Yard sales are a lot of fun, and can be very profitable if carried out properly. Round up your friends, family, and neighbors, and schedule a fun day of organizing your yard sale inventory. With the right amount of people involved, you will be surprised at how quickly you will be ready to sell, sell, sell! Here are some guidelines to get you started in Littleton, CO:
- Collect Your Clutter Year Round. Label a Yard sale box, and start throwing all of your unwanted junk and clutter in it.
- Have A Plan. A week before the sale, go through your clutter boxes and organize. Get your signs together, and price everything. A day before the sale do some final organizing and get ready to make some mulah!
- Team Up. Find friends or family to team up with. Not only does this arrangement mean you have more stuff to sell and more variety in sizes and types of things offered, it also means you have more help.
- Location, Location, Location. Be sure people can see and access the yard sale easily.
- Timing is Everything. Check the local weather, and get started in the early morning. A nice day will bring many more customers.
- Clearly Mark Your Prices. It’s easy to want to just stick a big sign on a table saying that everything on that table is a quarter, but, in the long-run, it is much more efficient to go ahead and put price stickers on everything. Instead of having to make up prices on the spot, people will know exactly how much something is. In addition, some people are too shy to ask the price of an item, so you’ll lose a sale if an item isn’t marked.
- Price Things to Sell. Price sale items on the low end and have someone actually buy, rather than to have 25 people pick up the items and put them back down on the table because they are too expensive.
- Advertise Well. Put some time and effort into making a number of quality, clearly-readable signs which you put in conspicuous places to easily lead to your home. The brighter, bolder and bigger the sign, the better. Put an ad out on Craigslist and Facebook as well.
- Mark Things Down on the Last Day. Things are usually pretty picked over by the last day of the sale. That’s the perfect opportunity to get creative and hand out rock-bottom bargains! “Fill a Bag for a Buck” is extremely effective.
- Do not forget Cookies and Lemonade. Baked goods–like homemade cookies and bars–sell extremely well at our garage sales. Also, it is a great way to teach your children entrepreneurial skills and let them earn a little money in the process.
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It may be a little early in the season to have a yard sale, but it is never too early to prepare and start organizing your clutter. A successful yard sale depends on many factors, including the competition. The average consumer is very smart these days and have many resources at their fingertips for pricing, value, etc… so you need to be a little familiar with sales in order to maximize your profit. If you have leftover clutter that you are going to throw out after your yard sale is over, donate it!
Be sure to check with the front office to see if there is already an organized neighborhood sale, and advertise your yard sale on our Facebook page.
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