How to Price Garage Sale Items

Spring is around the corner and the Bargain Hunters are coming out of the woodwork. To prepare for your next big Garage Sale, proper Organization and a few handy tools will help you be able to price your Garage Sale Items with ease.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Avery Mailing labels 5735
• Colored Sharpie Permanent Markers
• scissors
• large index cards or poster board
• ebay or online auction site

1. Gather all of the items you want to sell at your garage sale.

2. Research free online websites such as Ebay and shopgoodwill.com to compare prices with your merchandise with that of others on the market.

3. Take your permanant marker and generate your lables. Create large clear and descriptive prices on your items.

4. Display your items on tables or racks before you host your garage sale.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure your clothing items are clean, wrinkle free and your clothes smell and look fresh.
• Use a poster board or notecard to display a generic price tag for all clothes.
• For specialty clothes items, use a Avery label and place near the manufacturers tag on the neckline; most people will look here first.
• If you are selling household items, group like items together and place the more higher priced items in front.
• For a group of items on a table, take a large index card a fold in half, on both sides write the prices for that lot of merchandise.
• Use a Posterboard for writing out prices on multiple items rather than pricing all of them individually,
• Cut the Avery Labels in half to get more labels out of a package.
• Color coordinate your Sharpie Markers into different groups of items you want to sell; for example clothing could be in blue, outdoor items in green and holiday decorations in red. You could coralate the colors with writing the items and their prices on a large posterboard nearby.

[jimdris]

on 9/27/2008 Good ideas and tips!