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How To Host A Yard Sale

When Sherry and I hosted our first yard sale over four years ago, we remember feeling rushed to get everything outside and set up, being stressed about how to price everything, and constantly obsessing over how much money we had made as the day went on. It’s like we were both so excited to sell stuff that we didn’t like (so we could go buy more stuff that we did like) that it became a bigger deal than we initially expected.

Yard Sale 0 2008

Fast forward a few years (we also had a moving sale back in 2010) and we found ourselves hosting another clear-things-out yard sale now that it’s 2012 (I guess our pattern is every two years?), but this time we aimed for a distinctly more relaxed attitude. Why? Because this is how we approached it:

  • Our singular goal was to get rid of stuff. Any money that we made was just icing.
  • We sold a few higher-value items on craigslist ahead of time (to get more money for them and not have to stress about them during the sale).
  • Everything else was priced to sell. If someone picked it up, we wanted them to take it even if it meant selling it very cheaply.

We were so focused on getting rid of stuff because somewhere between moving to this new house (and not having a use for everything that worked in our first house) and generally collecting items for various blog and book projects, we found more and more of our house turning into storage (hello playroom or basement – even our sunroom was filling up). So it was about time to send a slew of stuff home with other folks (where it would get more love than we could show it, and free up three rooms that we’d love to be functional for us instead of piles o’ stuff).

Oh and since we know folks will ask- the reason we didn’t tell the entire interweb about our yard sale was safety and manageability. We didn’t want to dole out our home address to the world at large, and since we didn’t want to spend extra money and time hauling everything to a more neutral location (the goal was to get rid of stuff simply and cheaply), it just had to be something that we did the old fashioned way- with signs and an ad on craigslist without revealing we were the hosts. Hope you guys understand!

Yard Sale 1 Sign

Even though we were trying to keep it low key, it still took a bit of pre-planning on our part. We had to pin down what we wanted to kick out of the house for good, so last month we got our purge-hats on, sorted through closets, cabinets, and full rooms to sift out what we could part with. We did our best to be ruthless. If it hadn’t been used in a while and we couldn’t articulate a specific future use for the item, it got moved right to the yard sale pile. That pile lived in our sunroom for the days leading up to the sale, but starting bright and early (actually it wasn’t even bright yet) on that Saturday morning it all made its way out into the driveway.

Yard Sale 2 Early Morning

Our inventory was actually a mix of our stuff and my sister’s – although some of the tables that you see below were just for display (we didn’t sell those two white pedestal guys on the right). We didn’t bother pricing anything ahead of time (again, this is our low key approach) and since we both agreed that the goal was purging, we didn’t stress about how accurately our prices were set (truth be told, they were all probably lower than they could have been, but it meant things moved quickly and no one walked out empty handed). For us, if someone left with something, that was a victory. It was really freeing to just say “how about a dollar?” and watch things clear out nice and quick. Of course the bigger items like chairs and dressers and bookcases went for a little more, but all of the stuff on the tables and laid out on blankets was pretty much a dollar or less. I think if you’re in the mindset that we were in our first sale you might want to price things higher, but it does mean that you run the risk of selling a lot less.

Yard Sale 3 John Walking

We didn’t get any great shots of the sale in action since there was, well, lots of action that kept us both busy. It was only at lulls like this that we broke out the camera. But this was after around 60% of our items had sold.

Yard Sale 4 View From Carport

The crowd was pretty strong through about 10am. When things started to slow down, Sherry and I made the decision to expedite the process and we dropped prices to ridiculous lows. At this point the goal of getting rid of stuff overrode even our patience to sit in our driveway all morning. Yup, we priced our pile of kids clothes at five for fifty cents, pillows were two for $1, and we even stuck “free” stickers on items like the old ladder that the previous owners had left in our basement (easy come, easy go).

Yard Sale 5 Prices

Oh yeah, and if you’re wondering where Clara was this whole time, her Grammy took her on an outing when she woke up around 8am (we were up a few hours before she arose setting things up, and were so grateful that she slept so long) and then returned her around 11am. After that she just hung out and upped the cute factor of our sale by drawing in the driveway.

Yard Sale 6 Clara Coloring

By about noon things were so slow (and our inventory was so low), that we were actually only left with these four big-ish items (and about 30 small things that fit into two manageable Goodwill boxes). So we slapped a “free” sign on the few remaining large items and posted a curb alert on craigslist for them.

