Yard, rummage and garage sales are all great ways to rid your home of clutter; make a few extra dollars and meet the people in your community.
As soon as the weather begins to warm, people can be found on their lawns and in their garages, selling their wares.
Sometimes the items for sale are old junk and other times they are great treasures worth a good deal of money.
In many cases, the treasures are in the eye of the beholder.
If you are looking for a specific item and you are able to pick it up for dollar or two at a yard sale, you will feel as if you have found the deal of a the century.
As the seller, you will be happy to just have the extra space in your house once the junk is gone.
Planning a yard sale is easy, but there are a few important things to understand in advance.
Use pricing guns or price labels to add tags to each of your items.
You can still barter with buyers, but at least they know there is a solid starting point.
Once you have things priced, consider adding a sign to the sale stating you are willing to bargain.
This opens up the floor to offers and states you are willing to accept less than the dollar amount on the tag.
However, it lets people know you are interested in getting rid of the items on your property and if they were thinking of walking away because something was too expensive, they should give bargaining a shot.
If you are going to open the floor to offers, be sure to make the cost of the items a little higher than what you intend to settle for.
Good yard sales are advertised in advance.
You can take out an ad in the local newspaper, which is still where many people go to find information about upcoming sales.
However, there is a cost associated with listing an ad in the newspaper.
There are plenty of options for free advertising these days and many of them are more popular than the old-fashioned manner of alerting yard sale shoppers.
You can also post signs in your neighborhood the day of the sale.
Sometimes people just go out on popular yard sale days, typically the weekend, and drive around looking for sales.
To make a bigger impact with your sale, consider hosting with several families in your community.
A lot of shoppers are not willing to travel across town for a single sale, but if they think they will be able to shop the sales of several households, they will travel further.
Gather together with your neighbors and create a community sale.
Each of you retains all of your earning; you simply host your sales at the same time.
Your last step in planning a sale; is to decide where to have the sale.
Once the planning is done and you are about to put the items on a table or display in your yard, you should decide whether or not to sale or donate the items.
Do you want to make money or get rid of items? This priority is going to affect how you bargain with people.
If your goal is to clean out your home, be more flexible with the amount of money you are willing to accept from people.