How to Throw a Successful Yard Sale
Have you ever shopped at a garage sale? Garage sales are the best when it comes to finding inexpensive and unique items.
Throwing a yard/garage sale requires a little bit of planning but selling unwanted items from your home helps others who might have a need for them. Here is a guide to throwing a successful and rewarding garage sale:
1. Select items you want to sell.
All yard sales are different because the sellers always have different items. Some sellers travel pretty often so they might have a few items from around the world or from a long time ago. Yard sales are also helpful for the environment since you are not receiving your items in excess packaging like you would in a store or by shopping online.
2. Be prepared to meet new people.
Yard sales are great for meeting new people! While the pandemic is currently preventing many from being able to socialize, it doesn’t mean we can’t plan for a garage sale in the future.
3. Know that there will be leftovers.
You can choose to throw the garage sale on multiple days if you would like to sell a lot of your items but there are also other options as to what to do with your leftover items. If you have any appliances, furniture, or housewares that did not sell, you can always donate them to your local Habitat for Humanity ReStore!
Donate to the Richmond Metropolitan Restore
Helpful Tips
- To sell a lot in your yard sale is to make it the most attractive it can be. This might mean cutting the grass, putting prices on everything, turning on anything you’re selling such as a TV, putting batteries in an item that requires it, organize stuff so thta it is easier for people to look through rather than struggle, include background music to make it more relaxing, you could even sell sodas or have a lemonade stand, fill up any empty spots on the tables as things get sold.
- Be prepared to deal with whatever type of people shoe up to your yard sale. You might run across shoplifters, or people with bad intentions. You can feel better by inviting a neighbor or friend to join you in your yard sale.
- Don’t forget to take you yard sale signs down when you are done.
You never know what or who you will find when shopping or throwing a garage/yard sale.
