last minute yardsale outcome...

[dreamin_disney]

Dh and i decide last night around 7pm to have a yard sale today. I was a lil nervous since it was last minute. Dh didnt put up the signs until 6am this morning. We put start time 8am and were set up around 7:30-7:45am. Well i told dh I hope we atleast make $100.
Turns out we made $310 and dd made $39 !!!!!

We mainly sold dd's clothes ...
tops, shorts = .50
pants and hoodies= $1
shoes .50-$1
adult jeans- $1-$2
adult shirt=.50


dd 12 sold some of her lil toys like old lil bratz dolls , several McDonald happy meal toys
she has mini stuff animals = .25 each
happy meal toys =.25 each
kids cheapy belts=.25 These are belt that come with kids sets or pants/shorts
medium stuff animals, misc lil toys = .50

2 toy strollers , folding chair, soccor ball =$2 each

she had 2 boxes one with .25 items and another with .50 items boxes were marked
$39 worth and the lil kids love getting happy meal toys(wrapped and unwrapped) for .25 each lol!

At the end of the sale day everything i wanted to sale at certain prices sold , so last few people i told them .50 each for dd's clothes and it made 2-3 women buy even more-lol! I was dreading having the yardsale but I'm glad we did because the $310 we made Plus dd made some $$$ lesson taught to her is her junk can turn onto $$$$ if she just parts with it-lol!

Larger items didnt seems to be a big hit so we will try craiglist -Entertainment center, 3 nice wooden bar stools, cabinet. I told dh those wouldnt sell because people want stuff really cheap almost free. but kids clothes are very popular.

btw- at the end after we cleaned up, dh found a huge tub full of dd's clothes and I would have easily made another $30-$50 oh well i told him at the next yard sale-lol! he didnt find that funny


Tip- i read grouping clothes by size so is good so I grouped clothes in sections shorts, tops, pants all in the same size. It worked compared to previous years

I also used tables for the clothes and hung up a few things towards the end.


I also price things .25, .50 $1 even amount if a total comes out to 1.75 etc they will alway get a .25 item to bump up to a $ or if its 1.25 they bump it to 1.50 very interesting

 

[SandrA9810]

You have way better luck than I did last weekend. While it didn't turn into people wanting it to be a free sale like they did earlier this year, I still only topped off at like 30 bucks for two days.

The hardest part, is it's little things that gets overlooked online, and probably wouldn't gain much on ebay. I wish there was some place like the swap shop around here.

 

[calbertson81]

Congrats

I've never had a yard sale that successful. I read when your more organized, the yard sales go better. Maybe I should take that lesson, lol.

 

[Bribrittmom]

We had a garage sale a few weeks ago,Thurs. and Fri. 9-2 and Sat. 9-12.Made $700 and Dd made $69.It was a lot of work but much more profitable than I thought it would be!

 

[dreamin_disney]

Dh and I are quiet people so doing yardsales are kinda hard because you have to interact and deal with lots of people and personalities-lol! No one tried haggling the bigger items. A few people wanted the clothes even cheaper and i just told them sorry I feel my prices are fair for that item. They still ended up buying it. I had some new sweaters with tags from khols that i got as gifts last year and year before i said $3 each because it new and tag still on, a few were annyoed but in the end i got my price and sold them. We got a good crowd and most were good about paying asking price. A few people got a 1-2 freebies if they bought a lot and didnt try lowing the price.

so if any of you have stuff to sale do it now before the x-mas holiday gets closer because then, people wont buy.

oh and our city workers go around and take down signs and posters . I saw them take one of my signs down. I guess they go around the main streets and takem them down. After the sale dh did go and take down the few sign around our house he put up


another tip i read late lastnight was to use bright floresant colors or stick to a certain color so people identify your signs for your yardsale. Use large black letters (dh used large thick permant marker).Dh did all of our signs on large white poster paper-lol! He did great on the large black print though.
Colors would be eye catching.

Good luck to anyone having a yardsale tomorrow or next weekend

 

[herdtoDisney]

Wow, you did really well with the clothes! We had an impromptu tag sale on Labor Day and I made around $100-which I was happy with, but the kids' clothes barely sold at all and they were cheap! I ended up giving away what I could to a few people and took the rest to Goodwill.

The big stuff went-that suprised me, but I had stuff cheap because we wanted some more storage room in the basement and shed. It was a lot of work I like going to tag sales but not so much running one, lol. I used flourescent yellow poster board for the signs-they were pretty visible.