How to Have a Successful Yard Sale

Are you thinking about doing a yard sale to clear your attic?

If so, I found a great knol by Jeremy Miller on how to have a successful yard sale that you might interested in.

Jeremy does a great job in listing things to do to run a yard sale, highly probable from his own experience. In my opinion, reading and following his many tips will definitely aid you running a yard sale, even if you have never done it before.

He explained that yard sale is hard work and require a simple but essential preparations. Here’s some of the great tips excerpted from Jeremy’s knol:

1. Advertise your yard sale online for free, on local newspaper, or on your local community bulletin boards.
2. Find out from and comply with your local laws and regulations about opening a yard sale.
3. Set a definite start and end time of your yard sale.
4. Consider placing price tags on top of all items.
5. Have some background music on.
6. On a hot day, consider kids or relatives running a lemonade stall.
7. Go through your on sale items to check whether they are dirty or have ‘secret items’ in them, such as money, receipts, etc.
8. Accept cash only transaction.
9. Have plastic grocery bags ready.
10. Put ‘all sales are final’ sign to avoid returns and refunds.

There are tens other tips on the knol. Please make sure you read the knol to give you a clean start and more hassle-free yard sale to do.

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