Garage Sales 101 – The Sale is On!

Garage Sales 101 – The Day of the Sale

Be as prepared as you can the night before your sale. If the sale is  in your garage, try to have everything set up before you go to bed with  specific items ready to be carried out onto your driveway in the  morning. If the sale will be in the yard, have the items and display  tables ready to be carried out and a plan in mind for organizing  everything quickly.

You can post a start time of 9am, but don’t be surprised if you have  cars at your driveway at 7am! Every garage sale I’ve ever had, folks  show up well before starting time.

Collect money in advance. If larger items need to be picked up later, be sure to get 100 percent of the payment at the time of sale and set a specific deadline time for the pick-up.

At the end of your last sale day, don’t expect everything to be gone.  It just won’t happen. If you really just want to get rid of the stuff,  you can start slashing prices a couple of hours before the end of the  sale. But regardless, make a deal with yourself before the sale begins,  you will not to carry anything back into your house. Immediately pack it  up and make a trip to your favorite charity.  Or arrange a charity  pick-up like I did one year during our neighborhood sale. I arranged for  my favorite women’s charity to come with their truck to our  neighborhood the day after the sale. Neighbors put a sign on their  mailbox if they had items for the charity to take. It was a win-win for  everyone.

Here are a couple of more things to consider:

• Lock the doors to your house. When you get busy or distracted with customers, you don’t want someone to walk into your house.
• Clearly mark or remove any obstacles that may in anyway be   considered dangerous. Unfortunately, if someone is hurt on your   property, you may be held liable.
• Confine pets to the house or other secure area. This reduces the concern for distractions, animal attacks or allergic reactions.

Hopefully this series on garage sales helped you release some of your unwanted  treasures to others who will put them to good use and you made some  money in the process.

Originally posted 2010-09-06 12:07:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter