Conquering the yard sale - Daily Freeman
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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.
Hop to that Christmas Garage Sale - Now
Need extra Christmas cash? Why not host a last minute garage sale?. The catch? There’s only one more shopping weekend before Christmas. Still, squeezing a last minute pre-Christmas sale in may well be worthwhile: To help pay off that sagging credit card; To take advantage of the last-minute pre-Christmas buying frenzy If you do decide to host a garage sale this weekend, you could well be in a position to take advantage of the rush, because: plenty of people will not have finished their shopping because day is still a good week away from this Saturday; and many people are already on holidays, and so are looking for an excuse to get out and about; and the week’s break between this coming weekend and Christmas will allow you plenty of time to clean up and get your own Christmas act together. Remember not to delay your advertising, though. While garagesalesource.com is open for advertisements right up to the last minute, your local newspaper will have a cut-off date much earlier than this.