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Fun Friday Garage Sale Comic

Did you know there is a long love affair between celebrities and tag sales?

Nicole Kidman, Terri Hatcher, Pamela Anderson, CSI's Emily Procter, Tori Spelling and most recently former teen star Willie Aames are just a few fervent fans of hosting and visiting neighborhood sales. See what their garage sale interests are all about...

Face it, trying to promote your garage sale in the same space where up to 50 other individuals, organizations or multiple-family groups are doing the same thing can be challenging. Your event’s advertising needs to position your sale to draw the most attention with a "whatever it takes" attitude if you want to stand a chance at drawing attention, making a profit and getting rid of your stuff!

A Great Article we found, Listing Angie's Rules for a Successful Yard Sale:

1) Your lawn is not a store. If I can get it new for pennies more, you have priced it too high. Most items should be 25 cents to 3 dollars. Furniture should be $5 (side tables, wooden rocking chairs, book shelves) to $15 (dressers, desks, upholstered chairs, children's furniture).

2) "Antiques Road Show" is not filming in your driveway. Your mother got that jewelry box in a swap meet in the 1970's, so please refrain from telling anyone it's "Victorian".

Every year, garage sales provide a good indication of past trends and technology.

We're always on the lookout for interesting content for our blog, so when we researched "Garage Sale Trends" and came across Mark Olson's blog regarding some trends he noticed during some sales in Minnesota back in 2007, we just had to share his findings with you.

A few trends stood out more than other years:

Items on the upswing: