How to Have a Successful Garage Sale

There’s just nothing like a well-organized, killer garage sale to turn your castoffs into cold, hard cash.
How to Have a Successful Garage Sale
There's a set strategy to holding a successful garage sale. Pressmaster/Shutterstock
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Whether your goal is to purge your home of stuff you no longer need or to raise some cash—or both—you have options.

You can sell your items on an auction website such as eBay.com, list them in the classifieds in a local newspaper, or list them on Craigslist.org. You can unload unwanted clutter on social platforms such as Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace. But some things never change. There’s just nothing like a well-organized, killer garage sale to turn your castoffs into cold, hard cash.

Mary Hunt
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