Yard Sale 7 Free Stuff

They were all gone within a few hours. Hooray for curb alerts. The great thing about them is that you don’t even have to be home. Which was handy since we weren’t. We were busy dropping off those two boxes of leftover stuff at Goodwill. Yard sale key: nothing comes back into the house!

Yard Sale 8 Goodwill Drop Off

By the end of the day I think we made somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 at the sale itself. Not our most profitable, but once you throw in what we made by selling a few items on craigslist ahead of time we were more in the neighborhood of $650. Not bad, right? As for those other items that we sold on the side (via craigslist & neighborly word of mouth) we happily sent all eight of our old dining room chairs off to live with someone else (she’s planning to recover them all – and send us pics!).

Yard Sale Chairs In Car

And we also sold our two extra new dining chairs to another person (for our purchase price of $62 each) who already sent us this photo of them living it up on her porch:

Porch Chairs

It felt great to give all of that stuff a nice new home. The lesson there? Had we wanted to make more money we would’ve sold more stuff on craigslist. But since photographing, listing, and coordinating pick-ups eats up lots of time, it was more efficient to achieve our “get-rid-of-all-the-things!” mission by putting most of our stuff in a kill-a-million-birds-with-one-stone yard sale. In the end, we’re both really happy with how the yard sale turned out – mostly because it taught us that we don’t need to be all uptight about hosting one. Which will hopefully encourage us to hold them more frequently and keep unwanted things from building up in our house.

Has anyone else hosted a yard sale recently? Do you have any tips or interesting stories from yours? We had a tense moment during ours when our wires got crossed and Sherry accepted money for an item that I had already set aside for someone else. Neither woman would back down so we did the mature thing and let a coin toss decide who took it home. Take that Judge Judy!

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  2. Lindsey d. says

    Wow.. I’m surprised you sold that awesome rocking chair with the cool Ikat recover. I hope someone appreciates it!

    I have the same garage sale rule — price cheap and get it OUT!

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  4. Marie says

    We just hosted a yard sale a coiple weeks ago with the same mantra: Nothing comes back in the house! We ended up making around $550 which was fabulous. Even better was how clean the house and garage felt without useless clutter.

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  7. Emily says

    We’re actually hosting one tomorrow and I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, not to be super stressed. Thanks for the great tips. I’m already finding them useful as I get organized in my head. Although we’re trying to make some money, the extra “profit” we might pull by pricing everything at a fair-for-the-seller price isn’t worth the hastle of the work and worry. Because, you’re so right – we want stuff gone. I think we made a mistake of offering some friends to join ours so it can be a multi-family sale, so a bit more coordinating is required, but I’m hoping it draws a bigger crowd so we’ll see. Thanks again (and sorry for the super long comment)!

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    • Lindsey d. says

      We used color-coded tags for our multi-family sale last year. Write prices on the stickers for each item. Then pull the stickers off the items and stick them into a notebook as they sell (note if the price changed/haggled). At the end, add up the various colors and split up the money. Only downside is that you have to price each item, so no “Two shirts for $5.00” sign.

  8. Kristen | Popcorn on the Stove says

    Joe and I always slow down when we drive past a yard sale (or a piece of furniture on the side of the road) but the ones by us tend to be more junk (think super old items or things that are missing pieces & no one could ever want) and less furniture/accessories. Oh well!

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  10. Holly says

    We used to stash our stuff for yard sales, but we found that we got more value out of donating it to charity and claiming it on our tax returns. So now I have one area of my house that I put things I no longer need, and every few months I make that trip to good will. I keep careful notes of what I donate so that when we do the taxes we know exactly what has been donated. Our tax software even figures out the values for us. I have way less clutter, and I don’t have to spend hours setting up and running garage sales. AND we get more back on our tax return then we ever would have made trying to sell the stuff! Ka-Ching!

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    • Michelle says

      I agree–tax right offs are great if you itemize on your return. Before we moved into our house we didn’t have enough deductions to beat the standard, so this was the first year when I could count up all the clothes, books, etc we have donated. It really adds up fast!! I put the value at about 1/3 of the original cost, so when I take in a bag of clothes it can easily add up to hundreds of dollars!

