How to Have a Successful Garage Sale Pt. 4 – Running Your Sale and Cleaning Up

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You started planning early.  You researched the best advertising options to attract buyers to your sale. And, you’ve got it all set up and ready for traffic and sales.  How do you run a sale?  I’m so glad you asked, because I love working garage sales! Before you think about anything else, put your change money in a fanny pack and don’t take it off!  When things get really busy it’s not uncommon to be tallying up a large purchase {Read More}

How to Have a Successful Garage Sale Pt. 3 – Setting Up Your Sale

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So now you’ve made all the early preparations for your garage sale and have made your advertising arrangements.  If you want to have a successful garage sale you’ll need to give some thought to table and item placement. First, be sure you have these items on hand: Plastic sacks Batteries and extension cords to test toys and electronics Spare sheets to cover tables with (it makes your sale feel nicer) Duct tape and blank paper Pricing stickers or masking/painters tape {Read More}

How to Have a Successful Garage Sale Pt 2 – Advertising

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On Tuesday we talked about how to prepare early for a garage sale. While preparing early is super important, all the best preparations in the world won’t mean a thing unless you get people to stop by your sale.  I truly believe we should work smarter, not harder, so here are my best tips to make the most of your advertising dollars and time. For these examples let’s say that you’re having a sale on Friday, April 13th and Saturday, {Read More}

How to Have a Successful Garage Sale Pt. 1 – Early Preparations

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We are well into garage sale season here in TX and I don’t want to wait until the last minute to get ready.  I’m sure we’ll have another sale with friends within the next month and want it to be a super easy process.  I’m not sure if it’s getting some money back for our stuff, visiting with friends and neighbors, or seeing our unused stuff go to new homes where it will get used.  But whatever the reason, I {Read More}

My First Texas Garage Sale Trip

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Since we moved to Texas a year and a half ago I haven’t really been to any garage sales.  Oh, I’ve been to one or two here and there, but not really gone garage saleing like I used to do back in Arkansas.  Not only did I not know where I was going, but we had been trying to reduce our amount of stuff.  Now we’re at a point that we’re looking for a few things. So I ventured out {Read More}

Garage Sale Tips

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I have always loved having yard sales.  They are just exciting to me.  Yes dear friends, I know how weird I am!  I truly do enjoy visiting with all the customers, making sales and seeing the money bag thicken, and yes, I even enjoy haggling.  This past weekend I participated in a garage sale and was excited to contribute $158 to our checking account from the sale.  That may not seem like a huge amount, but considering our last sale {Read More}