1) Only price expensive items you won’t budge on. Add “firm” to the tag if you mean it. For everything else, as you said, the point is to get rid of your stuff. The price people offer you is probably the price you should be asking. Like you, I skip overpriced sales because people who have delusions of grandeur don’t barter well.

2) I like your simple signs, but be sure the street name and date are visible from a car.

3) Use a staple gun to slam your sign onto a pole no matter how many staples are already there. Cardboard signs help in that respect. I gorge on frozen pizza in the month before my sale so my signs are distinctive circles.

4) If you’ve posted a sign, I assume you are open for business, as do my competitors. If you don’t want me there, consider setting your sale up the night before in your garage and having a helper post signs right when you open. People spotting signs in drive-bys often don’t note the time, only the location.

5) For selling baby clothes, if it has even the slightest stain, throw it in a ’small stains free box.’ You kill sales if people are browsing clothes and realize they have to carefully inspect every item.

Again, great article with lots of good tips. I’ve only written about sales from the buyer’s perspective. Oh, you would hate me.