Yard sales are a joy to hold. You clear your home of items that may be of better use to others, at the same time make money out of it. Here are some tips on how to ensure your yard sale is a success:
Timing. Weekends are best. Start early too. Why not time it on payday weekend as well?
Advertising. A week before your yard sale, distribute flyers to your neighbors. Post a notice on the village board. Put an ad in the paper. Post a sign outside your home. You may want to put a short list of the things …read more

All week long the kids have been counting down the days until Saturday. Why? Simple, last week they made some money doing a yard sale and wanted to try their hand at it again. Now they made less than $10 last week but they were inspired by this and wanted to do better.
Each day they went through their toys, clothes, etc to decide what was too small or something they no longer needed. This morning we took everything out and laid it nicely (spreading it out) on the driveway.
The first two hours only brought in a few people, but most …read more

Not my party – you all would be a lot of people to fit into my little house.
My blogger friend Peggy is having the world’s weirdest little party over at her new blog Junk Creation though, and frankly, the party could use some real people. So far the only attendees have been some straw dispensers. I said it was weird.
Junk Creation is a b5media blog that Peggy took over about two days ago. It was already a cool blog, but since Peggy is my co-blogger at Tree Hugging Family, I can assure you that knowing Peggy, this blog will rock …read more