I have so many boys clothes~they're running out my ears!! I decided to have a yardsale, I have clothes size 0 - 6/7 & some 12/14's...all boys!!!!! I hate all of the work that has to go in a yardsale, but what else should I do with the clothes...I'd like to make a little money on them. 
My dh suggested ebay, but I'm kinda tired of ebay...you have to pay a listing fee & you have to pay a small percentage of what it sells for & then to receive the payment via paypal, you have to pay a fee just to accept a credit card payment. Ugh!!!
Does anyone have any suggestions on making a yardsale easier to do???
TIA!!
Around here, kids clothes sell for very little money at garage sales - usually less than $1.00 per piece, sometimes much less!
I have found that it's easier to donate to GoodWill and deduct the donation from my taxes - I end up "making" about the same amount when the tax deduction is figured in, but it's a lot less work! Of course, I have to wait for the $$, unlike a garage sale where it's cash in hand, but I've gotten to the point where I don't mind waiting.
If you are going to do the garage sale, have the clothes sorted by size, and hang as much as possible to avoid the messy piles that most people won't take the time to really look through.
I would also recommend going to a few sales that other people are having to see if clothes will really sell, and what price range you'll be able to get for yours.
Good Luck!
Laura.
I had a yardsale here 2 yrs ago and made almost $300...I thought that was pretty good... but I just hated the work going into it.
Some clothes do sell well around here like namebrands & baby things!!! (I'm in kentucky)
I'd never thought of the goodwill. I didn't know you could deduct from your taxes, there's a goodwill about 45 min. away from me. Thanks for that tip!!
how about a mult-family or even block sale?
split the load of work
of course kids help set up -- they can fold, put on color coded dots -- a trick my mom used. -- everything had a color and big chart on wall w/ colors linked to price or if multi-family to who gets the $
tip on pricing...use ink jet to print scads of price tags. can easily color code this way.
overhead grarage door rails are a built in hanging rod for clothes as is a chain link fence.
plywood sheets or old doors on sawhorses make hugh tables
kids can make extra cash selling cookies, cake, lemonade, iced tea (full service here!)
my dad laughed at my mom when she did her first one, wouldn't help at all (so guess how had to)...of course after she pulled in almost $1,000 (oh the tons of stuff she sold)...he stopped laughing and asked "so, when's the next one?
oh yes, he did....very willingly. he hung steel metal pipe (copper too soft) from wires attached to rafters in garage to create lots of clothes hanging space and helped w/ tables, etc. all mom had to do was hang and lay the stuff out. He even set up a separate section for stuff he wanted to be rid of and made a few $$ himself.
i've seen lots of people just hang the clothes on the fence
got two big trees? string rope between them for clothes line and use a taut-line knot to tie rope --allows to adust rope and stronger the more weight on the line. here are two links to knot instructions.
http://www.ropeworks.biz/reader/tautline.pdf
http://www.iwillknot.com/taut_line/
Naive new mommy that I was decided to have a yard sale 6 weeks after my son was born. What a dummy. I didn't think it would be so much work! The yardsale that is, though I didn't realize how much work my son would be either!!
Yardsales are a ton of work and I totally understand where you are coming from about getting $ back for the clothes, but if you decide that it's just not worth the hassle, you'll might feel even more rewarded by donating them to a shelter for woman and children shelter or Salvation Army or even a local church that accepts those kinds of things.
i have them i go to them i love them!!!
if you are looking to get rid of your boy clothes that are sz 12 and up, you can send them to me. decide what you would want for them and let me know the shipping on them my son goes through his clothes so fast. he is very hard on his jeans.
Yardsales in KY go over big-sometimes clothes are the first to go, sometimes the last-I really think it depends on the season-like for school clothes, etc. But ya never know til ya try! I donate alot too but I have a friend that puts out some things 2 times before the gives them away if they don't sell. You could give it a try! Good luck and have fun!
Do you have any resale shops in the area? We have a few here that will buy things then sell them. They do the work, and you get some money out of it. Also if it isn't just about the money, Good Will or a church could be a way to go. Our Catholic Church here accepts clothing, and they give it out to people that are in need. Such as if a house burns and they lose everything.
