Candy Ingram was first tilted on the sale of the garage when his parents pulled her with one.
“I was 20 or 21 years old, with my mother, and I put my hand in a box of jewelry and took out a gold ring, so all the one that was going to me,” recalled the Winnipag woman who now goes to the garage sales week and hosts many.
Ever since he hit gold in decades, he learned that the garage sales seems much more than a box of jewelry to make the sales a hit.
Success hinges on plan and pricing – procedures that she thinks that garage sales should urge to reduce some additional cash through the strike or earn some additional cash.
“Make yourself three hemorrhoids: give away, keep it and then, of course, your garbage pile,” said. Any of them that does not fit, the garage can be ideal for sale – with some cavets.
Health Canada says that any person hosting garage sales is responsible for ensuring legally sold products, whether it is new or used, meets security standards.
This means that no baby was selling walkers, which were banned in April 2004, cribs or protective sports equipment made before 1986 such as helmets more than five years old or without CSA international security stickers.
Baby gates, car seats, walking, plants, toys, children’s clothes drawstring and jewelry clothes also come with the needs of health Canada, which sell them or even give them away.
If an item can be sold, the seller should check to see if it is working, all parts or have any disadvantages, Jeremy Gruman said, one of the organizers of the Great Grandvoy garage sales in Vancouver said. Sometimes you can sell the item in the need for a piece of recall or repair, but it should be told to the buyer.
Gruman said that what you want to sell should start long before your sale so that you know what you have to offer, but also that you can start the emotional work of separating yourself from these things. ,
“The sooner you start thinking about the stuff you want to get rid of, the better, the more Grona said.
“I am a total pack rat and I often realize that I don’t need it … and I can place it on the front lawn at the end of the next week and hopefully it is not a clutter in my life and then in my house and then in my life.”
Once you meet in your race, check what laws are around garage sales in your municipality. Some cities have a limit on the number that you can host annually or you need to receive permits.
If you are able to move forward, choose a date that is not a long weekend or holiday, Ingram said. He said that the work is the best work on Saturday and Sunday in the spring, although it is gaining popularity on Friday.
When a date is chosen, you can start advertising. Share details about your sales on Facebook or other online locations and create indications that you can put in your neighborhood.
“The address of the address is large and clear,” Petricia Skekey said, another Vinypeg-sector garage sales hopper.
“Someone is not going to get out of your car so that you can read your sign and write your address, but if they can clearly see it from their car while driving, they are more likely to go.”
Also think about your pricing. For some people, this means which items are going on online marketplace or thrift stores.
Do not expect to sell items for more as a retailer.
“I have seen a lot of garage sales failed,” said Sackkey. “If there was some $ 40 in Walmart, they had $ 30. It’s not a matter of garage salty.”
Once an item leaves a store, Ingram said that it falls in the price up to 30 percent. The garage knocked another 30 to 50 percent discount to reach the sale price, he suggested. If the item is showing symptoms or missing a part or missing, then reduce it even more.
No matter what price you pay to things, people expect people to ridicule and hate people.
“People are dug and most of us want nothing for nothing,” he said.
This attitude may take some people who visited the sale in the morning, hoping to take some dirt cheaply to circle back at the end of the day because you do not want to rejuvenate it.
While the argument of the potential buyer is sound, Ingram said that vendors will then have to decide how desperate they are with their hands for less cash, as expected to get.
If you want to get a fair price, Ingram said, “You have to learn to cut your tongue.”