Any tips on having a garage sale?

A couple of my friends and i are planning to have a garage sale before the summer is over. We wanted to know if there are any peticular days of the week to have it, to have it more than one day, and whatever else you know. We obviously want to keep our money separate, and we don’t know exactly how to do that either.

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The best time to do garage/yard sales are on Fridays and Saturdays. Also, if you can plan it for the first 2 weekends of the month you will do better. The reasoning is that people usually have more money the first 2 weeks of the month than the do the last 2 weeks of the month.

To keep money separate the easiest way to do this is to label everything with stickers that have the prices on the item and then the persons initials that the item belongs to. So a sticker would have say $1 – S. (The price then your initial if it was your item) When an item is sold simply take the sticker off the item and put the sticker in a notebook. This way you have track of how much money each person should have at the end of the day. Remember to make note if you take a lower price for something.

Change – Make sure you start the day off with enough change. We usually try to do $100 in cash(50 -$1s, 6-$5s, 2-$10s) and then $25.00 in coins.
Prices – Try to keep things as low as possible, remember people are looking for bargains. Never be offended when someone ask if you could do a better price. Work with people and you’ll end up making money instead of losing it because you were too cheap to come down on the price. Clothing I would price low but price a little higher for name brand clothes.

The Gamecube and accessories I would price at $30 -$40. If you have games I would price them at $5.00/game.

Also, something that people neglect to do is advertise. THIS WILL MAKE OR BREAK YOU. The person who advertises their sale the best will do the best.

Hope this helps and good luck!

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