by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Products & Prizes

We hosted an epic garage sale this weekend. At least it felt epic to me as I dragged item after item out to our driveway to be picked over, jostled, questioned, bargained, and if we were lucky... sold.
We started our garage sale at 8 a.m. on Friday morning and finally had everything out by noon. Some of it was marked with a price and some of it wasn't. I tried to put like with like, but kept finding hidden dog toys and Christmas decorations interspersed throughout our items all weekend.

Some folks did the slow drive-by, some looked in every single bag we had. At one point I inadvertently sold the shirt off my husband's back. Silly him, he set it down on the clothing rack and went in our house. A lady had my husband's sweaty long sleeved shirt in a pile of clothes in arms and paid me a dollar for it. But our sloppy, imperfect garage still yielded results. We sold about $700 worth of stuff. We donated the rest and took a half a truckbed of items to the dump. We can park our van in the garage again. We don't feel buried in things we aren't using and that's made this weekend more than worth it.

I don't have a list of "To Dos" because I'm sure you don't want to replicate our sloppy sale. Being on this side of things I do have a few recommendations:
Have at least 3 people at the sale (especially if you have small children).
Don't worry that much about pricing everything. Price is just a starting point because everyone w...