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Home Improvement Made Easy with a Contemporary Grandfather Clock and More Posted By : Andrei Myers
As undoubtedly cozy your home is, youre always seeking for ways to improvise. Wouldnt you love the chance to re-decorate your home from scratch? You probably can. Of course, its going to take a lot of effort, not to mention time and money, to undergo such a project. Still, its well worth the effort.
Garage sale restrictions shelved
Yard and garage sellers in the Michigan city of Walker had a win last week when the local council shelved a months-old proposal to regulate home-based sales. Walker’s City Commission voted 6-1 to shelve the ordinance indefinitely after a vote to approve the ordinance failed 2-5. Commissioner Cyndy Stek cast the lone dissenting vote to shelve the regulation, because she favored throwing it out altogether. The proposal had been reviewed twice by the Planning Commission before being sent to the overarching City Commission. Mayor Rob VerHeulen said he did not support the ordinance, which would have restricted garage sales to three days each, no more than three times a year. He favored at least four times per year and wanted an exemption for sales of produce, such as residents selling vegetables or flowers from their gardens. “I have a hard time banning the fruit stand,” VerHeulen said. Commissioner Chuck Deschaine, who also rejected the ordinance, said it could not be enforced without major problems for the building and police departments. While the ordinance is effectively dead, it could come back to the commission for consideration if garage sales become a nuisance.
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Do the hard yards and clean up big time
Yep, yard selling isn’t all beer and skittles. There’s lots of cleaning and maintenance to be done even before you get to yard sale square one! But if you think of your yard sale as a great way to clean up, both physically and financially, it will ease the burden of the jobs that need doing. Of course you’ll need to make sure your yard is clean, tidy and above all safe. It’s probably best to do the cleaning and maintenance yourself - paying someone else to do it will just eat into your profits. Fortunately, you don’t have to clean up all alone - get the kids to pitch in. You might consider offering them a share of the profits as an incentive - not only for helping you keep the yard tidy, but for bringing any money-making ideas to your attention. Remember, children can be very creative, and giving them a stake in your sale will teach them valuable lessons they can apply throughout their lives. Throughout the big day of the yard sale, place the kids on a roving commission to ‘clean as they go’. This will ensure there’s less of a mess to clean at the end of the day. Still, no matter how much cleaning gets done throughout the day, be prepared for the possibility that at the end of the day your yard may still look like a bomb hit. Take half an hour out by all means to relax and regroup, but resist the temptation to leave the tidying till the next day, week or month (!) Take a deep breath and get stuck into the mess. Remember, your yard sale has already cleared your home of all the old stuff you no longer need. Now is the time to press home the advantage and clean up big time! Fear not, yard seller, outdoors areas can handle a lot of ‘broad-brush’ cleaning, and so are never as difficult to tidy as they seem at the outset.
Go the whole nine yards
Instead of going it alone, why not pool advertising resources with your neighbors and host a street-wide yard sale? This will, of course, take a little more organizing, especially the first time around, but if you make your street’s yard sale an annual event, it could become legendary throughout your town. The main advantage of pooling resources is that you’ll be able to take out a larger advertisement in your local newspaper, buy more advertising signs, and even do a concerted letter box drop, thereby concentrating more visitors into your neck of the woods. Things you’ll need to consider are: ensuring everyone who expresses an interest in the idea is kept in the loop - a temporary yard sale taskforce may be necessary here; ways you can minimize the impacts on neighbors who aren‘t interested in participating; appointing a single contact person the local authorities can touch base with if needs be; getting everyone’s financial contribution up front before you spend any money; giving the person who organizes the street sale this year a break the next year; to make the day as much a social day as a business day - that way the reputation of your neighborhood yard sale as a fun day out will spread; and what other pooling opportunities, other than advertising, exist - for instance, the more entrepreneurial of your neighbors may wish to get together to operate a children’s jumping castle, or a food stall. Getting together with your neighbors will not only increase your yard sale’s exposure, but will inject a good deal of community spirit into your suburb!