Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who commented in my last post. Your comments provided much food for thought. I would like to elaborate a bit on my "no-spending week" thoughts and lessons learned but thought I might do that tomorrow when my no-spend week officially finishes.
In an effort to build my nest egg and to maintain my clutter-free home, I've finally decided to have a garage sale this Sunday!!
Why a garage sale? Because there is a deceased estate auction in my street on Sunday and I figure there will be quite a lot of people in my street, so why not?
Now most of you will know that I don't really have that much stuff. In fact, I've only just started filling up my house! Having said that, there are still some things that the kids have outgrown, excess things (eg. tools I don't understand or need) from buying bigger lots at other deceased estate auctions, and books I've read over and over and now ready to let go.
I'm determined to NOT have clutter that I can't live with. I've been there and a cluttered home makes me feel awful. I find having no clutter makes my home a true sanctuary.
Still I admit, I don't have enough for a garage sale, BUT I do have family, neighbours and friends who do have stuff! So they're bringing their stuff over to sell too.
Now, 've been to garage sales where everything is immaculately clean, individually priced and displayed at its best. But I'm afraid people coming to my garage sale will not get that. I'm too lazy to be that organised about stuff I just want to get rid off. I'm getting rid of stuff because I want to get rid of it - not because I want to set up a shop.
TIPS FOR HAVING A GARAGE SALE WHEN YOU DON'T LIKE HAVING GARAGE SALES...
So with that in mind, here are my tips on how to do an easy garage sale:
1. Firstly, collect as many shallow boxes as you can. Shoe boxes, bulk tin goods boxes etc.
2. Label each box with price ranges - eg. $1 to $2 ea. Now go through the house and chuck everything you think would go in to that box.
3. On pieces of paper, write down more expensive prices - eg. $10 ea.
4. On the day (or night before), group your more expensive stuff together and place the appropriate price in front of it. That way, people know that everything in that pile is $10 ea or $20 ea. You may want to use a tarp or blanket to have clear "boundaries" for grouped items.
5. Make up signs - make them large. I made 2. One to go in front of my house and one to go to the turn off in my street. I might make one more for the other turn off in my street.... I'll see how I go.
6. For ONC'ers only - Advertise in allclassifieds.com.au - its free and they have a garage sale section.
And that's it! Anyway, wish me luck that I manage to get rid of it all!
10 comments:
At my last garage sale I also had a free box - stuff that I didn't think I could charge for but still wanted to get rid of. Lots of people took something from there.
Good luck for Sunday
Kylie
Best of luck with your Garage Sale!! I love going to a garage sale. :)
Wish I could drop in
Irene x
We are having a multi family garage sale soon - it's time after lots of salvo drop offs and the more $ stuff sold or not sold on ebay/gumtree. I'm looking forward to it! Clutter be gone!
A note for your readers - there is free classified on gumtree for each state, including a section for garage sales :)
Hope all your stuff flies away fast to new homes!
Good luck with your garage sale. I wish I could do that and get rid of my clutter, unfortunately my other half isnt amenable to that idea!
Jen
OK, I've tracked you down via the All Classifieds ad.. and you are not that far from me! I will come for some bargains and to finally meet you!! I will be on my way to a 4 year old fairy party and so will have one pretty little rainbow fairy, Little Miss M with me... you'll know it's me straight away!! See you then...
I am the garage sale queen. In years past I have made $1000 or more on items I no longer want. I was thinking about doing a post on Succesful Garage Sales and I think that will be the topic of my post tomorrow. Feel free to jump over and check it out http://frugalisgreenajourney.blogspot.com/
I don't spend hours getting things ready, but I have to say I like things neat, clean and ready to go. For me if a sale isn't organized I simply don't bother. I wish you the best of luck and hope the traffic from the Estate sale does you some good.
All the best for tomorrow E!! If I wasn't so far away, I'd lob over to help! <3
Hope the sale goes well! Might see if I can abscond from home duties and check it out, seeing as it's only a short walk away.
Oh, and the word verification on this comment was "nesting". Ha!
So nice to meet you today, Eilleen.. you are gorgeous and so are your kids! Hope the rest of the garage sale went well... thanks for heaps for our great bargains! Sorry I had to dash off quickly...
Good luck at the garage sale!
Another way to clear out the junk is to sell stuff at trash and treasure sales, if they have them near you.
I did this a couple of years ago (here is the link) a few times, and we made quite a few hundred dollars all up. I think we paid $20 entry.
It helps to do it with friends though - to keep an eye on things. Even so, we got stuff stolen from the stall. People are shameless :-(
So one thing I would suggest is to make sure you have more than one person do the garage sale with you, and keep a GOOD EYE on your cash box!
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