  11. Steph says

    I think it’s awesome that someone got your gorgeously redone rocking chair. I wish the yard sales I go to had stuff that nice!
    My only yard sale memory was setting up a blanket of my toys I didn’t want as a kid at my family yard sale. I was maybe 6 or 7, and made a sign saying “everything on this blanket is $1”. Well some lady tried taking advantage of my poorly worded sign and argued for a while that she should get everything on the blanket for $1, since my sign was so misleading! (never mind the fact that a kid obviously wrote it!) I remember tearfully begging my parents not to make me give it all to her, haha. She ended up huffing and puffing out of there after that!

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    • carlotta says

      huuu another Italian reader! Hi there! Yes I wonder that too, I would have so much stuff to give up…

  13. Claudie says

    I am very jealous of the person that took home that rocking chair! It’s great to see that you gave away the rest (to the curb or to Goodwill). I think that’s one of the most important steps of a yard sale. :)

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  14. heather s. says

    Oooh…I would not have liked your yard sale since I hate when things aren’t priced – it drives me crazy. ;)

    I’ve been selling some things on Craigslist since I have way too much furniture in my small home and you’re right – taking pictures, writing up posts and dealing with no-shows is so much work!

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  15. Chelsea @ Riding Escalators says

    I wish we had the time/energy/enthusiasm to pull together a yard sale! Usually we end up putting everything outside and calling the Purple Hearts folks to pick it all up as a donation! But it would be nice to make even a few bucks off some of it!

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  16. Ashlee says

    My neighborhood has an annual yard sale each year the first weekend in June. Most families drag the same things out, year after year, and try to sell the old dusty items at full retail??? Of course, I have always advocated the rock & roll approach (love a 5 for $1!…with the caveat you have to take 5). Whatever remains at 11 a.m. gets boxed up into “mystery boxes” and sold for $3 each. I used to try “free” but found people were more likely to take it at a low, low price versus free. Of course my neighbors were out in their driveways until 4 pm, without selling a thing. Crazy cakes!

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    • Ashlee says

      I group my mystery box items into categories; kitchen, household, ladies clothing, books, etc. That gives people a general idea of the contents, but no digging through the box before purchase! For some reason this fascinates people & the boxes go really fast. It has eliminated my post sale Goodwill errand!

    • Lindsey d. says

      Ha! In my neighborhood, when we started saying everything was free, people looked at us like we were crazy, confirmed the “price” and started grabbing stuff up! At the end of an eight person/couple yard sale, we had two boxes left for Goodwill.

    • YoungHouseLove says

      Haha! After years of trying to find the perfect spot for it, I fessed up to the fact that it just worked better in someone else’s house. A really nice lady bought it (for what we spent to buy/redo it) so I was glad!

      xo
      s

  18. Crystal @ 29 Rue House says

    Very good timing! I was just telling Aaron that I’ve been thinking about doing a yard sale (although it will have to wait for the spring). I definitely want to keep it low key and as stress free of an ordeal as I can!

    P.S. Did you only get rid of kids clothes that you don’t want anymore or all of them? I don’t want to part with mine (or pick through them) until I’m sure we’re done.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      I had this reckoning with myself that I was putting clothes Clara never wore into bins for the possible next kid and I realized if she never wore them (for reasons of them being not practical, etc) I was probably not going to ever put them on a future child, so I realized it was crazy to store things that didn’t even get use from one kid in the slight possibility that they would somehow be more practical for a future kiddo- ya know? But I still have tupperware containers full of clothes that Clara wore & loved up in the attic!

      xo
      s

    • Crystal @ 29 Rue House says

      I totally get that. I do have lots of clothes leftover from Ruby (first) that she never wore and if I’m honest with myself I know my potential future girl won’t wear them either. We were definitely smarter with the second (Archer – a boy) and only bought things that we knew we liked.

      I was just thinking about this last night knowing that I didn’t want to buy more bins just to hold stuff we wouldn’t want.

      Thanks Sherry!

  19. Jaime says

    I’ve had yard sales before and definitely sell things way to cheap… but I just want to see them gone.

    One thing that our city does is have ‘curb side pick up’ weekends to try and help reduce the garbage that ends up in the landfill. There’s normally only two a year (at the beginning and end of summer) and they announce it on the radio, news, papers. You just put everything you don’t want at the end of your drive way with a ‘free’ sign. It’s great to drive around the city to see you find. There’s lots of junk but always some treasures too. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

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  20. Julia @ Chris Loves Julia says

    I love that you did a coin toss. Genius. We had a yard sale a couple months ago with a friend (we sold the home items, she sold a lot of clothes–perfect balance) and she accidentally sold her black Gap skinnies for a dollar. She was devastated. Luckily, she ended up selling enough dollar jeans and shirts to buy another pair. Hahaha.

