As you know, I have been in FULL on yard sale mode this week prepping for our neighborhood yard sale. I can not tell you how many different times I have said, “I will never have another yard sale!” and then…BOOM…I find myself in yard sale h*** all over again.

There is something about the organizational part of a yard sale that makes me keep going back.

So, if you are a “type A” geek like me and you don’t do anything unless it’s an organized event, here are my five tips to help you organize your yard sale.

1. Make Price Tags

I know it seems like a pain in the butt to individually price your items, but it is so helpful for your shoppers. Think about it…do you like to buy anything at a store without seeing the price first? I know I don’t.

I used traditional address labels and printed up tons of different price tags {from $0.10 to $10.00}. It made my life SOOO much easier as I was pricing my items.

All you have to do is peel and stick!

You can also just use a blank piece of paper and a sharpie if you are wanting to group price certain items. For example, all of my towels were 50 cents so I hung a sign below it instead of pricing each one individually.

You don’t have to individually price ALL of your stuff especially if a lot of it will be the same price.

For instance, most of my kids clothes were 50 cents, but there were a few specific {nicer} items that I wanted to get more for. I used my price labels to label the ones I wanted more for and used this sign {below} for all other hanging items.

2. Hang Everything

Ok, maybe not EVERYTHING, but everything you can. I have tested this theory time and time again and people will buy something on a hanger 10x faster than if they have to dig through a pile on a table.

I bought the cheap 18 pack of hangers at Wal-Mart and it only cost me $12. I was able to use some hangers that I already had plus the ones I bought and I hung EVERYTHING except my 0-3 months clothes.

3. Use Size Dividers

This is probably my favorite tip yet and I stole it from a friend. Find an old pack of cd’s that you have laying around. For me, I had a whole bunch of blank cd’s that I NEVER use.

I added a piece of duct tape across it {which you don’t have to do} and I wrote the size category on it. Then I slid them over my hanger and used them to separate all of my kids clothes by sizes.

Ahhhhh, organization at it’s finest people. Not to menton, super easy for your shoppers to find what they are looking for.

4. Separate Separate Separate!

You probably can’t tell from the looks of this table, but I separated all of my toys out by price.

I used a long piece of painters tape and a sign that had the price on it {see below}.

This kept me from having to individually price toys. Life saver!

 5. Make Sure you Tell People What’s NOT For Sale

People will not only be at your house an hour before your sale starts, but they will try to buy everything in your garage including the lawn mower, pool salt bags, and screwdrivers.

You MUST make it very clear what you are selling and what you are NOT selling. We used signs like these:

You can also use rope to rope off certain areas.

I am curious, what organizational tips do you have for yard sales? I’d love for you to share your ideas in the comment section below!

Now…stop what you are doing and COME to my yard sale!

Friday and Saturday from 7:00 am – noon

Email me at Mandyjrose{at}gmail{dot}com for details.

 

What are some of your tips in organizing a yard sale?