Tips on How to Successfully Put on a Neighborhood Yard Sale?

Hi
I've done it both ways and find it less stressful to have it at my own house rather than hauling things to another house. I've also had people drop off there stuff for me to sell and then people wanting to buy have a question and you have to deal with getting in touch with them.
I think the advertising together and having it at your own house is the way to do it. I've been a part of neighborhood sales like that. In your advertising put all 5 addresses in it. That will give the true "garage-salers" a goldmine of sales to go to close together. After it's over you can have a potluck dinner together to socialize.

If you do it all in one place, you can keep track by putting different colored price tags (or different colored dots) on the items. Then whoever is collecting the money can remove the stickers and put each person's stickers on a different piece of paper.

I've seen both ways and they both work okay. If you decide to do them at separate houses, then maybe have mini-maps at each location to the other houses (so you aren't saying it over and over again, maybe interrupting a sale). If you decide to do it at one house, just have an initial of the seller on the price tags, and write down how much is going to who in a notepad.
My main advice is how to post it online for free: http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/

Good luck!

D.,

Our neighbors recently had a combined sale. Everyone who wanted involved helped post signs...etc. Also, people put the items in their own driveway so to keep everything separate. Each house had a person to man the money...depending on your neighbors, it can be accomplished in shifts with a person handling the money at each driveway on either side for a while. Just keep separate money boxes for each driveway..

good luck,
T.