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It is funny that I found this thread because today is the first time I held a garage sale. Actually, it was a neighborhood sale, we opened the community gate and anyone who lived in the community and wanted to put their stuff up for sale.

Anyways, I printed prices in word and taped them to the stuff. For the most part, no one asked me "how much," and on about 75% of sales I got the asking price. I set everything out on my ping pong table. There were quite a few requests for the table iteself and it was not for sale.

Make sure to have plenty of change. I had $25 and was okay. 1$5 bill, 17 $1 bills, and the rest in quarters. Also, I priced my stuff to the nearest $.50 so I didn't have to worry with smaller change.

I put my left over Halloween candy out with a sign that said "Please take some!" My customers seemed to like that but it didn't help sales. I did get rid of almost all my candy though.

One lady offered me $1 for a $4 curtain rod. I said "how about 2?" and she said no so I said sorry, it hasn't been used and i paid close to $20 for it. She stood looking at it for a few minutes but we didn't make the sale.

Overall, I sold about 50% of my inventory and made $70. I didn't have anything large which most people seemed to want. Some items were probably priced high, but I priced based on what Iwanted to part with it rather than rock bottom prices. I'm going to hold on to whatever is left over and bring it out to the yard sale again next year.