WRITTEN BY
AMY BENTLEY
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dE-CLUTTER yOUR dIgS WHILE EARNINg ExTRA CASH FOR SUmmER WITH A FAmILy yARd SALE
host a Family
Yard sale
Sale Essentials: tables for displaying
items ✽ chairs ✽ clothing racks to
hang/display clothes ✽ extension cords
plastic grocery bags for purchases
early to set up. Display children’s toys garage sale will lure tons of people to
a money box ✽ Recycle receptacles for
on the ground so little ones can see your street—what better way for the kids
unwanted merchandise
and play with them. If you are selling to snag customers!
merchandising Tips: enhance the perceived
anything that uses electricity, have an After the sale, donate leftover items (the
value of clothes by cleaning and tossing them
extension cord handy so customers can Salvation Army will pick up large items
into the dryer to remove wrinkles; then hang
verify the item works. Also, have plenty in good condition) and decide as a family
on hangers, organized by type and size.
of $1 and $5 bills on hand to make change how to spend your earnings. You can use ✽ Separate and organize items on a table by
for customers and make sure everyone this opportunity to teach your kids about room functionality (e.g., kitchen, bathroom,
in the family who’s participating has a charity by deciding to donate a portion
outdoor, etc.) ✽ place one big-ticket item
place to sit. of your sales to a favorite non-profit
close to the street and the rest of your “good
A fun way to get the little ones involved organization. (To find a worthy cause, visit
stuff” in the back to draw people in and
is by having them sell cold bottles of charitynavigator.org which lists more than
oblige them to look at the other things you
are selling. ✽ clearly label any item that is
water or cans of soda kept chilled in a 5,000 U.S. charities.) Then sit back, relax
not for sale, i.e. the chairs you are sitting
cooler. If they are especially industrious, and enjoy a cold cup of lemonade…on
on, your radio, phone, etc. ✽ put customer
kids can even set up a lemonade stand, the house!
purchases in plastic grocery bags—people
selling small cups of drinks and home- For more yard sale tips, visit
tend to buy more if they don’t have to have
made cookies or brownies for $1. Your navl.com/er-garage-sales.aspx.
their arms & hands full of odds and ends.
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