a huge successful yard sale the other day with about a 24 hour notice. And not knowing

I was going to have a yard sale before 24 hours in advance, I had to act very quickly.

It was my first yard sale ever, so I asked all my friends: "What did you do that worked

for you when you had a yard sale, what mistakes did you make?" Then what I did was I duplicated

all of the things that worked, and I avoided all of the things that didn't work. I know,

it sounds really simple, but before you have your yard sale, do your research.

Then duplicate the things that work, avoid the things that don't. Really simple right?

and it's a good idea.

Second of all, want to get a fanny pouch that you can wear on your person. I had pockets

in my pants, and the morning of the yard sale, when people would give me $20 dollars I would

put the big money in the pocket, but I kept the fanny pouch full of one dollar bills and

five dollar bills. Now I went to the bank the day before, and

I got one hundred dollars in cash in tiny bills. Five and one dollar bills so that I

could easily make change as people bought these small items from my yard.

The second thing that I did that was brilliant was, I signed up with square.

Square is this little tiny thing, that goes inside your cell phone and it allows you to

take credit cards. So when someone comes up, you simply swipe their credit card and the

money goes right into your bank account. It's free to set it up, it's just like having

a merchant account, you don't actually have to have a business, just a bank account, and

they charge 2.75% which is the merchant fee or the transaction fee for swiping the credit card.

But if somebody doesn't have the cash and

they want to buy stuff from you, now they can because you're advertising that you take

credit cards as well as cash. So if you have a yard sale, not only get your cash ready,

so that you can give people exact change, but make sure that you take credit cards as well,

because guess what? Not only will you get more sales, but that is a good idea.

That is a good idea.