TGIF lovely friends! Welcome back to my 31 day series of decorating your home on a shoestring budget. Today we're going to talk about an easy way to earn money to give your shoestring budget a little boost!
Here in the Midwest garage sale season is winding down but there is still time! If you live in the South you're good for a garage sale any time. Today I'm going to share my best tips for having a successful garage sale.
Cleaning and de-cluttering your home is a great way to prepare your home for a fresh new look. Why not earn money while you're at it?! I made $1200 this summer in one sale, here's how....
I told you about my love/hate relationship with garage sales and why you really should have one despite the pain of it HERE. I hate having a garage sale but love the money it earns and the junk it gets out of my house.
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Here in the Midwest garage sale season is winding down but there is still time! If you live in the South you're good for a garage sale any time. Today I'm going to share my best tips for having a successful garage sale.
Cleaning and de-cluttering your home is a great way to prepare your home for a fresh new look. Why not earn money while you're at it?! I made $1200 this summer in one sale, here's how....
I told you about my love/hate relationship with garage sales and why you really should have one despite the pain of it HERE. I hate having a garage sale but love the money it earns and the junk it gets out of my house.
My garage sale this year was huge! I think I had one meeellion items!! I unfortunately did not make one meeellion dollars. But I made some tall cash for a garage sale making over twelve hundred dollars in only 15 hours of sale time. Do the math... that's $80 bucks an hour.
I'll take it!
I'll take it!
I didn't have many big ticket items, I sold a few $20 items but my biggest seller was baby/kid clothes. I finally decided to part with the baby clothes this year. It was very bittersweet going through both of my little guys clothes and I even got a little teary-eyed when I opened that bin of itty-bitty newborn stuff. I saved a few special outfits and then, after I got over the feeling sad part it was more like a panicking "Holy cow! How am I gonna get through all these clothes and where the heck am I going to put them in this garage!?" type of feeling.
I unloaded one average size bin (about a 20 gallon bin) of baby clothes and it took up almost a whole 9 foot table!
So I need about fifteen 9 feet tables just for baby clothes....
I have 3.
Plan B: Make do with what you got... I didn't have that many tables and I didn't have that much hanging space but I did have plenty of bins. I decided to put the bins to work. I put like sizes in labeled bins and let people dig through them. I made sure to pin outfits together with safety pins so they wouldn't get separated.
At first I felt bad about this not being a very neat way to do it but I realized even if I had everything nicely folded and displayed on a table it would be trashed in 5 minutes.
I planned on printing neat little labels for the bins but my printer ran out of ink. (I refuse to buy more because I ordered some for a ridiculously cheap price online but I think it's coming from China because I ordered it weeks ago and it still isn't here. I don't have time to go to the store anyway, I'm preparing for a garage sale!) I opted for a Sharpie and printer paper...
So I need about fifteen 9 feet tables just for baby clothes....
I have 3.
Plan B: Make do with what you got... I didn't have that many tables and I didn't have that much hanging space but I did have plenty of bins. I decided to put the bins to work. I put like sizes in labeled bins and let people dig through them. I made sure to pin outfits together with safety pins so they wouldn't get separated.
At first I felt bad about this not being a very neat way to do it but I realized even if I had everything nicely folded and displayed on a table it would be trashed in 5 minutes.
I planned on printing neat little labels for the bins but my printer ran out of ink. (I refuse to buy more because I ordered some for a ridiculously cheap price online but I think it's coming from China because I ordered it weeks ago and it still isn't here. I don't have time to go to the store anyway, I'm preparing for a garage sale!) I opted for a Sharpie and printer paper...
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