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There are many ways to create signs: use your creativity and come up with something unique or funny
The most simple and perhaps most profitable thing that you can do when hosting a garage sale is make sure that you have good signage. Signs must be large and easy to read.
Creating
There are many ways to create signs: use bright colored poster board and a large black marker, print on your computer using a simple word program, recycle a large piece of cardboard and use large black stickers or stencils.
If creating a sign isn’t your idea of fun, consider purchasing them at local dollar or hardware stores. These are already pre-printed, usually in bright colors with black font and an arrow pointing in the correct direction. All that’s necessary is a printed address and times of the sale. Adorn your signs with helium filled balloons, silver fringe that sparkles in the sun and anything else that will call attention to it. If rain is in the forecast, consider putting a clear garbage bag over the sign.
Posting
Be sure and place signs where potential customers will see them. If you live right on a main road with lots of traffic, one placed at your driveway should be enough. If you live deep in a subdivision, consider posting your signs throughout the neighborhood at every turn. Signs at every major intersection near your home will help draw in the customers, but only if they can read the signs! One in front of your sale is a must.
How to post signs can be a major decision. Should you put them in the ground or hang them on the telephone pole? Area regulations may dictate your decision, but this is not the case everywhere. Create a post using a stick or piece of wood, then staple or nail the sign to the post. Another item to consider recycling is a used advertising sign from a company that has done work at your house and left behind, or even a political sign from a previous election. Just glue or tape your sign to both sides and viola a new sign that is easy to stick in the ground! Don’t forget your staple gun and hammer when posting your signs!
Don’t forget that you can even post a sign online. There are great yard sale websites that allow you to advertise your sale, and they can be just as effective, if not more so, than physical street signs.
Removing
Keep track of where you posted signs – either on a map or as a list. Be a good citizen and be sure to remove them when it’s over. Get ready to count the money that your great signs helped to make.
