Pointers to A Successful Garage Sale

I know I have not posted in a while. If you will check out our other blogs here, here and here, you'll understand why. I have been sick lately. I just could not pass up this opportunity to share with you some pointers even as mother has planned to hold her very own garage sale very soon.

Here are quick tips to remember:

1. First and foremost, check with your local officials or your village if you would be needing a permit to hold your garage sale. The last thing you would need is the hassle that could be caused by officials asking you for permits that you never knew you have to get a hold of.

2. Arrange the items to be sold per category. If you think you do not have enough items to be sold, ask friends and neighbors to participate.

3. Post advertisements with time, place date of your garage sale event on shops, supermarkets, bus stops, street corners provided you will not get in trouble for doing this.

4. Properly price your items with tags or tapes (keep in mind: when in doubt, lower your price)

5. Group items by category.

6. Be prepared to bargain. You are after all doing this to get rid of extra stuff. Reduce your prices a tad during the last two hours of your sale date.

7. Give all the leftover items to your church or charity.

Written in association with wooden garage door suppliers.

Trade Off System

This is something rather unpopular. When we buy things, this is especially true for shopaholics, there is a tendency to hoard without our knowing it. I have been especially made conscious about this when I watched on Oprah how some people develop to be "hoarders" over time.

A trade off system is what I figured would make sense and can be a very effective tool to combat this disorder called "hoarding." This is how it works, when you decide to buy anything for the house, make sure to give something away or discard those that you no longer use. Of course, first thing to consider is, that the things you discard or give away should belong to you.

We make sure to practice this right inside our home. When we are given the blessing to be able to buy new things, we put aside a thing or two to give away to bless others too. This is a practice that would help our souls not to attach ourselves to material things that we do not make use of to begin with. :d