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  21. sara says

    One of the reasons I haven’t had a yard sale is because I don’t have tables to display things on – I’m impressed with all of your tables! I did recently buy a clothes rack to hang things that are intended for a future yard sale. I also have a room piling up (that’s 5 items for my pile up :)) with baby things that I will soon craigslist. Yours was definitely successful – I like the nothing brought back in rule.

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  23. Marsha says

    Oh, how I would have LOVED to happen upon a yard sale of yours! Being Canadian, that’s not likely to happen though! Nice profits, worth the effort :)

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  24. ashlie says

    That’s too funny – I was just wondering the other day what you had done with that rocking chair! You know, because I just sit around thinking about other people’s furniture. I had a major purge yard sale this summer too and it felt so good to get rid of everything! I think every two years is a pretty fair schedule to keep!

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  25. Rachel says

    I love the laid back garage sale idea! We did the same thing when we moved out of our old house. We had so much junk to get rid of–and no time to price everything–so we priced a few larger items and hung up signs that said all unpriced items are 50 cents! We made a few hundred bucks even selling things so cheaply. In the end, it’s better to sell something for 50 cents than nothing at all!

    We’re having another sale this weekend! I love the feeling of purging all the unused stuff.

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  26. Yana says

    Bonjour! So lucky you can organize your own yard sale. I live currently in France near Paris and it is forbidden ! We have to enroll into a “vide grenier” that is a giant sort of yard sale in a specific spot that you pay around 7€ for 1 meter and we have to bring everything before 6:30am. You are right about getting rid of stuff you do not want anymore. Better sell to someone who is happy to buy it instead of bringing it home after a full day ! (Have been reading your blog for years. This is my first comment! :-)

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  27. tjack says

    Congrats on a great yard sale. It just feels good to get rid of all the clutter. Were any of those items secret book projects? I think I remember reading that you were going to sell them.

    In other news, we are planning to see y’all in Cincinnati! We live in Columbus so we are going to try and drive out there with a 5 month old. My husband is humoring me, especially since we are planning on buying our first home this year. We will buy y’alls book when we get there!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      The secret book projects are going to be auctioned off for charity! But we did get rid of some leftover book clutter that we accumulated. So excited to see you in Cincinnati!

      xo
      s

  28. Angela says

    We had a garage sale last weekend with the same goal, just get rid of it!! Our son made sugar cookies and sold them too which was fun. A neighbor was our best customer. She came over at least a dozen times over the course of the two days. At one point on the second day her husband had told her, enough, so when he and the baby fell asleep for a nap she said she snuck out the back door to come over!! I think she now has our basement in her house!!! :-)

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  29. Wendy says

    Before we moved, we told others via word-of-mouth what we had and what they could take for free. We lived in an apartment, and having a sale was too much of a pain. (We did CL some stuff, and that was lovely. Including selling my car in under 24 hours after listing at what we listed it for!)

    We decided, too, that if the hub does his PhD overseas, we’re opening up the house with a donation jar. Take what you want and leave us something in return if you feel it is best for you to leave a financial contribution.

    I’m not sure this will happen, as the PhD decision time is about a year away and it appears to be focused on the options within the USA.

    We might still opt for this to clear stuff out before (likely) moving the next big trek.

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    • Jen says

      As an American who just finished a PhD in Europe, I say tell him to do it overseas! It’s a great way to form life long friends from a different place and so interesting to see how different universities work even if they have the same degrees and accreditation! Sorry I know that’s unrelated to YHL but wanted to add my 2 cents.

  32. Amber says

    For our last yard sale, we just said, “Everything is $1 unless it is priced otherwise.” Saved us a ton of time since we only had to price bigger items.

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  33. Sandy says

    We had a moving sale this summer. We went through the house and seriously thought about each thing, “Pack it and haul it? Or sell it?” A ton of stuff ended up in the sell it pile and we ended up making $3k!!! And most of it was not big ticket items either. There were bigger furniture items that we have gradually been selling on Craigslist as well. Our motivation was just like yours – Get rid of it! We were making some insane deals and stuff was just disappearing right and left. It’s the only way to do a sale! I actually think you make more money that way than trying to price things higher.

