Time to start planning your garage sale!
After a very long winter (for me anyway), it is time to start thinking about your garage sale. I always have a lot of stuff to sell and therefore I allow myself at least 4 weeks to get ready.
Here are a few tips to get you started.
Beginning the Garage Sale Planning Process:
1. Set a Date
decide when you want to have your garage sale. Choose a weekend that you can expect a lot of traffic, like the town’s local celebration days, but not when a neighboring town has something big going on.
Make sure you allow yourself enough time to prepare, I recommend 4 weeks of planning and preparation (if you have a lot of stuff) in order to have a successful money making sale!
Some people discourage having a sale on holiday weekends, but I have had very successful sales on Memorial Weekend. We have lots of traffic going through town to the lakes and people are so anxious to get out after being cooped up all winter.
Decide what days you will have your sale. In my area, Fridays are the best days, so I usually run the sale on Friday 8-5 or 6 and Saturday 8-12 or 1. 3 days sales are usually not worth your time, people know you have been open for 2 days and therefore… the good stuff is gone!
You can also do quite well with a one day sale, just be sure to state “One Day Only” when you advertise.
2. Taking Inventory
get a notebook and a pen and go through each room in your house to decide what items you are ready to part with. Write it down in your notebook or I have Garage Sale Inventory worksheets included in my Garage Sale Planner:)
3. Start Gathering Inventory
you can do this one room at a time or by similar items, like all clothing first, all toys and so on. Box or bag them up and move them to a designated area where you will prepare and price them later.
This should keep you busy for a while:) Next we will talk about preparing and pricing your treasures!
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Recommended Resources:
— Last year I wrote Secrets of Successful Garage Sales & Planner, it is a 20 page ebook filled with tips, techniques and advice for planning and having your sale and the Planner includes 11 easy planning pages, such as: a 4 week time line of things to do, inventory sheets, garage sale ad, planning your layout, sales records, donation list and a complete garage sale cheklist., plus the bonus pricing guide!
— Declutter Fast by Mimi Tanner – If you are anything like me, you are planning to do extensive inventory gathering for your garage sale! Why not do your decluttering at the same time? She has a great method for getting rid of the clutter, her ebook is easy to follow and read. I truly enjoyed it and it helped me to get more control over my clutter!
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One more little tidbit before I sign off!
If you have some valuable children’s clothing items that you can’t bear to sell for garage sale prices, this is the time to be selling them on eBay. The summer clothing selling season actually begins in February, is in full swing right now and usually winds down by May.
Just a couple of quick tips for selling kid’s clothing on eBay:
1. Research like items to get an idea of price ranges
2. Prepare your items, make sure they are clean and in great condition
3. Take great pictures and lots of them
4. Describe the clothing and the condition…be honest
5. List your item, I have had success with either a very low starting price autcion (like .99) or a fixed price auction with a Best Offer option
Now, if you have never tried selling on ebay before, don’t worry it is not difficult. EBay has free tutorials that will show you How Things Work, How to Buy and How to Sell.
What are the first things you do to begin the garage sale planning process?
Have a fabulous day!
Tashia
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