southern gentleman | GARAGE SALES
Pain Free Guide to Garage Sales By Jason Frye | Photography Credits: 127YardSale.com
If you’re looking to clean out storage areas such as garages and sheds, sort your stuff, price it well, then let it go. The irony of a garage sale is that in order to sell things from the garage, you’ll need to clean the garage, organize the garage, and store all of your garage sale items in the garage before you can sell a single thing. At your garage sale. It’s exhausting. Call it what you will, a garage sale, a tag sale, yard sale, or rummage sale, this is a decluttering rite of passage and it’s your turn. From what I’ve seen through open garage doors, a good many of you have never held one. I know “garage sale” triggered some of you and I get it, cleaning the garage, storage unit, shed, attic or basement is among the worst household chores but it must be done whether you’re prepping for a marathon Saturday morning (that begins with five cars outside your house at daybreak, a dozen people 74 DeSoto
wandering around your yard with flashlights and you in your PJs telling them from behind the screen door that the sale doesn’t start for two more hours and “no you may not peek under that tarp while I finish setting up”) that’ll net you a few extra bucks or whether it’s necessary because you can only fit a bicycle in your two-car garage. Fear not, we’ll get you there. After all, a garage sale and all the work to prepare for it isn’t the end of the world. We asked around for the best do’s and dont’s when it comes to garage sale prep and we’re going to make things a little easier for you. Before you start on that garage cleanout, can you get out of it altogether? Will the D3 Solution – Distract, Deflect, Delay – work here? You know D3, you’ve used it. Remember at
