{"id":3031,"date":"2015-04-07T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2015-04-07T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T22:22:22","slug":"yard-sale-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"Yard Sale Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have hinted \u00a0for several weeks that we were preparing for a yard sale. I am excited and eager to announce that the physical yard sale actually took place this past Saturday.\u00a0 I actually began planning for this the first weekend of March. I am not at all \u00a0new to yard sales. In fact, I remember travelling with my mother to a flea market as a child in order to bring in some extra money. Since becoming an adult, I usually participate in a yard sale either once a year or once every other year. For the past several years, I have been going to a small bank and setting up with our cheer gym. \u00a0The standard that makes a yard sale successful has not changed over the year either. If I am able to bring home a profit of $100 then that is a very successful yard sale.<\/p>\n

One new thing that I have never tried before was \u201conline\u201d yard sale. Basically this is a free facebook group., where you post a picture and description of the item, along with price and general area for meeting. \u00a0\u00a0I decided to only place 1-2 items for sale at a time.\u00a0 \u00a0I also only arranged pick up and meeting in private messages and did not consider an item sold until the meeting was arranged. \u00a0I was nervous at first due to the publicity of recent bad horrible stories from meeting arranged on craigslist and also some of the stories that I had heard about people just not showing up. I am excited to say that my experiences with this have been overall positive. I had one person come to \u00a0what I thought was purchase an item but they looked at the item and decided they did not want it. I replaced this item for sale and in less than 2 hours had another person arrive and purchase the item.\u00a0 I also had one experience where I arranged to meet someone and they did not show up.\u00a0 Otherwise everyone showed up with cash in hand and\u00a0 it was the easiest way to sell items that I would consider big and I did not attempt to sell anything under $10 as I didn\u2019t consider it worth the gas.\u00a0 Matt ended up doing some of the meeting during the day but even he will agree how easy and quick most were. I made around $400 just on the online part.<\/p>\n

After the huge success via online selling, I decide to go all out with the advertising and not only pay for advertising in our local paper which cost $38 for 3 days, but also placed an ad on craigslist and on the site I use on Facebook. We also placed several signs on Friday night as well. I am so excited to announce that on Saturday we had a profit of $350 after covering the cost of advertising and two meals for us!<\/p>\n

OVERALL YARD SALE PROFIT $750\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..my most successful\/profitable Yard Sale EVER!!!<\/p>\n

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So how are we spending this money.\u00a0 1) Purchased a new stroller to use at Disney.\u00a0 2)Purchased several gift items for the kids including Autograph books and a dress for Kendall to wear.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3) Purchased matching shirts from the Disney store to wear\u00a0 4) Applied $400 toward our trip cost!<\/p>\n

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