Comments on: A Yard Sale Checklist: Ten Tips for Garage Sale Prep

By: Calgary Garage Builder

Calgary Garage Builder — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:11:23 +0000

Thanks for providing useful tips. Though post is older, I really like your tips.

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By: Eric MIchael

Eric MIchael — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:42:06 +0000

We have an entire webpage that discusses how to get rid of stuff after your garage sale. You can also make money on the leftovers, if you do it right.

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By: MilitaryOnlineSales.com

MilitaryOnlineSales.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:45:17 +0000

If PCS’ing or selling close to a military base or on base you can always try MilitaryOlineSales.com
It’s free to list and unlike bookoo you wont have to break your bank account to post a picture classified!

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By: Luisa

Luisa — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:20:31 +0000

Interesting. I’m curious to see the success rate of sales at a garage/yard sale due to yard signs.

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By: Albena Georgieva

Albena Georgieva — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:25:03 +0000

Why don’t you try Yardmama. It’s really great and you can post all year long, without having a yard or garage for only $34 / yr.

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By: Katy Perry

Katy Perry — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:09:32 +0000

I had a garage sell and I only made 5 dollars!!! Because we had 2 neighbors having a yard sell as well!

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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:25:07 +0000

As the source for this article – I gotta definitely agree with #47 No one likes seeing printouts of what similar things sold for on ebay.

#45 – I would pick the area where it would be seen by people driving by. If your yardsale is hidden in the backyard – that could turn some people off or they may not bother to stop.

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By: SSS

SSS — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:34:27 +0000

Good tips! I know this is an older post but I wanted to comment to the people having Garage Sales: Please stop using Ebay to price stuff! Just because someone sold a My Little Pony on Ebay for 40.00 once doesn’t mean it is worth that at your YARD SALE. Come on people.

I do buy at garage sales to sell on Ebay, and you know what? That is good business. If you want Ebay prices then pay and take the time to create an Ebay store, but don’t get mad about “pickers” and overprice all your stuff.

My advice quit trying to sell your used crap based on what price Ebay pulled up on your iphone. It’s greedy.

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By: Julie Jarrett

Julie Jarrett — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:19:42 +0000

You may have to give them away. A sweet friend of mine, a retired school teacher, tried to donate a set to the local libraries, to schools and even Second Hand Books didn’t want them and they went into the recycle bin. So sad. Maybe in 50 more years they will be a priceless momento of an age when people read and used Encyclopedias for research.

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:23:10 +0000

I am planning a garage sale to have in a couple months. We do not have a paved driveway, just rocks. We also have a parking area in the back of the house, which is also rocks. You get to it by an entrance off of the road and ours is the first back area on the entrance. Would it be better to hold the sale back there or in front? Either way, people would either have to park by the curb or in the businesses on either side..which are both very short distance from each area. Thank you for any input.

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By: duhonmommie

duhonmommie — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:11:15 +0000

My husband was just offered a job today, out of state. It will require that we live in an extended stay hotel for about a month. We would like to have a moving sale, selling large furniture, etc. before we move to cut down on moving/storage costs. We have to be in the new location by Sept. 1. Any suggestions for getting this done quickly and for selling furniture well? My biggest question is how to price the items? I’d like to sell some of my clothes too, but from what I’ve read, that may be a bad idea. Is there a better way to sell women’s and men’s clothing?

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By: SB(One Cent At A Time)

SB(One Cent At A Time) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:49:24 +0000

I recently posted on my blog, how you can make use of garage sale to impart valuable lessons on your kids. A garage sale offer so much to them in terms of teachings about money matters. If interested do read my post here

http://onecentatatime.com/let-children-learn-money-from-garage-sale/

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By: Snag A Bargain

Snag A Bargain — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:50:09 +0000

This is awesome. I am planning to do my first yard sale this spring and these tips will be very helpful. I am still trying to figure out how to do it. I have a long, single car driveway so I think I will need to do it at the end of the driveway near the road.

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By: Yard Sale Tips: The Final Tactic to Purge Your Crap

Yard Sale Tips: The Final Tactic to Purge Your Crap — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:57:34 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:22:46 +0000

I’ve found Yard Sale Search.com to be the most comprehensive source of listings – and it has the best data. The thing that irks me about craigslist and all the sites that just replicate those listings (gsalr, garagesalestracker, etc.) are the bad data. Bad dates, bad addresses, it just seems like a free for all.

I’ll end my rant.

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:16:50 +0000

someone asked about getting rid of the stuff after… My plans were to not bring anything back in the house, and what I did last time worked great. about 12:00 Saturday I put an add on freecycle (you do have to sign up to post). it said something like. Garage sale leftovers, must call me xxx.xxx.xxxx must bring truck or van to take all. will be ready around 2:30.

I had several people reply to the email (I guess they can’t read). The first guy said he’d have to borrow a truck, but wanted it. I told the other 3 that called I’d keep their # and they were next if that guy didn’t show.

After we had his dad’s van loaded (I had a bunch of stuff left), I asked him if he did yard sales? He said he had been laid off at the car plant, and was doing whatever he could to support his family. So it worked out good for both of us.

craigslist free section would work just as well.

