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Price for Garage Sale Food

How much should I charge for a bottle of water, can of soda, box of juice, a brownie, a cookie, and a Rice Krispy treat?

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Garage Sale Tips and Tricks

This is a guide about garage sale tips and tricks. Knowing a few tips and tricks can help make your garage sale successful.

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Labor Day Weekend Yard Sale

Usually Memorial Day and Labor Day are big yard sale days, but I have noticed it depends on your area. Let's be positive and say your area is big on yard sales these days. Labor Day is just around the corner.

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Promoting Your Garage Sale

This is a guide about promoting your garage sale. Having a garage sale can be be a lot of work with little reward if very few people show up. Promoting your garage sale will help ensure you have a successful sale.

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Throwing a Neighborhood Garage Sale

This is a guide about throwing a neighborhood garage sale. Organizing a neighborhood garage sale can be a fun and lucrative event. There are many things to coordinate to have a successful sale.

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Ideas for a Dollar Yard Sale

I am thinking of doing a yard sale and marking just about everything at or under a dollar. Most items are office related, folders, binders, etc. and some household items and small toys.

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Planning a Church Yard Sale

I need help planning a yard sale at my church. I have never planned a yard sale before and I like things to be well organized.

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Free Wire Coat Hangers

I am having a huge moving sale and need 200-300 wire hangers. Where can I find them for free? I would be willing to pay shipping.

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Getting Paid to Help a Friend Move and Stage a Garage Sale

A friend is hiring me to help move and stage a garage sale. How much do I charge to help her set up? This is a business transaction and she is willing to pay me per hour or a percentage of the sales. Which is best?

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Advice for Organizing and Selling Off Clutter

I worked for an apt complex for 9 yrs. Our residents were mostly college students. When they graduated and moved a lot of them left everything behind.

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Admire Gardens While At Garage Sales

I love to garden but I also like to spend leisure time at garage sales; sometimes I combine the two. Whenever the host(ess) of the sale is an avid gardener, I often admire their work and tell them so.

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Preparing to Take Part in a Community Yard Sale

I am going to be taking part in a community yard sale that is going to be held in a church parking lot. Should I make my own signs? What can I do to make my booth stand out from the others?

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Planning a Downsizing Sale

What is the best way to price and collect the money from a "moving to a smaller place sale"? I am having to help my parents downsize and everything must go! I need a good way to make it easy for my parents and me. The sale will be inside the whole house.

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Reusing Yard Sale Price Stickers

The yard sale season has begun in the area where I live. I have already purchased many items this year that were priced with either "store-bought" price stickers or purchased labels with the price hand-written.

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How Do I Have a Successful Yard Sale?

I am having a yard sale in a few weeks. I have 10 garbage bags filled with baby girl clothes 0-12 months. Some clothes have never been worn, but most are in great shape. Can I get some tips on how to display, price, and where to advertise? Thanks in advance.

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My Frugal Life: Have a Garage Sale

My Frugal Life: Have a Garage SaleI think the best frugal thing I can think of that everyone can do is have a garage sale. I have had one every year for many years either by myself, with my daughter or a friend.


My Frugal Life - Why I Love Yard Sales

My Frugal Life - Why I Love Yard SalesYard Sales are on during the spring and summertime. Honestly, yard sales are truly a money saving thing for me. I am a person who finds treasure in somebody's trash.