While exciting, moving can also be an extremely stressful experience. Between deciding what to keep and what to toss, packing up your entire home, hiring movers, and getting the family emotionally ready to leave, there’s a lot to deal with. So, the last thing you want is to add another ‘to-do’ to the list. However, there are many reasons why you should consider holding a garage sale before the move.

Why You Should Have a Garage Sale Before Moving

Even if you already hired movers to help transport your belongings from one home to another, a garage sale can still be beneficial. First, it allows you to purge your home of any unnecessary or unwanted items. Moving to a new home is a fresh start; why bring old stuff you’ll never use with you?

Of course, you can always recycle or trash the items you don’t want to bring with you. But then you would be missing out on the opportunity to earn a little extra money and give people in your community the chance to score furniture and other used items for a bargain price.

How to Make Your Garage Sale a Success

Once you make the decision to host a garage sale before you move, you need to decide on a date and time. Of course, you want to host the garage sale at least a week before the movers are scheduled to come. If possible, aim to do it on a Saturday or Sunday, as you’re more likely to attract potential customers on a weekend. Similarly, try to aim for mid-day.

In addition to putting up posters around your neighborhood to promote your garage sale, also spread the word on social media. Your city or neighborhood may have a Facebook group, for example, that would be happy to hear this news.

On the day of the garage sale, price items fairly. Remember that people are looking for particularly affordable items at garage sales, and these are items you’re willing to part ways with anyway. Plus, you can always use the money you make to put toward new furniture for the new house.

 

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