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Make Money Buying And Selling In Yard Sales And Garage Sales
at Christmas time. This way, I will already have my contributions and won't need to go out and spend more money during the holiday season.
Yard sales are a great way to make some extra money, also. Plus, you can get rid of unwanted items at the same time. My daughter and I recently held a sale and here are some of the things we learned.
Put up signs. The newspaper goofed the weekend of our sale and left out all that week's yard sales. So we had to depend on our signs. Put as many out as you can. Find out ahead of time what kind of ordinances your town has about placement.
Take the time to make your signs...we bought ours and about halfway through the first morning, we noticed that we weren't getting any customers. So we checked out our signs--and they were gone! We put out more and the customers started coming again. But it was costly.
And when you make your signs, be sure to make them sturdy enough to stand up in the wind and also be sure your lettering is large enough to be seen by people driving by in cars. I think a large arrow pointing in the direction they need to go is helpful.
Be sure to plainly mark your items. It will save you lots of time during the sale if you don't have to talk to each customer about the price of every item. If you aren't sure what prices to ask, it might Previous Page <<< >>> Next Page
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