A yard sale is a great way to purge space taking items that you no longer need, but someone else may need, and at the same time earn some cash.
For the yard sale to be successful, it needs to be organized well.
Before you conduct a garage sale, you should know why and how it is going to be done.
Here are some question to ask yourself:

• Why a garage sale and not eBay or Craigslist?
• Are you downsizing a home, moving, or just wanting to clear stuff or earn some money?

The answers to these questions might help in your planning.
In general, here are some things you can think about:

1. One of the first steps in organizing items for a yard sale is to decide when you are going to have it.
   Having a date in mind will give your yard sale a sense of reality and help you to make decisions about what you will sell and what you will keep.
   Having a yard sale date on the calendar will also give you the motivation to actually have the yard sale.
   Nothing happens without a goal and a plan.
   I often work with clients who want to have a yard sale but until I work with them, they never do.
   
2. Next you need to go through your home or office and select items that you will sell.
   Be decisive and consider if you use, need, or love the item.
   If not, it is a good candidate for the sale.
   Is the item easily replaced? Make sure that the items are not broken and that they are in good condition.
   
3. Start sorting.
   Organize your yard sale in the same way you look for things in a department store and sort your items by category, i.
   e.
   kitchen items, appliances, linens, household items such as lamps, throw pillows, clothes, luggage, sporting goods, auto, etc.
   
4. Price your items.
   To get an idea what things go for shop other yard sales or check eBay or Craigslist.
   
5. Advertise your sale in the newspaper, on the internet, use flyers and get the word out.
   Make sure you know how much lead time you need to place an ad.
   
6. The day of the sale, make sure you start early! Yard sale shoppers are early birds and will sometimes line up a good half hour or more before your advertised sale time.
   You may want to decide if you are going to allow early shoppers or not?
7. Find out if your neighborhood, city, or county have rules or regulations about yard sales.
   
8. NOTE: Most yard sales that I have organized and worked are pretty much over by late morning or by noon.
   Things are for the most part "picked over" by then.
   You can wait for more buyers...
   or start giving things away so that you do not have to haul stuff off to Goodwill yourself.
   

Good luck with your sale.