A garage sale is a kind of occasional market or popular gathering in a place open to the public and during which individuals display various used objects in order to sell them to visitors. It is a way to get rid of superfluous, bulky, even useless objects and fill your pockets with a few euros.
It’s a good plan to clear out old stuff from the house and make some money. To make a successful garage sale and hope to earn some money, it is necessary to carry out a careful sorting at home, to collect and clean the objects for sale in order to prepare for the event and while displaying attractive prices. during the demonstration.
A garage sale is an exceptional opportunity to sell personal and used items. New objects, weapons, food products are not authorized for sale during this event. It will therefore be necessary to sort out the objects that can be exhibited and aroused the interest of visitors or potential buyers. It is therefore necessary to sort through the businesses that are at home according to the products that are sold.
A thorough search of cupboards, cupboards, the garage, the cellar and other corners of the house may be necessary to unearth superfluous objects likely to be exposed during a garage sale. This involves recovering objects which are no longer useful and which are otherwise in a more or less good condition, in particular clothing, sporting goods, furniture, games, toys, jewellery, etc
After sorting, objects intended for sale are isolated from other objects. They are collected and carefully cleaned. Indeed, to hope to sell them more easily, they must be presentable or at least a little clean. Jewelry, silver and copper objects must be cleaned as well as glasses; clothes impeccably ironed. Kitchen utensils will be washed and well dried without forgetting to wash and brush the stuffed animals, and if possible, restore electronic games, talking dolls by inserting a battery, mobile phones by charging the battery.
Preparing for a garage sale will consist in making a location, by going to the dedicated sites to find out the date of the next events not far from home. The choice of the garage sale during which one wishes to exhibit, is made several weeks in advance, as is the preparation of the business for sale for which it is necessary to provide several devices. These include, in particular, labels or ribbons to display prices, tables and tablecloths to cover them, carpets or everything necessary to display the objects. It is also necessary to provide coins for change.
In order not to miss the first buyers and to have a good place to exhibit, you have to get to the place of the event very early. Many buyers, having enough means, come very early to do good business before going about their business.
Also, to hope to earn a little money during a carefully prepared garage sale, the prices of the various exhibits must be attractive. The must be, thus, very low. These low prices must be clearly visible from a distance, about 3 meters away, to attract visitors. Commonly searched items, cell phones, books, video games for teenagers, should be displayed in the front row.
To inspire confidence in visitors and arouse in them the desire to buy the items, one must be presentable by wearing decent clothes, while welcoming them warmly. Also, do not hesitate to negotiate prices or reduce the selling price of items.