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BE ORGANIZED
You
have heard it before: The
early bird gets the worm! Not
only should you be one of the first at a sale, you need to be ready for
all the sales that day.
The
first thing you need to do is invest in a newspaper or better yet, your
daily newspaper on-line.
There are always a few that might not be on line but they are in
the paper, so keep both in mind when looking for sales. On-line the sales are easy.
Here
is what you do (or should I say what my hubby does, because he is much
better at it than me): We
cut and paste all the sales into WORD to get the format right. From there
if you know how to do a spread sheet, you can go nuts. You can cut and
paste the entire ad on the spread sheet, and go by town, time, city, or
sort by theme, for example, Church
sales are the best sales, so they can be at the top of your list with a
few other sales that are near by. Maybe
you are into getting children’s clothing or toys. Then you are in yard
sale heaven. Most sales have them. Some ads even let you know the size of
clothing they are selling. We
try hard to skip sales with kido’s stuff. We just don’t need any little
tykes items so we make a column that is titled (kids STUFF-skip this
one). Do
your cut and paste and spreadsheets the night before, and if sorted by
town you can go right from one to the other. Secondly,
you should get a GPS in the car
which can really save time. Our
good friends go out separately to their favorite sales. One day they were pulled off to
the side of the road. We pulled up beside them to see if they were ok.
YEP, they just had to refold the newspaper and find a sale close so they
did not waste gas. We flipped up our spread sheet with town, sale, city, time the sale
starts, what the sale offers, and showed it to them. They just could not
believe how organized we were. Of
course you don’t have to do a spread sheet, you can make up your own
method. One
of our neighboring town’s newspaper
has great ads for yard sales. You click on the small box to the
right of the sale, and when you print, it will only print the sales that
you clicked on. Our town has not done this yet, so we do our version and
that is cut and paste and organize. That
is the secret. There are so
many of us out there looking for great bargains and wishing we could find
the perfect thing to wear, or to decorate with, or to sell and make big
bucks, that you have to be organized and know where to go and where to go”
next! Its
fun to go alone to a sale, but we find it more fun to be with each other.
Since we sell yard sale items, we do not dilly-dally around, We make it
fun but we also make it quick to move onto the next great find. Two minds are better than one and
two sets of eyes can sometimes pickup on something missed by the
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