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By: Shelby

Shelby — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:52:38 +0000

I was thinking of having a garage sale and saling everything for $1 ea. Do you think this will work. I don’t want to negotiate, in my opinion $1 for each item is a steal. In need of feedback

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By: R. Wayne Diehl

R. Wayne Diehl — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:33:25 +0000

I’ve had lots of good experiences with yard sales over the years. I’ve noticed that a “carnival” attitude has helped. This time I had downloaded circus music, had “used car lot flag strings” and I played the “barker” who made it a side show. As time goes on, I see what isn’t moving and so I barter with people who are buying something. I either give them something for free for buying the item, or, I discount the price if they take something else at half price. Less to put back of the shelves after the sale is over. I also go upscale on signage. I go to the local print shop and have LARGE signs made up that are generic, but have space to hang regular paper sized signs on the posters. The smaller signs have times, dates, directional arrows. When done, throw away the small paper signs, but protect the poster sized signs with clear plastic shelving paper with adheasive backing. Use them again or rent them to your neighbors when they have a sale.

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By: Finance Gets Personal » Garage Sale Report

Finance Gets Personal » Garage Sale Report — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:47:52 +0000

[...] reading garage sale tips from places like the Yard Sale Queen and Get Rich Slowly (click here and here). Here are some of the tips that I used, along with how well they worked for me: Have a Group Sale [...]

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By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:29 +0000

About your books….
You said you sold 100 dollars worth of books.
How did you price your books?
50 cents? 1 dollar?
Books always throw me. I never know how to price them.

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By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:26 +0000

As pointed out, advertising is an obvious necessity. http://www.yardsalequeen.com/yardsalelinks.htm has some good sites. Some of you may have noticed http://www.yardsalead.com coming up in your searches. So far I have to say the site seems more professional than others that I have been to. Like the others it does not cost to post, but it gives search options to fine tune what you are looking for.

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:56 +0000

To find or post garage sales by map, try http://www.mapgaragesales.com. The advantage to this one is that it’s free to post.

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By: yard sale | boogiemum

yard sale | boogiemum — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:54:49 +0000

[...] being the caring person that I am, I will leave you with a link that I found extremely helpful during my planning stages of the yard sale. Hope everyone has a great weekend, and I will try to get around to say “hi” in a [...]

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By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:19:17 +0000

Natalie, great resource! One thing I was thinking of doing with some cuddly toys (and that sort of stuff) that doesn’t sell but is in good condition is to start a community toy library in the local play group. Kids can borrow toys and take them home for a week or two and then exchange then for something else. That way you get rid of toys that just won’t sell and the community benefits too!

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By: natalie

natalie — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:09:21 +0000

To feed my Garage Sale fix I built http://www.garagesalenation.com, it maps out all the sales in the country. Last weekend I had over 24,000 sales mapped on it.

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:03:36 +0000

Does anyone out there ever try to have a “swap meet” as opposed to a yardsale, for say maybe children’s clothing and such. I had the crazy idea that if I can host a swap meet at my church or school or even in my drive way, the kids could play in the backyard while the parents exchange childrens clothes and such. It would be a win win situation all the way around for everyone involved. If I did it at home I don’t have to drag my daughter anywhere, there is no money exchange, just decent clothes, toys, ect. This cuts out time and money waisted at stores and the kids can try the clothes on right there at home or where ever. Doing that maybe once a month or so is even better that way if the clothes don’t fit you can switch up with someone else. Maybe put an add in the church bullitin or local paper. I’d like to hear feedback.

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By: blondeblogger

blondeblogger — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:14:10 +0000

Good tips!! I’m hosting a contest on my blog right now and the prize is an autographed copy of Garage Sale America by Bruce Littlefield, plus one of his garage sale treasures. Stop on by and enter if you’d like.

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By: Joe Soter

Joe Soter — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:07:03 +0000

Garage Sale tip: When the kids were smaller they collected the free toys in their burger meals. When they got older we cleared out the toys by putting ten in a ziplock bag and selling the bag for 50 cents. It’s amazing how many of these trinkets were in the bottom of the kids’ toy box. Our bags brought in $20! Hint: Don’t let the customers’ kids open the bags and mix and match. You’ll sell more.

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By: stephanie

stephanie — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:55:48 +0000

wow! what a timely post! after reading about the benefits of yard sales i was very excited to participate in the neighborhood yard sale yesterday. ours was not nearly as productive.

we lost money. and didn’t get rid of much stuff either. seemed to have a lot of people looking for the .10 item they could re-sell on ebay for $100. i worried about being overpriced, but i was offered .50 (and accepted as it was getting late in the day) for 5 books and 2 kitchen tools (1.45 by my pricing). it cost $5 to participate in the sale (covered advertising, balloons, signage), $8 for stickers to price things, and $12 for lunch. i lost $7 and 2 days.

my neighbors didn’t fair any better. the church rummage sales will have a lot of supplies and the salvation army will be busy this week.

i won’t participate next year – i’ll save my time and money (and take the tax break) and donate the small items. i’ll try ebay and craig’s list for a couple of the bigger items, but i won’t do a yard sale again.

i wonder if it’s location? (i live in a town mostly supported by a large tech company – are we more computer-geeky and likely to use craig’s list and ebay? are we more likely to donate smaller items to charity?)

-s

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By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:25:53 +0000

Weekly Roundup – 06/15/07…

Well, here we are… In a few days we’ll be taking off for vacation, so we’ve been madly rushing around trying to tie up loose ends in advance of our departure. If you’re interested in contributing a guest post, please let me know…

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