1. Take Down Your Signs! - When the sale is over, have the decency to now remove all of the signs you put up everywhere. It not only clutters up your town it drives people bonkers to see a garage sale sign, try and find the house then find out that it was for the day before! Which reminds of point #2...
2. Do Not Try and Write an Address on a Sign and then post said sign on a major boulavard. We are not going to stop traffic in order to read your small, smuged tiny writing in a black marker. Brings me to point #3...
3. Consistent Signage! Please pick one color and style and stick with it so I know its you. There are so many other sales going on it can get confusing keeping track of all the signs when you get to an intersection. Sometimes I will follow the blue sign and at the next corner there will be 4 different colors and styles. Then I go the wrong way to the wrong sale and just lost valuable shopping minutes.
*Tip. Pick a colored sign, say green and write GSale or ESale (we will get it) then use the same green for arrows on each corner directing us to your house. Simple and Effective!
4. Do not use stickers! If you want to call an item vintage and expect to recieve top dollar do not destroy it by putting a sticker on it, especially on packaging, books or any paper item. That sticker will rip the paper right off and make it worthless or worth much less. The same goes for ink. Do not write the price on original packing, never, never, never.
5. Deodorant does not constitute a garage sale. There are a lot of people who sell deodorant, soaps, laundry detergent, etc. due to their extreme couponing or side business. I do not consider these good old fashioned garage sales. Unfortunately I do not know what to call them but hate it when I read a vague CL description, plan my route only to find bins of a mini mart in somebody garage. I understand that it is a deal, call it something else. I feel deceived.
What are some of your pet peeves? I know there are more!
