Get Ready for Garage Sale Time
Make some money and start your Spring cleaning early.
Dig through those closets and basements and “get your garage sale on”.
Organize
The first step is to get things organized & put prices on the items you’re selling. Don’t be too aggressive with the prices–usually you’ll end up making more if you sell things on the lower end because people will buy more.
Once you pick a date for your sale (Saturdays are usually best sale days), be sure to promote it the week before on sites like craigslist.com or in your local paper.
Promote
It’s also a good idea to put postings up at local grocery stores, gas stations and churches.
Make little paper “hangies” on the flyers so people can rip off tags that list your address.
Get your kids involved by having them go through their closets and collecting items they can live without and can sell.
Jump the Gun
Start early and you’ll be the first on your block to have a garage sale once the weather gets warm.
Side note: For more expensive/larger items, it’s probably best to list them on free sites like craigslist.
Last year I put an ad for my elliptical machine on there and I got a ton of responses. All I had to do was let people come over to try it out–the best part was that they arranged the moving of it.
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