Garage sales can be an excellent way to both clear out clutter and make extra cash, but how can you ensure its success? Here’s our guide on what will help make your garage sale a success.
Prep work starts with organizing items neatly on tables and grouping similar products (clothes, books, tools, kitchen goods). You may also consider accepting credit cards via services like Square.
Organize Your Items
Organise all items prior to setting a time and date for your garage sale, and set an end time. Experienced garage sale attendees often arrive early so as to claim premium merchandise like near-new clothing or antique tools at bargain prices. Display these items prominently; consider grouping them by type (books together, clothes on hangers etc).
If you’re open to haggling over prices, bring along a credit card machine or payment apps such as Cash App and Venmo so customers can pay quickly and conveniently – this makes your sale more user-friendly for customers while helping to increase sales. Providing refreshments such as snacks or coffee also encourages them to linger at your sale longer.
Hang Up Signs
Garage sales can be an ideal way to turn unwanted items into extra money for spending on an indulgence, paying bills, or supporting causes you care about. Just make sure your wares are presented professionally.
Purchase or make large signs that can easily be read from the street. Display information like date, time, and address on each sign.
Experienced garage sale shoppers usually arrive early to secure the best bargains. By clearly marking that you don’t accept negotiations, bargain hunters may be less inclined to haggle over prices; although stragglers might still come along in hopes of picking up that 50 cent Happy Meal toy they may need for their child.
Advertise Your Sale
If you want your garage sale to be successful, advertising it will be essential. Make your event known online and in local bulletin boards; don’t forget to include details such as date, time, location and brief descriptions of items you will be selling!
Display premium merchandise like nearly new items, antiques and tools prominently to draw in early arriving garage sale shoppers who specialize in these types of purchases. Experienced garage sale shoppers are likely to take note and bid quickly on these pieces.
Set a Price
If you’re hosting a garage sale, making sure your prices are clearly marked is key to ensure customers find what they’re searching for quickly and will save both time and effort during the day of sale. By using colorful labels to easily identify each product’s price point and save customers from searching in vain for what they need will make shopping simpler and save both parties valuable time on-site.
Before hosting your own garage sale, visit local sales to gain insight into which prices work best. Also browse online listings of similar merchandise to see what others are charging.
As bargain-hunting customers will no doubt arrive at your garage sale, be prepared for some haggling. Negotiation can be fun and even help make extra dollars!
Make Change
As some garage sale customers may not bring exact change, it’s wise to visit a bank the day before your garage sale in order to stock up on quarters and $1 bills as well as plenty of tens, fives, and twenties should your items fall into this range.
An effective garage sale can be an invaluable way to earn extra cash and reclaim space in your home. With some careful planning and preparation, your sale should go off smoothly! Don’t forget that any unsold items can be donated – making you feel even more accomplished after it all comes together.
Hang Up Clothes
If you have lots of clothes to sell, use a clothing rack or ladder rungs to hang them on them for easier viewing by customers and to prevent bending over to examine items placed on tables.
Begin organizing your sale one day prior so you don’t end up trying to settle on prices at the last minute with customers waiting at your door.
Make sure that you have plenty of change on hand for customers, and consider taking alternative forms of payment such as Venmo or Square if it fits within your comfort level – this will increase sales while simultaneously making customers happy! This can help boost profits and ensure customer loyalty!
