sale. I cannot tell you the countless times, that I have been to a garage sale, and seen dirty items that looked like they had literally been stored in a garage or basement (and probably had) without so much as a regards to the quality of the item. Those are the garage sales that I typically leave after only a minute or so of browsing. When I go to a garage sale, and … Continue reading →

How Much Change Should I Have For My Garage Sale?

An important consideration for the day of your garage sale is thinking about how much change you should have with you. How much change should I have on hand? While there really is not a right or wrong answer to this question, there are some things you might wish to really look at first. How Much Change Do You Need for a Garage Sale? First, I recommend not accepting checks unless they are from someone you know really well. A friend of mine accepted checks at a garage sale several years ago and she had one forty dollar check that … Continue reading →

Garage Sales: Do All Items Need Price Tags?

Sitting down to price items for a garage sale can be extremely time consuming. In addition, it is a chore, trying to come up with a price for each item. Often I hear the question asked frequently by people just getting ready to start. Do all of my items need to have a price tag on them? How do I know which things I don’t need a tag on? The answer to the first question, is: No, not all items need to have a price tag attached. However, I strongly recommend that you might want to consider having a price … Continue reading →

Garage Sales: Arranging Items For Display

In addition to what you use to display your items at your garage sale, how you display those items is equally important. Categories: The first thing you should consider when setting up your displays, is the categories. Obviously you need to keep like minded items together. For instance, tools should be displayed on a table with only tools. Children’s smaller toys should be on another table. Or you could even go as far as to separate the boy toys from the girl toys, though I think you should avoid this practice, as nowadays, girls play with boy toys and boys … Continue reading →

What Do You Use for Displays at a Garage Sale?

Displaying items at a garage sale, can be quite tricky. But if you take a little time to figure out the best way, you won’t have any problems and you’ll make your sales and profits increase dramatically. Obviously, the key word is “display”. You want your customers to see everything you have to offer. Your display methods might differ depending of course on where you are holding your sale. Most people have garage sales on their driveway, some hold them on the driveway and overflow into the garage and others are exclusively in the garage. Still, there are others who … Continue reading →

Pricing Items At A Garage Sale

Pricing items at a garage sale can be a real challenge. In fact, it seems that the question I most commonly see, is “How do I price things?”. My advice is simple, but there are a few standard things you can do. First, I strongly urge you to visit other garage sales in your area. Check out their prices on things that you will be selling. Books, CD’s, even clothing can range drastically in price from region to region. In addition to checking out other’s prices, you can almost always count on taking less than 25% of the original price. … Continue reading →

Garage Sale Signage

One of your best methods of advertising your garage sale, is going to be the signage you place around your area the day of the sale. Therefore, it is important to drive around your area and see where you can place your signs. Look where others are placing their signs, look at what you can see coming from different areas. For instance, be sure that people coming into your neighborhood from either direction, can see your garage sale signs. Store Bought Signs You can go to any hardware store, or even discount store and find garage sale signs. They are … Continue reading →

Organizing Items For a Garage Sale

By this time in the process, you should be ready to begin organizing the things you found yesterday while Collecting Items For a Garage Sale. You will more than likely need several boxes, containers and plastic bags. Separating the Items The easiest thing to do at this point is to use bags, boxes and containers to keep all the items you have found, together. It is time to sort them by item for easier placement the day of the sale. Obviously you need to keep like items together. For instance, books and magazines, no matter who they are for, should … Continue reading →

Collecting Items for a Garage Sale

Preparing for a garage sale is a lot of hard work. Unless you have done it numerous times, you are more than likely starting from scratch. While there is not necessarily a right or wrong way to have a garage sale, there are a lot of things you can do to ensure that your garage sale is successful. It all begins with the preparations. Gather Your Items The first step in preparing for the garage sale, is to gather all of your items together and put them in one spot. At this point, you don’t have to separate anything, you … Continue reading →

Our Home for Lost Dolls

My daughter seems to be learning to read using garage sale signs. Every weekend when we’re out in our neighborhood, she looks at all of the signs on the poles and says, “Oh! A garage sale. Let’s go!” This makes me alternately grin and cringe. I love garage sales and am often tempted to spend too much money at them. Then again, I find some great items for very low prices, and sometimes I even need them. Over the last year and a half, we’ve been collecting dolls. These aren’t just any dolls. These are the drop-dead ugliest dolls you’ve … Continue reading →