When we did our garage sale we sold all kids clothes for a low price. Mostly 50 cents a piece, sometimes less. If we had something that was nice we had it seperate than the rest of the clothes, hung up and had a price actually put on it. For the rest we had them laid out on tables grouped in sizes with signs for how much they were.
My son & daughter in law had one last year. They have two little boys and had lots and lots of boys things for sale. Unfortunately she didn't advertise or put her signs where people would see them. At the end of the day she had sold 1 item. She was almost in tears and was going to throw everything to the curb. Well, I took them and had a yard sale the next week and made them over $600.00 and myself almost $800.00. If you have a yard sale make sure you advertise in advance. Also make up some cupcakes or small cakes to sell during the sale. And let people know you do cakes. 
Yep, drum up business.
re advertising your sale...
run newspaper ad twice: once the weekend before, once the day before. many newspapers have special deals on yard sale ads
Signs: avoid telephone poles and the like...who walks or drives slow enough to read them???
instead do the kind of sign you see that gets stuck on lawns at election time.
Size: 11x17 minimum....easy way to make....get the foam board used for science fair projects...comes in many colors. stick to white or bright yellow.
put message on BOTH sides.
cut wire coat hangers to make legs. will easily instert into foam and into lawn. Put out at every major cornor they will have to turn at to get to your house and at main road. (be sure arrows are point correct direction.
if your children are old enough, or if doing multi-family and there are tweens and teens available to help...go for the "cute" factor and dress up some of the kids in old Halloween costumes, give 'em a sign and have them stand at major intersections "calling" in the customers (can even do the old style sandwich boards)
(one more side note on making more $$...works best if have multi-family ---
in addition to cakes/cookies (w/ biz cards) -- the teens can make $$ by doing a car wash too.)
Concerning advertising, I don't know if these papers are available or you have something similar in your area but here we advertise in the Pennysaver and Free Trader. They place free ads every week. It is a must here to advertise in them. Yard sales can be alot of work but also alot of fun.
I use to live in this town where they have a community wide yard sale every year. It's always on a Sat. & Sun. You wouldn't believe the people in town that weekend. It's packed. Was it ever fun to sell and shop. It cost $2.00 to participate to go for the cost of the flyers (map) of everyone participating.
I've put a good portion of my kids clothes in a consignment shop. I get 40% of what they charge for it. It's nice to not have to deal with the yard sale. The downside is the clothes have to be in really, really good condition. I was surprised at some of the stuff they wouldn't take. SO, we're gonna have a yard sale anyway - my next door neighbor's going to do it with me.
we've had approx 4 garage sales (yardsales) over Australian summer this year making Aud$600, we dont advertise at all in the paper - cause if you advertise you will have people (usually dealers) knocking on your door at 5 am with a torch in hand wanting to look at your stuff and also in the past we have had burglars will break in. (very strange people!)
Lately people in Australia have been advertising their garage sale on ebay, they advertive that a person who wins this bid can come a day earlier and look at the stuff. its an easy way of making money.
We put out approx 7 signs on main roads leading to our house and we usually start at 8 am and within -1-2 minutes we would have people stopping - no point paying out money for adversting as the sign work.
Well...I'm having my yard sale this saturday, the 20th! Some of our friends are coming over to help us.
It's so much better to do a yardsale with someone than by yourself. I listed practically EVERYTHING in the add....I'm putting up signs.........I like doug's idea of how to do them.
Wish me luck???? LOL! I'll let everyone know how it goes.
Thanks for all of the replies!!
If your things don't sell, consider donating them to a charity after making yourself a receipt using a program called "It's Deductible" which lists the fair market value of your items based on condition, etc. You then take the receipt with you when you drop off you items and have the receipt signed by the person in charge there. Then you use those totals to claim your donations when you do your taxes next year!!! Woohoo, more money than your yard sale will bring!
When my kids were little and I had a garage sale I would put all the clothes in a trailer and put a whole bunch of those plastic bags from the grocery store with them. Then my sign would read $1.00 a bag. You would be surprised how much I made off of that. Besides I could get rid of most of the clothes at the same time. The rest I would donate to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. People would give $5 and $10 at a crack!
Hope this helps
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