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Tips On How To Operate Successful Garage Sales

The Garage Sales Guide
Garage sales are a lot of hard work - , but the returns more than justify the effort. Whether it's advertised as Garage Sale , Garage Sales , Estate Sales , Neighborhood Sales , Yard Sales , Auction Sales , or Community Sale , people will come and buy stuff. Clean out your closets and ANYTHING that is useless to you or you don't want - put it in the garage sale. People will buy just about everything, so don't throw anything away. You will be surprised at what people will buy from your garage sale. What is one person's trash is another's TRESSURE!!!

First, set a date and time when you can devote your full time to the garage sale, gathering up various articles as well as being able to attend the garage sale full time.


Second, plan just what you're going to put in your garage sale.


Third, have plenty of change on hand - both silver and paper money.


Advertising Your Garage Sales - Of course you need to do some advertising. Advertise your garage sale all you can. Be specific when you are advertising your garage sales, and be honest. State place, date, hours and anything else that you may think of that will help drive people to your sale.

Run an ad in your daily newspaper. If you run your ad one day only, have it in the Thursday paper. You might like to run the ad two days to appear in both the Thursday and Friday editions. If your sale runs through Saturday, your sale is about over before the paper hits the street on Saturday.

Use the WEB to advertise your garage sale too. You can advertise your sale here on http://www.MyGarageSales.info for FREE!

In addition to placing an ad in the paper, or advertising on the web, make sure you have signs out, place your garage sale signs at points where people will see them and make sure you use arrows on the signs. Address alone are not enough as some people do not know the area the garage sale is at.

However you decide to advertise your garage sale - BE READY! Be ready to meet any customer as soon as the paper hits the street unless you state. There will always be someone who will come before the sale and before you even get ready to start the sale the next day!

Garage Sales Seasons - Capitalize on the season. Do not hold a garage sale during the winter time. Spring and fall are great times for garage sales.

Good Garage Sale Items - Antiques go over big at garage sales no matter the condition. Give good descriptive details to save disappointments.

Today, bottles of all kinds are in demand. Big bottles, little bottles, Jim Beam, Avon, Kara Brooks, Wheaton/Nuline, old medicine, Mrs. Butterworth, miniature - all kinds, old fruit jars, and insulators.

Some additional items that we find to be a hit at garage sales: baseball cards, lawn mowers, camping articles, guns, tools, coins, old books, comic books (old and new), aprons, old-fashioned bonnets, salt and pepper shakers, needlework, jewelry and dishes.

Doll clothing and accessories are always in demand and especially for Barbie and Ken or teen dolls. Toys go over big time. Dolls and stuffed toys make a hit with the kiddies and they, in turn, will persuade their mothers to buy them something.

Have a large quantity of items to sell at your garage sale. The more items you have the more people will stop, don't be afraid to drag out that stuff you have outgrown, old dishes, two-of-a-kind items you don't really need or use. You'll find the money in your pocket is better than all the clutter in the house.

Homemade and handmade items are very popular at garage sales also. If someone in your household sews, then sew up aprons, doll clothes, dolls, stuffed toys from scraps of material lying around. You'll make use of those scraps taking up space and make money too! Fresh produce such as tomatoes, green beans, corn, fruits, etc. will also sell great also, if you should have a garden overflowing.

Garage Sale Pricing Tips - People are looking for good bargains. Don't disappoint them. Remember that what you sell is something you don't want or need anyway, so whatever you get is just extra money.
You will save yourself a lot of time answering questions if you show a price on all of your merchandise. Use a heavy black felt marking pen for lettering. If more families go in with you, identify your price tags with a code such as P 75 cents or A 25 cents. The letters designate, perhaps, the first letter of the last name of the family who contributed items to sell.

Garage Sale Item Placement - Take advantage of the space under the tables if you need more display room. You will be amazed how buyers spot the smallest item under the table.

If you have any fragile, rare or expensive items such as crystal, cut glass or jewelry, be sure they are displayed on a sturdy table and up high out of reach of kiddies. They are curious and you might be too busy to watch them.

String up a clothesline to display any clothing you may have. Remember, clothing for all ages, men or women, is always in great demand. Children's clothing goes over best and especially about the time for school to start in the fall.

Set up tables to display small merchandise. Place tables in a manner that will leave room for shoppers to browse without feeling crowded. Display your wares attractively. Be sure they are clean, usable, and priced temptingly.

Garage Sale Item Testing - Be sure you have electrical outlets nearby to show people that your items do work. If you do not have a plug in near by use an extension cord, make sure it is in excellent condition and preferably a heavy duty one.

Best Garage Sales Days - The best days for your Garage Sale are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sundays are usually a waste of time unless you're staying at home all day doing nothing anyway.

The Garage Sale Is Over - At the end of your sale you will have met a lot of nice, friendly people. If you want to continue selling items you might have left, you can let people know and have future garage sales all lined up. A circular already prepared and passed out to each customer will help insure future sales. You should have made money and some new acquaintances who will be ready to come back to your next garage sale!

Keep all the tags and at the end of the sale, divide the tags according to code and total the sales. You may not come out right to the penny on sales and change you had on hand as anyone can make errors in making change for a customer.

HAPPY SELLING AND GOOD LUCK!!!

Garage Sale Hunter Tips

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Do Your Research On A Garage Sale - Doing your research about a garage sale will let you make a better decision on if you should stop or not. Remember time is critical when it comes to getting those deals!!!

Mapping Your Garage Sales Attack - By printing out a map to the sale will allow you to drive directly to the sale itself without wondering around and getting lost. This will save you time, gas and allow you to do more garage saling as well as having a edge up on getting them deals. It is simple logic saving gas will allow you to spend more at the sales and saving time will allow you do more saling EVERY Garage Sales , Estate Sales , Neighborhood Sales , Yard Sales and Auction Sales listed on http://www.MyGarageSales.info has a printable map to make things go smoothly for you.

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Remember time is is valuable when it comes to finding those deals and those deals sale fast!!!

Price Negotiations -Although bargaining is a great tool and can add a level of excitement to garage selling, you don’t want to insult the person who is having the sale. For example, if they have an item listed at $1.00, offer $0.75 and let the negotiation begin. The person having the sale is more likely to take that amount then say $0.50. Some will come down and some will not. You never know until you ask. There is no better feeling then walking away with the item you wanted and paying less then what the person having the sale was asking for it. Another great time to offer less for the item is when the person who is having the sale appears they are packing things up and are finished with the sale. Most generally they will take whatever amount you offer on the item just so the person having the sale does not have to store it or take it back in. Remember the people who are having the sale is wanting to get rid of it anyway, but offer a fair price on it. A bad time to lowball prices is when the sale just opened or it is early in the sale day. You will find that most people having the sales will turn down the offer price as they are expecting a good turn out of people to come by the sale. My suggestion on this is if you think it is a deal then grab it up as more often then not someone will grab it up for their asking price if in fact it is a good deal.

Use these tips to make you a better garage sale hunter.

HAPPY GARAGE SELLING!!!