Tag Archives: garage sale

Yard Sale-ing Finds

Did you go yard-sale-ing this weekend? We did. Not only did we get some great bargains, but we learned quite a bit about yard sales. Yesterday was a big day for our family. It was the first time that we went yard sale-ing in our new area. We weren’t sure what to expect, since we were unfamiliar with the towns and communities around our new house. But we took a chance with a community sale not far from home. We found it through signs hung on trees and posts near the main roads. The sale was in effect from 9 … 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 →

The Art of the Garage Sale

Spring may still be a few months away, but I am already doing some major “spring cleaning.” We been out of town for a few weeks and I am only now trying to find a place for all of the goods we acquired over the holidays. I am a mom on a mission. My mantra: purge, purge, purge. If it were a few degrees warmer I would be planning a garage sale, but unfortunately we live an area where rummage sales go on a winter hiatus. So even if I posted a sign advertising a sale most people around here … Continue reading →

Celebrity Garage Sale

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that part of being rich and famous was that you happily avoided having to make money by selling your personal items on the street? Okay, the celebrity in question here is actress Tori Spelling… and yes, it’s true; she did inherit less than 1/300ths of her later father’s estate (TV mogul Aaron Spelling), but I can’t imagine she is facing skid row. Whatever the impetus may be, the now five-months pregnant ex-“Beverly Hills, 90210” star and her husband Dean McDermott are determined to sell her wares at her Studio City, California home … Continue reading →

How To Price Scrapbook Supplies at a Garage Sale (2)

Hosting a garage sale is a great way to get rid of unwanted or unneeded scrapbook supplies. If you are already planning one, great. Throw some extra scrapbooking supplies in with the rest of your treasures. If not, than think about organizing one to get rid of not only your leftover hobby supplies, but extra things you have around your home too. In the previous article, How To Price Scrapbook Supplies at a Garage Sale (1) I began giving you some tips on pricing your items. Here are a few more great ideas. Patterned paper sells best when it is … Continue reading →

Scrapbook Supplies At Your Garage Sale

The preparation for a garage sale is not only extremely time consuming, but is emotionally exhausting and draining as well. Deciding what to keep, what to sell and what simply belongs in the trash is hard. Especially if it deals with a passionate hobby of ours. That hobby of course, being scrapbooking. The key is to set aside some time to really go through what you have. Think about each item, are you really going to use it? Have you used it lately? Is it something you can live without? Create three piles of items. One pile should be the … Continue reading →

Try a Garage Sale for Some Extra Cash

If you have ever seen Antiques Roadshow or a similar program you have no doubt fantasized about finding a million dollar treasure stored in your attic or basement. While that is a great fantasy it is not likely to happen for most of us, so what to do? Work with what you’ve got. You may not have one big treasure but you almost certainly have several small ones. Why not hold a garage sale? A garage sale can give you the chance to pick up a little extra cash and at the same time, clear out some of the clutter … Continue reading →

More Garage Sale and Yard Sale Tips

Here are a few more tips to help you make your garage sale or yard sale a success: Price Everything While it does take extra effort, you will likely sell more if you price the items for sale. Even if that means placing several items on a table and making a sign that says everything on the table is $1.00, rather than pricing items individually. This is important because people are often shy about asking the price, and they are also shy about making an offer. They want a good deal, but they are afraid they will seem too cheap. … Continue reading →