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  34. Stacy says

    I just moved into my new house, so I am already starting a pile for the Spring garage sale. By the time I get unpacked and organized, Spring should be here! The last time I had a garage sale, I put all of the little things on tables and put a sign on the table for each item priced at $.50, $1, etc., so then I did not have to mark each individual item. By the end, I mass reduced prices like you, just so I would not have to haul the things to Goodwill.

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  35. Emma says

    Good call on keeping your addy private. I would have done the same. Also, being the strange emotionally involved person that I am, I’d be worrying about you if you’d posted “we’re having a yardsale and here’s our address” in advance. Safety first!

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  37. Jess @ Little House. Big Heart. says

    Kev and I have never tried a yard sale. For one, it costs $50 for a permit here in Dallas county, so unless we expected to make a lot of money, it just wouldn’t be worth it. And we just tend to donate to Goodwill or Salvation Army.

    We love when other people have them, though!

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  38. Brittney says

    There are annual garage sales each May in our neighborhood but I hate the idea of people clawing around INSIDE my garage…. maybe that sounds weird but I just don’t want people scoping out our non-sale items that live there. I love the idea of having it as a Yard Sale instead of inside the garage sale. Maybe next May we will be brave and participate in our driveway.
    {must rid our basement of old college Ikea stuff that someone else could love}

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  39. Reenie says

    I LOVE going to them….. but will prob never have one myself. I helped my Mom one time ~ and that was enough for me. HA!!

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  41. Val says

    Every two years seems to be the sweet spot. We had our last one two years ago and lately I’ve been feeling the need to do it again. And I totally agree, there are two different kinds of yard sales: one where you’re looking to make money and one where you’re looking to just GET IT OUT of the house. But either way, nothing comes back inside.

    But I got so jaded by folks relentlessly, psycho-haggling last time (it’s 50 cents…if you don’t think it’s worth 50 cents, then don’t buy it) that I refused to leave any of it on the curb at the end of the day. I was so over it that I was loading up the donation stuff while talking to myself, “If you want this crap, you’re going to have to go pay the Salvation Army for it, you cheap @!##*&! You’re not coming back over here to take it tonight!!” Probably not that serious, Val…

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    • Kathy V says

      Val, I am SO with you on that! I had a yard sale 2 years ago and my goal was to get rid of everything. I sold baby clothes really cheap, most items .50 or 1.00. However, there were a few special items like fancy sweater sets or designer dresses that I had tagged for maybe 3.00 and people were offering me .50 for them. I would refuse and none of those items sold. I had the same attitude: if they weren’t willing to pay a few dollars then I’d rather give it to a friend who would appreciate it or to a woman’s shelter.

  43. MaryB in Richmond says

    How on earth are you successfully selling anything on Craigslist? The last few times I or any of my neighbors have tried it, we’ve gotten nothing but scam replies (“I would like to send you a check for more than the cost of the items …”) and nary a nibble from a real buyer.

    Thoughts? Are we just pricing things too high — although it sure didn’t seem like that, to us …

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      We like to search other similar things to see what the going rate is and undercut it. Then we take nice photos and write a nice description so it hopefully seems like a worthy listing. Seems to work! We have a few other tricks so we’ll have to write a post on it for ya soon!

      xo
      s

    • Sarah says

      I do the same, Sherry.

      Quickly search for the like item and then undercut my price.
      Oddly enough, I sold a turtle (real one) on craigslist.
      I posted the Turtle as free and then in the body of the listing I went on to say that his tank and equipment would be $$… I got it out of my house within 1/2 hour.

    • Wendy says

      I’m going to double in on this. Perhaps it will help.

      The biggest thing I sold on CL was my car. We had it state inspected on 1 May. The hub and I opted to skip a trail run that afternoon in order to photograph it and list it on CL. (Yes, it actually pained me to make this decision..)

      I had been researching the inventory on CL re: my car’s make and model. I knew what was selling, where, and how things were written.

      I’d say we began photographing the car at 4:30 p.m. and had it listed by 6:45 p.m. The hub is a writer and we tag-teamed on how we thought the ad should be written and its format. (We had is stream-lined and categorized the features. There was a space between each grouping.)

      By 9:00 p.m. we had three people who were interested. 1 was a way low offer which we momentarily considered, but passed. 1 we considered more seriously and the hub was e-mailing at a good clip, but it turned out to be a scam. (Thank heavens the hub has a good IT background for this stuff..)

