Everything must go.... yard sale!!

I had a yard sale with my sister two years ago...two of her friends also contributed things...so it was a big sale and we all did okay. The best part was just getting rid of so much stuff. What was left we donated...

Honestly, I'm not good in that field. I guess business is not at all my passion. Yes, I've tried that before and we're selling foods but it wasn't that effective since I'm just eating most of them. I was tempted to eat that's why, it wasn't that effective. LOL

We have done garage sales, but not a yard sale. Garage sales are a lot of work and we did not make that much money. Killed the enthusiasm for it, I think.

I have had them about 6 times since I have been in this house which we have been in for the last 15 years. I usually do pretty well, making around $500. I attempted to have one last year but it poured down rain the whole weekend it was crazy. So I had it again the next weekend and once again got mostly rained out. I would have done it again but my husband wanted all the stuff out of there so I had to just donate everything that was left to charity. I had one decent afternoon out of both weekends. I still managed to make just shy of $300 but I am sure I could have made a lot more if it had not been for the rain or if my husband had let me do it the following weekend.

We just had one this past week on Friday and Saturday. We did great on Friday but Saturday we did about 1/10 of the sales that we had done the day before. We made a little over $300 so it was successful. The last sale last year we made about $225. We have had some bad luck with weather though. We have had rain for our last five garage sales.

I did once and it was a two day sale in my yard as well. I made $700 and was so happy as I also got rid of a lot of stuff. I planned on a day that I knew others too would have them in their yards this saved me from having to do all the signage and or appealing to people. Many walked up and down all of our yards and I was very lucky that one time. Good luck and I hope you not only get rid of some clutter but make some money too.

i love going to yard sales and especially church yard sales. i think that having more people participating in a yard sale will draw more people. my mom and i generally have one every spring and make a couple of hundred each.

I've never been very successful with yard sales, so I finally gave up on them. The last one I tried was as part of a neighborhood-wide sale, and I barely sold anything. Maybe, one day, if I'm ever in (or have access to) a spot that has really good traffic and a lot of yard sale enthusiasts in the area, I might give it another go. However, for now, I'll stick with donating the things that I no longer want/have need of.

We had a yard sale just before we moved. We had too many things and we decided to sell the things that we could and the donate the rest of the things to charity. It was our first yard sale and we didn't really know what to expect, but quite a few people showed up and we made about $60 in a couple of hours. We had divided our things in different catagories like 50 cents, $1, $4 and $10 and we sold small things as well as big things. The things that we didn't managed to sell (quite a lot of things) we donated to charity.

I have never had much luck with yard sales. I find that people come early when you are not ready or just setting up. They hassle you and then everyone is frustrated. I have sold things on Ebay and Craigslist and then donated the rest to Goodwill. Hope your yard sale goes well for you.

I never start a yard sale myself before, but I heard my uncle and my cousin has done a sale yard at home a couple of times. They did sell some of the old stuff, although not much money earned, but they still be able to sell some of them. Anyway, good luck with you.