by Kerry Johnson

Created on: May 01, 2009

1. Set your date as soon as you know your wanting to have a yard sale and as far as possible. Know your neighborhood; know when the large employer's in your area pay their employee's. Do you have a significantly large population of elderly or families receiving government assistance? Plan around those times and make sure you're not planning it for a holiday weekend.

2. A few weeks ahead decide what type of yard sale you want to have. Do you want to have a Church yard sale, a single family yard sale, a multi family sale or a neighborhood yard sale? Just remember, the more sellers you have the more word of mouth you get. Share in the costs and time related to the sale. Get someone to collect the money for the ads, someone else to do the flyers while others can post flyers and hang posters around town.

3. Advertise, Advertise, Advertise! If you have no plans to advertise your sale you might as well not put forth the effort of putting stuff out in your yard. Place ads in your local paper, some paper's offer yard sale listings for free. Be sure to check on their deadline date. It's so frustrating to send in your ad only to later find out you didn't get it to the publisher in time. Post on www.craigslist.com its free and very popular.

4. Put posters up everywhere, business windows, crossroads, community calendar's or anywhere that the public passes through. Make a poster to tape to your car window, be sure to park in well trafficked areas. Clearly post start time, but be prepared most seasoned yard sale shoppers believe "the early bird gets the worm" and stops in 30 minutes or so early "just in case" you have everything out and ready.

5. The week before your sale start getting ready by putting price tags on everything. Make signs for your sale such as "Everything Negotiable" or "5 Books for $1" or signs saying "After 2PM everything off". You can price everything with labels, stickers, masking tape and markers. Be sure to put the price on the top of items so it's easily seen. Price things about to 1/3 of what something might cost new. Depending on what condition your item is in will give you a better idea of how much to ask for each item. Be reasonable and know people are looking for a bargain. Take a few extra minutes to get your sale items clean and in an organized fashion.

6. Know what the lowest amount you're willing to take on an item. Have the items out so people can see what you are selling. They can't buy what they don't see. Display is important! Display your

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