It is a sad fact that many garage sale signs look like they were made by someone who has never been to a garage sale. The ideal garage sale sign would be easy to read: made of neon paper with a single large arrow and the words “YARD SALE” in bold, easily seen from one hundred yards. Few signs live up to these standards so be prepared to have to search for signs. This is where garage saling with a partner really pays off: having someone besides the driver to look for signs.
The best place to post signs is on light or sign posts ten to twenty yards before the intersection in areas with low speed limits and around fifty yards away in areas with higher speed limits. Most people don’t do this and instead just put the signs at the intersection so be prepared to turn at any intersection. Don't expect the sign to be on the sign or light pole; I've seen signs on the ground, in trees, and stuck to parked cars. If the arrow is obscured, a good rule of thumb is that a sign on the right side of the street indicates a right turn and a sign on the left side of the street indicates a left turn. There are, of course, many exceptions to this as many people don’t place their signs logically.
Once you have seen a seen a sign and turned into a neighborhood, it should be pretty easy to find the sale. Do not turn until you see a sign telling you to do so; if you don’t see a sign after four or five minutes, give up and turn around because it’s probably an old sign from a previous week.
One important thing to keep in mind is that many — really, probably most — sales use a single sign style. This means that if you see two different styles of sign on your way to one sale there are most likely two different sales down the way. So, if one sign tells you to turn from the street you are following, it often pays off to continue down the street which you turned off of once you have found that first sale.
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