If you plan to setup your own garage sale, you will need to know if your area requires you a permit to do so, this is very important, I believe you don’t wish to get into some legal issues. As far as I know, some city limits or suburbs will allow you to have a garage sale only once a year for free and as for some other areas you will need to get a permit to do it and also do check out how many times you can be allow to have your own garage sale per year.

Couple At A Garage Sale

When everything is set and ready for your sale, do not display your garage items too late. Start displaying your garage items as early as you can in the morning to get more sales for the day.

Remember to put your signs readable by all pubic vehicles and also the drivers that drive pass your garage sale. Some garage sign might be just too small to read and will cost you to lose some buyers.

Organize your garage items that are selling in your sale so that it looks more attractive, clean and represent able to look around with your garage items on display for sale.

You do not need to put up price tag on your garage items to attract more buyers to stop in your Garage Sale. But if you are lazy to keep answering the buyers about the prices then put on the prices.

Here is a little video about Garage Sale:

Garage Sale

Statistic have shown that every house-whole have at least $1000 worth of garage items (both old and new) laying around right now. Think about having some fast cash for your usage, it should be a good new to you. Hosting a garage sale is a great way to turn your garage into cash! With a little organization, planning, and marketing your garage sale, you will be successful at it.

Things you will need are thick cardboard, markers, lemonade, organization and time.
Before putting out your garage items into your sale, it is important if you can do some up keeping like cleaning and fixing the old garage items that you wants to sell.

Think about ways to advertise your garage sale through the internet (cheapest and fastest) or through your local newspaper (low cost and massive exposure). Consider posting signs around major intersection in your area for example like transport station.

Setting Up Your Garage Sale

When you decide to post signs, it’s better to use a thick piece of cardboard and make sure you print the hours and location of the garage sale for both your old garage items and new garage items, large enough to read. Also make sure you include the date, time, address, directions, and specifics about your sale.

Have your kids, friends and neighbors get involved. These way increase word of mouth exposure which not only will increase your inventory and also increase buyers flocking to your garage sale.

Take time to clearly mark your items for the sale. Put up similar cheap garage items together such as books, toys, blankets. Consider marking these items the same price.

During your sale, you may want to consider a buy one get one free type of garage sale, its guarantee a win-win plan!

A video to motivate you!