Yard Sale Tips and hints - Continued

Pricing your items is important. The purpose of a yard sale is to clean out your unwanted items. Remember what you do not sell will have to be lugged back in or lugged to a donation center. Either way this stuff needs to go! Price your items simply. Don’t price something for $1.99.

Encourage people to buy more with your prices. For example, if you marked paperback books for .25 cents each or 5 books for a $1.00. You will get rid of more this way. Always be flexible. If your items do not seem to be moving then reduce them. If you have a lot of clothing items offer them at a single item price or price for a bag. For example, offer .25 cents per item of clothing or $3.00 a bag. This will get more off your hands. Also have batteries on hand to test out battery-operated items.

Always be prompt with opening. You will always have that one early bird that is there a half hour before you expected to open (opening early depends on you), but opening at the time advertised is expected. 

Just remember that the guide to a successful yard sale is three simple steps: advertising, pricing, and weather. We cannot control the weather so when advertising also put an alternate rain date to hold your yard sale.

Hope you have a successful yard sale.