You need to be ready to spend a few hours the day before your sale getting ready.
Putting up your signs the day before your sale serves two purposes. For one, it lets people know that there will be a sale so they know to go in the morning. It's just a way to try to boost your traffic. Putting up signs the day before also saves you time in the morning. Putting signs up the morning of your sale hurts you in two ways. If you put up your signs before you set up your sale in the morning, then you have people coming to your sale before you are ready. In addition, you have to set up late so you miss out on potential early customers. If you set up before you put up your signs in the morning, then you're set up with no one even knowing your sale exists. In this way you also miss out on potential early customers.
The day before your sale is also the day to get all your stuff ready (this may seem obvious but at many sales the sellers are still going through their garage at 10:00 AM to find everything they want to sell). I just pile everything in the garage. I go through my two lists and make sure I have everything. I also establish my minimum selling price for everything and go over it with anyone who may be selling with me. Remember, check to see if any of your items are worth anything on Craiglist or eBay.
Stacking everything in the garage allows me to simply open the garage door in the morning and quickly move everything onto the driveway. This takes ten minutes at most, compared to the thirty to forty minutes required if I were to stack things in the backyard or house the day before the sale.
If you have annoying neighbors who tend to park in front of your house, you may consider parking your car(s) in front of your house for the night. You can move them in the morning to let potential buyers have easy parking.
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