Having a yard sale is fun!!
My husband and I have two per summer. We have a section of the basement that we allocate just for yard sale items that we collect throughout the year. My husband does a lot of cleanouts so we get tons of free stuff. When ever we are bored and have no other projects going on, we pull out a box and start pricing items. This alleviates most of the stress the day before the yard sale. We talk ahead of time on the higher priced items and what is the absolute lowest we will go. Anything that isn't a higher priced item can go for whatever a person offers (the point is to try and get rid of this stuff and make a small profit) If someone makes an offer that won't work for either of us, we simply explain the lowest we will go is ___. If they don't like it, let it go. Someone will buy it or you can keep it, donate to charity whatever. We had an old coal stove in our basement that we did not want, after my poor husband lugged it upstairs we decided it had to go. it was valued at 500+ dollars but we tagged it a 100.00 and agreed 50 would suffice if someone offered. One man was rather rude in his haggling and was determined he could get it for 30. We both calmly stated that the lowest we would go was 50, 60 if we delivered. He got rather upset and left. Within an hour he came back and bought it for 60. Moral of the story- yard sales are fun, don't try to plan one over night and there will be little stress, be stong and reasonable- life is too short