Garage Sale Results

We had a beautiful day for our garage sale and we have a little beautiful cash in our pockets. 

 
 
Helpful hints:

• Serious garage and yard salers get up with the roosters. Be set up by 6:30 AM.
• Ask a couple neighbors to join in and split the cost of a newspaper advertisement.
• Create bright visible signs.
• Have cash to make change.
• Display items in categories like sports, toys and electronics.
• Have a power source so electronics can be running so customers can have better confidence to buy.

 
 
Overall we’re happy with our results. We have a couple hundred dollars to spend on shelving to customize our closets. Rubbermaid (link) will help us make that an easy task, especially now that we’ve cleaned them out.

Importantly, we had a plan for what to do with the items that didn’t sell:

• Consignment stores are growing in popularity (link). The prom dresses and suits will go there.
• The comforter sets and file cabinet went to Goodwill. Our local store as an easy drive-thru with nice people to unload the car and give you a receipt for tax purposes. So easy!
• The men’s clothes went to our neighbors church ministry to help needy families and we got another tax receipt.

We have clean closets, a tidier garage and we helped our community. We feel pretty good about that.