1. Schedule a yard sale on Saturday, Friday, second best day or Sunday (if acceptable in your area), avoid holiday weekends if possible. I have seen a few “Commuter Sales” that take place on a busy street on a weeknight.

2. Go through the house and decide what goes. A good rule of thumb: If you haven’t used it in a year, you can live without it.

3. Treat the sale like a business. Organize the merchandise by putting like items together so people can find what they’re looking for. Put clothing on a rack or string a clothesline to hang it on.

4. Run ads in local papers, on the Internet and put up fliers (you may need to check with your city to see what is allowed). Be specific about what type of merchandise you have. Make sure you list you big or hot ticket items. You’ll get the people who really want the stuff.

5. Spend time on your signs. Much garage sale traffic just follows signs, so make sure you write in large, legible block print on large, Place on busy corners near your home if sign codes allow. Make sure your directions simple yet specific

6. Consider having a joint sale with your friends or neighbors if you don’t think you have enough to fill a yard. More is better. Keep track of what belongs to who by using different colored price tags on each family’s items. We have found that having some brightly colored items seems to draw people in. Go grab a couple of helium balloons, they add color and can be used to draw people in.

7. Be prepared to haggle. If you’re firm on a particular item, put that on the tag. But remember, people that shop yard sales are looking for bargains. What you may think something is worth, may not be the same as what the shoppers feel it is worth. If stuff isn’t moving, start dropping prices during the day.

8. Don’t take checks.

9. Post a sign near the cash box that says “All Sales Final.”

10.On a hot day, sell cold drinks for $1 a can which will boost your take. A our family’s recent yard sale the kids sold lemonade and made quite a bit of money. If kids are helping make sure you keep an eye on them so people don’t take advantage of their generosity.

11. Donate anything that’s left. Don’t bring it back into the house. Take a tax deduction for the fair market value of each item.

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We’ve been frightened by everyone around us into thinking we must save thousands of dollars immediately. For most this is a possibility. The media does us no favors when it makes the situation sound so hopeless that we might as well give up.

For me some financial planning options seem that they are more focused on the wealthy and not the real people. The real people are the people that really need the help.

After hearing about the gloom and doom, many of us think that if we can only save, say, $10 a month, then it isn’t worth it. Not true! Once you sock away that $10 and realize that you’re still okay, you’ll realize you can maybe put away a little more.

Maybe you increase it to only $20 a month, but that is $240 a year, plus the interest you’ll receive (it may not be a lot but it all adds up).

Even if you stick with $10 a month, that’s $120 a year, and if you think that isn’t much money, you can probably afford to put away more.

The best part of this technique is that you get into the habit of saving. Once you do that, savings can grow and grow as your income increases, your expenditures decrease.

Here are a few tips for saving more by starting small:

Pay yourself first. You’ve heard it before, but that’s because it works. When you pay your bills, write yourself a check. Depositing as little as $5 from each paycheck into a savings or money market account should get you to that initial goal of $10 a month. If that doesn’t hurt, increase it to $10 per paycheck. If, after a couple of months, you find $10 is painless, increase it a little more. Keep doing this and you might be surprised at how much you can afford to sock away!

If your employer offers direct deposit, even better. Open a savings, CD or money market account and have at least $5 per paycheck deposited into that account. Again, keep increasing this as you get comfortable with saving the money. Our credit union offers a plan where they automatically take a set amount out of our checking account each more and put it into a separate account earning CD rate interest.

Do you spend $2 a day on coffee, soda, a bagel, or some other inexpensive treat? Do that five days a week for 50 weeks, and you’ve spent $500! That is your latte factor.

When you save money with good deals or coupons (like we all do with the help of Pinching Your Pennies, consider putting the difference into your savings account.

Most importantly, get yourself into the habit of saving, and don’t underestimate the effect of saving just a little. All you need to do to begin is to just take that first, single step.

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Our friends at Shelf Reliance are helping us give away a Harvest 51″ (Retail value $379.99) to one LUCKY PYP member.

The Harvest 51″ is the perfect FRS for smaller families or those with a limited amount of storage space. This FRS system holds up to 381 cans that are automatically rotated on a first in first out basis. This means you’ll never have to deal with expiration dates again! All can tracks have an adjustable width so you can store goods the way you want, and, like all Shelf Reliance Food Rotation Systems, the Harvest 51″ sits flat against virtually any wall surface.

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