3 Overlooked Yard Sale Success Secrets

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Last week we learned how not to have a yard sale. How can you avoid a similar fate? By following a few of these tried-and-true secrets.

Kristen O'Gorman, Good Housekeeping Home Style Blog

When it comes to a yard sale, deciding whether or not to sell that KISS memorabilia can be the least of your troubles. What if it rains? What if you live on a dead-end street? What if all your customers are hagglers? There is no known formula to get people to magically come over and pay full price to take away your cast-offs, but you can tilt the odds in favor of your success with some careful planning. Here are a few strategies for success:

Yard Sale Success Secret #1: Hold The Sale Rain Or Shine
Put clear plastic tarps over your tables and set up a patio umbrella to stand over. Yes, plenty of people will come. Good Housekeeping's Kristen O'Gorman says that, during a weekend-long yard sale, 90% of the profits came from the day filled with downpours, rather than the picture-perfect day.

Yard Sale Success Secret #2: Go Multi-Family
Some locations are just better than others for holding a yard sale. If you know that your block has little foot or car traffic, join forces with another family in the neighborhood and have a multi-family yard sale. They win because there's more merchandise on display, you win because you get a better location. Don't know another family? Look to Craigslist's yard sale section or community bulletin boards to see who's having a sale soon.

Yard Sale Success Secret #3: Spread Out Clothes
At a yard sale, customers are attracted to items that are out in the open. A glance at your yard sale should easily communicate what you're selling. While most objects can be laid out on a table, clothes present a problem. On a rack, you can't tell the difference between a vintage dress and a tee shirt. Instead, lay out the clothes on the lawn...on top of a tarp, of course.

For more tried-and-true yard sale tips, visit Good Housekeeping.

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In Random Recast, we find new uses for ordinary things. This week: Party streamers.

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Bathroom Makeunder - Notes from a Renovation

Filed under: Makeovers & Inspiration

This guest bathroom had potential that was hard to see under that New Yorker cover wallpaper, vinyl flooring and boxy enclosures. The "after" proves that less is more when it comes to bathrooms.

Wade Freitag

When you see how soothing this Portland, Oregon guest bathroom turned out, it's hard not to look at the before photo and go "yikes." The large enclosures around the sink and bathtub ate up a significant amount of floor space and created an awkward layout. The homeowners noted that the vinyl floor covering was impossible to clean. And then there's the matter of the New Yorker cover art wallpaper, a busy pattern that made the room feel smaller and, well, chaotic. All of these elements had to go.

The biggest difference, of course, came from paint (Antique Gold by Benjamin Moore). But the new double-hung window (which replaced the aluminum sliding window), smaller mirror and hexagonal floor tiles subtly enhance the space further. And here's something interesting: The tile wainscot was replaced with subway tile, not only for stylistic reasons, but also because existing tile that's 10 years or older can be impossible to match just right.

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How to Build Gravity-Stacked Stone Walls

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Gravity-stacked stone walls give a romantic look to any outdoor space...and require surprisingly little effort to construct.

Morgon Mae Schultz, flickr

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How to Caulk and Seal Cracks in Concrete Driveways

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