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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Monday, August 3, 2015
What Not to do at your Garage Sale
A friend of mine asked if I were ready to purge my belongings and join in with her for a garage sale. While I typically do not have garage sales, I let the delusion of making a bit of spending money guide me to say, "I'd love to!"
Garage Sale- an event where you display junque, trash, and other sentimental artifacts from your life so that the public may come handle them only to offer you less money than the already crazy cheap price that you deemed appropriate-- or they outright reject your items completely.
Here are some tips I picked up from experience:
1. Do not schedule your garage sale for the hottest days of summer.
Even if you hold it for a half day, the heat will sap your strength. The items you have displayed will heat up to searing temperatures and you risk being sued for burns when people pick it up.
2. Do not put candles in your garage sale if it is summer.
Within a short amount of time, you will no longer have a shaped or molded candle, but you will have a blob of wax.
3. Do not begin your garage sale too early in the morning.
While it is cooler early in the morning, it is guaranteed that your first customers will show up an hour before your opening time.
4. Do not price your items too high.
People will not even attempt to haggle your price if it is too high to start.
5. Do not underestimate your change needs.
Have enough one dollar bills, a few fives and tens, and many many quarters, dimes, and nickels. You will get $20 bills to pay for something that is 50 cents.
6. Do not buy your co-garage sale participant's stuff.
You are trying to make a little money, not take home other people's junque.
7. Do not neglect to have a plan for disposing the leftovers.
The last thing you want to do is carry everything back in your home. Slash prices even more, use social media to advertise, be willing to donate to charity so that you avoid keeping your things.
How did I do at the garage sale you ask? Well, I sold everything I contributed and made a little money. Then I promptly bought some of my friend's things. It could've been worse-- I came home with a net profit of negative $8.50 and a trunk full of new treasures to find places for in my home.
Garage Sale- an event where you display junque, trash, and other sentimental artifacts from your life so that the public may come handle them only to offer you less money than the already crazy cheap price that you deemed appropriate-- or they outright reject your items completely.
Here are some tips I picked up from experience:
1. Do not schedule your garage sale for the hottest days of summer.
Even if you hold it for a half day, the heat will sap your strength. The items you have displayed will heat up to searing temperatures and you risk being sued for burns when people pick it up.
2. Do not put candles in your garage sale if it is summer.
Within a short amount of time, you will no longer have a shaped or molded candle, but you will have a blob of wax.
3. Do not begin your garage sale too early in the morning.
While it is cooler early in the morning, it is guaranteed that your first customers will show up an hour before your opening time.
4. Do not price your items too high.
People will not even attempt to haggle your price if it is too high to start.
5. Do not underestimate your change needs.
Have enough one dollar bills, a few fives and tens, and many many quarters, dimes, and nickels. You will get $20 bills to pay for something that is 50 cents.
6. Do not buy your co-garage sale participant's stuff.
You are trying to make a little money, not take home other people's junque.
7. Do not neglect to have a plan for disposing the leftovers.
The last thing you want to do is carry everything back in your home. Slash prices even more, use social media to advertise, be willing to donate to charity so that you avoid keeping your things.
How did I do at the garage sale you ask? Well, I sold everything I contributed and made a little money. Then I promptly bought some of my friend's things. It could've been worse-- I came home with a net profit of negative $8.50 and a trunk full of new treasures to find places for in my home.
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