We cleared out so much stuff from our house that even one of our neighbors said, "you know you don't have to sell off your lives, right?" And it's funny because even though the driveway was filled with furniture, air conditioners , yard maintenance stuff, books, baby bouncers and toys, both big and small items... Our house still feels like it has a LOT of stuff in it that I simply wish we didn't have to pack! Saturday was so successful that we decided to continue the sale on Sunday morning with more aggressive pricing on larger items and all the small items left over from the day prior became free stuff.
Just to note for those reading and want to know if we have any tips or tricks for a successful yard sale, I would say prepare, prepare, prepare! Doing your homework, advertising, and pricing items correctly is key. For a few weeks prior, we started storing the items to sell in our garage, pre-priced so we didn't have to go back and do double the work. I simply used the fluorescent neon garage sale stickers that you can cheaply find on Amazon and priced things $0.25, $0.50, $1, $2, $5, and furniture was no more then $30. By pricing as we went it made the morning of the sale SO UCH less hectic! I made neon pink signs to place on the high traffic street corners too. They were simply stated "Moving Sale" with the date, time and address. I choose pink because I didn't want yellow to blend in with street signs or orange to blend in with construction signs. We found that the fast way to get the word out to the public that we were having the moving sale was to use local town/community online yard sale pages available through Facebook. This was by far a HUGE help and highly recommend seeing if it's offered in your area. We also utilized online yard sale groups and Craigslist.