5 Tips to Make Your Garage Sale a Success

It's time!  Clean out that over stuffed hall closet! Rummage through the back of your kitchen cabinets!  Make room in your dresser for that new summer wardrobe!  Call your friends and tell them to to jump on the bandwagon!  You're having a garage sale!  And it's going to be smash hit with these 5 tips!  You'll clean out your place and hopefully make enough cash to replenish your shoe closet!

Put Everything On Sale-  And I mean everything!  When you're cleaning out closets, looking for goodies to sell,  don't throw anything away.  You never know what people will buy!  One persons trash is another persons treasure!  Make some cash on something you might want to just throw away!

Loads of Advertizing-  Accurate advertizing is one key to a great garage sale.  Brightly colored signs with the place, date, hours and what you've got on sale will draw people in.  Also think about advertizing in a local paper or on craigslist.org!

Sell What's Popular-  So what's popular at garage sales?  Antiques are always a great bet.  It may not matter what condition an antique is in, collectors probably want it.  Handmade items are also hot.  If you have old handmade aprons or kookie ceramics, they'll sell like hotcakes at a garage sale.  Do you have an overflowing fig tree in your back yard?  Sell that produce at your garage sale and turn it into money instead of rotten fruit!

Keep items off the ground-  If you can, set up your tiems on a folding table, or old ping pong table. You may have more success in selling them.  Your wares will be in better view, and easier to rach if they're on a table!

Price Items for Group Sale-  It's a great idea to price as many things as possible prior to the sale.  That way, people will know without asking how much a particular item is.  Also, items sell faster if they are priced together.  Label drinking glasses 6 for $1 instead of 15 cents each, they'll sell in no time!