For years, I’ve discouraged clients who said they wanted to hold a yard sale. I always told them that it was a whole lot of work for not a lot of reward and it would be easier to just donate the stuff they were ready to let go of. If the client insisted they wanted to try a yard sale, I’d extract a promise that they would have a charity pickup scheduled for the day of or the day after the sale.
Tagged with: decluttering, downsizing, garage sale, yard sale
Whenever I have a client who says she wants to do a yard sale, I always groan inwardly. I usually convince the client that a more expeditious route to achieving her goals would be to donate unwanted items or, in a couple of really cluttered cases, get a local auction service to come take away the stuff and sell it for her.
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When I work with chronically disorganized clients they sometimes want to have a garage sale to get rid of some of their excess stuff and minimize the financial impact of buying things they ended up not wanting.
Tagged with: antiques, garage sale, yard sale