      The last one was a local man who was looking for a car for his high school daughter. He came out the next evening, test drove it, returned for his daughter and wife, and by 9:00 p.m. on 2 May, it was gone.

      We marked it about $500 or so under Kelly Blue Book. We also threw in the GPS as the speedometer didn’t work. (Note- VA state inspection does not require a working speedometer. Bizarre but true.)

      With that said, some areas of the country are better than others for CL. Where we are now, CL is practically non-existent. KSL and the DI are the systems that people use (from what I know) in Utah.

      I’ll also add that my hub and I made it a game for creating the ad. We went into realistically and with the goal of having fun. It made all of the editing, picture taking, etc. enjoyable. The next night when the car sold, I was okay with giving up that trail run.

    • Liz E. says

      I would love a Craigslist tips post! I actually thought you had one already; I was planning to look for it haha. We have a few things (like a nice kitchen table/chairs) we would like to sell but kinda have trouble getting past the creepy factor of inviting a stranger to our house. Any tips on that? If it were something smaller or drive-able (like a car), we wouldn’t have a problem meeting interested buyers somewhere to see the item(s). But loading up a table and chairs in the back of our truck for a possible no-sale doesn’t sound economical or time-friendly!

    • Allison says

      I always tell Craigslist newbies to delete any email that refers to your item as “the item”. Nobody talks like that. “Do you still have the item?” It’s just spam fishing for your real email address. Also, any message that has terrible typos. “Do U stil hav the item?”.

      And obviously crazy long winded requests. Once I got an email that in a few paragraphs asked me to lick on this video link to view an item they were looking for because they thought my item was the same and wanted me to confirm that it was.

      Low prices help. Lots of people will sell something a few years old for only 90-75% off retail. And they wonder why they have no luck and they blame craigslist.

    • Dina says

      Like Wendy, I sold a car on Facebook within 24 hours too. In my case, I think the key was lots of detailed photos (I made sure every angle, and even under the hood, was included so there was no doubt about hidden dings, scratches or other issues), and a specific explanation of why I was selling it (I didn’t want people to think I was just getting rid of a lemon). I explained that I loved the car but was moving from Philly to Boston to go to school and couldn’t take it with me. The guy who bought it said my ad jumped out at him because he was just finishing school in Boston and moving back to Philly, so he felt like it was fate! So I think it’s important to include details and make sure it doesn’t sound like YOU’RE trying to scam the buyer, too.

  44. julie s says

    everyone i know thinks yard sales are too much work and then are shocked to hear i made over $1000 at my last two sales. the key is to stay away from individual tagging – TOTAL TIME SUCK!! group like things on tables (housewares, womens, kids, etc.) make a few quick signs for each table and the big stuff and your done. if its not tagged people will ask or offer.

    …and price low, people will buy almost anything for a buck – why do you think dollar stores are everywhere. would you rather sell everything for $1 than a few for $5 and still be left hauling to goodwill.

    nice work keeping it simple!

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  45. Whitney says

    I am so jealous of the people who found out about your yardsale!! I love a good yardsale but usually stick north of the River. : ) If I would have only known lol….

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  46. Lori says

    We had a yard sale this summer. Between a group of family members we tend to accumulate enough every two years to warrant the time and energy to go through a yard sale. At our sale this summer our things were priced to sell and we received the best comment ever – “your things are priced way too low.” I knew then we were doing the right thing since we wanted things to find a new home and leave our own!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Yes, someone said that to us and at the time I was like “uh oh, are we suckers?” but then I realized it was awesome because things went so fast and not much was left to donate!

      xo
      s

  47. Cassie Helwig says

    I love having yard sales! We always do it with family members so that we can claim the “multi-family” thing to get people down… last year though, I priced items, my mother in law priced items differently (she had old dusty romance novels for 10 cents but I had high quality young adult books for 25 cents) and her sister in law just said for people to make an offer…. this obviously led to a lot of confusion and I think I will avoid it next year haha.

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  49. Morgan says

    Yeah, that’s the thing about yard sales. Can’t believe that everything is worth gold. Everyone who shops at yard sales knows you’re just ready to kick it to the curb. But it is a fun way to make a little dough in the process. Otherwise, i would just be hawling my stuff out to the dumpster with a huge COME AND GET IT sign. lol

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