"Simple Solution For

Free Garage Sale Signs!"

You don't need to buy garage sale signs, make your own for free! Here are a few proven sign making tricks that will grab the traffic and direct it to your sale. If you are shooting for a successful garage sale, you must have a few garage sale signs.  Here is how you can get them free.

Follow these steps to free garage sale signs:

• The brighter the paper, the better. Consider using sheets of day-glow index stock available at office supply stores. Size 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

• Never mix the colors, it confuses people

• Write with indelible markers-use black or blue

• The words GARAGE SALE should stand out

• Write down the street and address

• Place signs in strategic locations with arrows pointing in the direction that buyers should go.

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Free Standing Signs

You can use paper grocery bags with sand or other material in the bottom to hold them down. Staple the top shut and create a sign on both sides of the bag. Voila, now you have a two-sided sign that doesn't have to be fastened to a tree or telephone pole. (Being so low to the ground could make them difficult to see in some locations.)I wish to note that you have information you can place on the internet for sale! That's right, You can sell what you know in an info product!

Make a Sandwich Board

A sandwich board is a great free garage sale sign that can get attention. Make them out of almost anything! Heavier material like sheet rock, plywood, and paneling may not be as likely to blow over, but on most occasions good old pieces of cardboard work just fine. You can ways place a brick or something heavy on the spacer on the bottom.

Cut two pieces of equal size.

Fasten the tops together with ductape-what else?

Spread the bottom apart and place one or two wooden spacers inside. Tape or tack the cardboard to the spacers.

Complete the two-sided sign by writing on sides.

A garage sale when done right can produce hundreds of extra dollars for the family budget. People all over the country are doing garage sales and other things creating their own success stories. This is one of many wonderful businesses for work at home moms

Special Attention Getting Sign

Hey, it's a dog eat dog world out there! Having a $1,000 garage sale takes know-how, imagination, and chutzpa! You need to stand out from the 10 dozen other sales along the street. Believe it or not, your signs can make the difference.

For example, your well placed signs have traffic going by your sale. To improve the odds of having them stop (besides having a ton of tempting tables-I like alliteration) you can use free garage sale signs in another way. Just like the business world at large, this part of the amazing formula.

Free Garage Sale Signs as Magnets

One way to get lookers into buyers is by placing "attention getters" right at the end of your driveway or lawn.

a piece of cardboard on a stick could say ANTIQUES or COLLECTIBLES-This will pull buyers like flies to honey (We assume that your sale will have some of these items!)

Another could say "CHILDREN WELCOME!" This may sound corny but now you are advertising that you are a nice person to do business with. ( Sure, you need to child proof your sale to some degree.)

List some of your HOT items on a sign:

Golf Clubs, Mountain Bike, antique trunk, mouth blown bottles, new sweaters,Tools, Mother-in-law (People appreciate humor too and people buy from people they think they would like!)  Of course, place some of these same items at the end of the driveway for stop the traffic attention!

More suggestions can be found in the Garage Sale Money Machine book.  One tip or two in this book could put your sale on steroids! Garage Sale Success