How to Organize a Neighborhood Yard Sale

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose a date to hold your sale.

   Be sure to put your phone number and email address on your fliers. , Go through a closet or a drawer anytime you get the chance, and as you pull out things for your sale, go right ahead and mark them with prices, using a marker and some tape.
   
   Put the items in a bag or the box, and tuck them away in the basement or the garage. , Do this about a week to 10 days before the sale. , Advertising is important here.
   
   People won't come to a garage sale with a lopsided piece of cardboard as a sign.
   
   Get a good piece of hardboard, and paint on your message in white. ,, It is easier to say go to 9th and 10th rather than 1000 9th st, because now they have to look that up. ,, If you need to set up on a driveway or yard, have everything near the door so you can run it all out and set it up quickly in the morning. , One: so people don't come back the next week looking for the yard sale.
   
   Two: most city ordinances requires signs be removed.
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   Step 2: Make up some flyers about six weeks ahead of your sale date to let your neighbors know about your sale and ask them to join in.

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   Step 3: Find and prepare the the items you wish to sell.

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   Step 4: Send out another flyer reminding your neighbors that the time has come.

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   Step 5: Try to paint the signs.

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   Step 6: Advertise in your local paper or an online classified site.

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   Step 7: Include general street intersections

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   Step 8: where you have signs

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   Step 9: in your listing that will make it really simple.

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    Step 10: Ask a participating neighbor to make some signs and put them out on busy street corners the night before the sale.

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    Step 11: Arrange everything in your garage the night before.

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    Step 12: Remove your sign after the sale for several reasons.

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