Hey there, help with garage sale stuff?

[valis2]

I'm about to wander about the net and look for stuff about garage sales, since we're going to have the mother of all garage sales in July. Then it occurred to me to ask you guys, too.

See, I've never had a garage sale before. The location of my parents' house wasn't conducive to them.

So, pricing strategies? Pricing guides? Thoughts about pricing?

Advertising? Do people still put ads in the paper, or is there a new internet forum where one does such things now?

Signs?

Thoughts?

Any advice would be tremendously appreciated. Seriously. I have 1000 square feet of stuff to unload.

(Some of my work is done already. Apparently there is a very popular county fair that takes place just down the road from our house, so everyone does their garage sales that week. I'm planning on setting up for the six days of the show, seriously. I have white tents and extra tables, that sort of thing. And I plan on putting up nice signs--not cardboard crap--at all of the relevant spots.)

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[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Yes to the arrows! :D

I really wish I had some way to tell all the yardsalers whose sales I have skipped or missed because the signs were unclear ("Sale today!" -- well, when did they put that up? Today? Yesterday? Last week?) or the directions were impossible ("608 Saddler St." -- well, where is that in relation to this street corner? Even if I'm at Saddler, should I go left or right? Or else there's a paragraph of directions that nobody could read while driving past, without slowing down to a crawl).

[valis2.livejournal.com]

My OCD will no doubt take care of this--I'm already trying to figure out the exact locations for the signs, and put together the perfect wording and arrows. I'll go pick some nice signs up at the hardware store and work on those next week. And believe me, the biggest worry with my signs will be too much information, lol.