Indoor Garage Sales

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Indoor Garage Sales
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It is the time of year where just the thought of
sitting outside on a lawn chair overlooking your
old and unused stuff just sends shivers up your
spine. And I mean REAL shivers as it is 12
degrees outdoors! But that old and unused stuff
is NOT going away and you would just love to have
some cash by selling the stuff and taking a nice
long vacation to warmer climates. So, instead of
sitting outside and freezing, have an Indoor
Garage Sale! You will be overwhelmed with bored
garage sale hunters who have not had their
junking habit filled in quite awhile!
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Start gathering everything you want to sell.
Divide it into piles of like items. Kitchen
stuff, sweaters, rocking chairs, blankets are a
few category ideas. Then, pick out one piece that
is a stand-out item and write a quick and
interesting description of it for your ads on
facebook swip swap and craigslist. Warm and
cuddly purple angora sweater, Vintage kitchen
utensils, Baby comfortable rocking chair like
your mother had are all descriptions that are
enough to get someone to come out in the cold and
attend your sale! Avoid just listing items in
your ads. Add a little sparkle and sales
technique.
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Next, figure out what part of your home would be
best to set up the sale. The garage is still
perfect if you have a way to keep yourself warm
and the customers out of the cold, damp and wind.
But if that wont work, try the front part of
your home so that people dont go traipsing
throughout your entire house. If you are moving
out, waiting until the current house is empty and
you have moved all of your things to your next
home, is ideal. Then you can set things up in
each room that pertain to that room and you can
use open closets to hang clothes, curtains and
bedspreads. Either way, you dont want things
that are NOT for sale to be in the FOR sale area.
If you have chosen a part of your home that can
be set up for the Indoor sale, but the area opens
up into the rest of the home, you are going to
need room dividers of some type creating barriers
so that you dont have people wandering all over
the house. Use ropes, room dividers or even huge
appliance boxes across doorways or stairwells. If
needed, add signs that say Private or Do Not
Enter or even Closed. Hopefully, people will
get the message.
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Pricing everything individually can be tedious,
but it saves in the amount of times you have to
hear How much is this? Putting stickers or
pieces of tape on the items will also help at
checkout time. If you try the Dollar table, Two
Dollar table and the Five Dollar table set up,
make sure that you can remember which items were
on which tables. People tend to drop items all
over the place if it isnt a high end designer
shop. So pricing each item helps on many
levels. Any sale whether it is inside or
outside, needs an extra set of eyes and hands.
Unless you have only one table filled with items,
ask a family member or friends to help you out.
They can help keep people in the area of the sale
and not allow them to wander around your house.
They can also let people in the door and instruct
them to wipe their feet. A bonus for them is if
you let them sell some of their own items.
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Dont try to have an indoor sale on the day you
happen to think of it. All sales take a bit of
planning and some advertising. You also need time
to set things up so that people arent just
trampling over items left on the ground or floor.
It will also take a day or two to make room for
the stuff, especially if you are living in the
house. You want to set up tables nicely and have
furniture that you are selling arranged so that
people can sit on it and test it out before they
buy. If you have things tucked away in attics or
in storage units, consider the time it will take
to bring stuff down and over for the sale. If
possible, set everything up the night before. You
dont have to get up super early to drag things
outdoors!
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Advertising your sale can be done completely for
free. List your sale on your Facebook page and on
Facebooks Swip Swap pages. There are other pages
that people have developed that are strictly for
garage sales in your area only. Also list on
Craigslist. In these ads, make sure you add
pictures and list your items in detail with the
unusual or in demand items first on your list.
You can create additional listings for these
standout items since many people will be looking
for specific things. Bicycle,tablesaw, living
room set and all things that can easily attract
shoppers to your sale. Remember to post the
Vintage, Antique or Rare items for those people
who may not go to garage sales but DO go to
Antique stores. You can also take an ad out in
your local shopping guide or newspaper
advertising the time and date of the sale. These
ads are normally pretty cheap and people do scour
them regularly.
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Before you open your doors on the day of the
sale, make sure that you have plenty of change.
And this change includes single dollar bills and
fives and tens. There is normally that one person
who shows up first thing with a one hundred
dollar bill and you simply have to tell him to go
to the corner carry out to break it. Just
remember that an indoor garage sale is so much
more comfortable than one where you sit outside
and freeze. But there will be issues such as
dirty floors. Perhaps a large tarp laid on the
floor will help from mud, snow and dirt. Or
plastic runners between tables can cut down on
any damage that can be done. Stay open for the
length of your advertisement because many people
come late to get those last minute bargains when
you have started to mark down just so that you
dont have to throw the items away. Enjoy the
money you made from the sale and keep the hot
chocolate coming!
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