Quick survey...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 02:46AM Help me out, pretty please? Now that we've sorted and purged a good bit of the house (again), we're anxious to have a garage sale (so that we can reclaim our front room which is currently packed full with piles of boxes). Please comment with your thoughts to these questions...
- Would this coming weekend (March 27) be too early in the season for a garage sale? (those who aren't local, keep in mind that we have snow currently, though we're hopeful it will melt shortly)
- If so (or if rain/snow made that impractical), would a Sunday-only garage sale be a flop? (due to soccer season and games every Saturday between April 3 and May 22, this is obviously a concern)
- Would it be weird to do a Saturday/Sunday garage sale where it doesn't start until after noon on Saturday? (again, due to soccer games)
Obviously, the primary goal is to get rid of stuff, but it wouldn't hurt if we could do well with making a few bucks to help offset ongoing home projects, kwim? So. We'd like to set out to have as successful a sale as we can...while still being realistic and recognizing that we really don't want to wait until May 8 (which would be the only Saturday where the boys' soccer games won't overlap such that one of us could still stay home and man the garage sale) or June.
All thoughts welcome and appreciated! :)
Reader Comments (7)
They have lots of one day sales around here (either on Friday, Saturday or Sunday). And times also vary greatly. I say go for whatever works best for you guys!
I never ever ever do two-day sales...I've found that if it won't sell on the first day then I'm just holding on to it to give away on the second day. I vote for a Sunday one-day only sale...then you won't be competing with all the Saturday sales, either :-)
What's big where I live is to do a Thursday evening (5-8 pm) and then a Friday sale until about 2 p.m. People love it because they usually hit there right after work and then the rest come on Friday. It doesn't waste your weekend that way. Also, I'd vote for a garage sale after Easter.
Not too early ...and I vote for a Friday-only garage sale. Those seem to go well 'round here ... good luck!
I've seen quite a few Friday garage sales around here. Like Friday, 9 -3 - so I'm thinking Mom is doing it while the kids are at school. And I don't think it's too early - it's Spring!!!! A friend of mine is the garage sale queen, I swear, and she puts signs out that say "Today, Saturday, March 20th ONLY!!" She says that works best.
I agree with the above comments. Around here Friday garage sales are the most successful. The last one I had was a Friday and Saturday and everything that sold was gone on Friday. Saturday was dead. Next time I'll do Friday only.
I'm not garage sale expert, that's for sure, but I surely wouldn't mind one that is later in the day. We seem to always have haircuts or appointments scheduled for Saturday mornings.
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