Preparing for National Garage Sale Day

Preparing for National Garage Sale Day.  Who knew? There is a national holiday devoted to the garage sale. How American is that?! We are such a consumer society that we denote a day of the year when we celebrate getting rid of stuff, so we can go by more. Or maybe you’ll be out shopping the garage sales. You know “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

If you want to participate in this all-American holiday, it’s less than two weeks away. It’s time to get to work and rummage through your house for all those no-longer-wanted items. Remember, if you haven’t used it in the last year you probably never will again.

Here is an old article I found from The Columbus Dispatch on how to prepare for a garage sale. In the article, they quote some tips from Consumer Reports.

Consumer Reports offers these tips:

Schedule your garage sale to coincide with a local event that’s likely to generate extra traffic near your home.

Place the items with the broadest appeal close to the street to grab attention and lure potential buyers up the driveway.

Sort clothing into categories — by gender, season, and age group, for example — and display those items, if possible, on hangers.

Keep a mirror handy if you’re selling accessories.

Place fresh batteries in items that require them and keep a power source handy so shoppers can try out electronics and other plug-in appliances.

Good luck preparing for National Garage Sale Day!

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Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

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