Sell All Your Stuff and Move Abroad: A guide to selling everything and moving abroad by Al McCullough

Author:Al McCullough [McCullough, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-07-23T07:00:00+00:00

The first time that I can remember going to an Estate Sale was back in 2002. Fears of Y2K were long gone, and we had just bought our first house. Weekends were spent going to yard sales, antique markets and other types of junk sales in order to fill our house with stuff. I’d even go curb picking! Funny side story, I picked a mirror from the curb that had fallen out of its frame. The mirror was in great shape, but the frame was faded and ugly as $#!T. So I sanded it, spray-painted it, re-attached the mirror and hung it in our hall for ten years…and then sold it for $20. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s to pick out of the trash, fix it up and sell back to the original owner!

Anyway, this “Estate Sale” was inside a two story home which appeared to have belonged to a hoarder. There were rooms filled with knick-knacks, books, newspapers, magazines and toys, to name a few things. The sad part is, there was absolutely NOTHING of great value, yet they had traffic. I can’t remember the time of year it was, but it must have been a slow day for yard sales.

Some advice when having your sale; sometimes, people aren’t as smart as you hope. An Estate Sale is typically inside the dwelling. Not everyone knows this, apparently. We placed online ads, newspaper ads, and had signs around the neighborhood promoting our Estate Sale, yet we still had bozo’s drive up, window down, asking where everything was. It’s in the house!

Seeing this, my wife put a few things out on the driveway so people would at least slow down so she could yell “The sale is in the house”! Again, people aren’t as smart as you hope sometimes. Regardless, we still ended up with a lot of traffic and sold a lot of stuff!

There’s a bit of a trick to selling things, regardless of country you are in or are from. As you would with selling stuff online, if you want top dollar, you need to price it accordingly. Let’s say you want $100 for a table. Price it no lower than $120. You may get someone pay the full asking price of $120, but it’s more likely you’ll get someone offer $50 at your Estate Sale.

Be Organized!

Here’s how we organized our sale: We had a sheet of prices printed off, also known as our Price List. Clever and original, right? Each room was listed as a category on said price list, which were handed out when people arrived. We controlled the flow of traffic by only allowing people in through one entrance, which was our garage. Naturally, you may have to alter this if you don’t have a garage entrance. This was both entrance and exit for our sale.

Upon entering, we had people take their shoes off. This does two things; first, it helps control flow. People take their shoes off at many different paces, as we discovered.

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