Multi-Family Yard Sale?
Question:If you are going to have a multi-family yard sale (3 different families) all in one location how do you keep the earnings separate. I feel like making three separate sections will annoy buyers because they will have to pay at each section before moving to the next. Is there another way to do this? I don’t want to just split the earnings in 3rds because we will have a lot more items for sale than the other families. Any suggestions on how to have a successful multi-family yard sale and keep track of profits?
Answers:
You just put each families initials on the price tag. As you ring customers up, you peel the tags and put them on paper. At the end, add each page of paper up. We do a multi fam sale EVERY year and have never had an issue, this work out fine for us. Good luck!
On the price tags, also write A, B, or C to represent what that family has donated and then just keep a tally of whose items sold for what.
We had one last Saturday and just wrote down the amounts of anything that wasn't ours and added it up when we closed up.. one person kept track and that saved confusion at the end of the day.
every multi family yard sale i've been to kept the earnings separate (as far as I know). the all keep their stuff on tables in their own front yards/driveways. as a customer, i walk up to the closest one first, then work my way around. it's not a big hassel to pay more than once. it's like a bonus of having three garage sales near each other. they're not all compacted into one.
You price items
each thing bought mark down on paper
Have 3 columns...with name at top of each.
End of day total columns up.
Color coded tags. One has red, one has yellow and one has blue. And you tag your own items with your price. Keep a sheet with three columns at the cash box. In the top write red, yellow and blue. As something sells write the amount in the color coded column. This way anyone can do the sale and the credit goes where it supposed to. You can use different colors of course but I have used this method for a school function and it works.
We mark each item separately. I place my initials, price and maybe description or size on a piece of masking tape (Holds well). Then when someone comes to pay we write down the price and initials behind it on scratch paper. Then we transfer each amount to a permanent piece of cardboard under the initials of each person in the garage sale. We have been doing it this way for 7 or more years and it works well for us. Make sure when you transfer it to the cardboard, that you scratch out the price on the scratch paper. In other words don't transfer it more than once.
For example on scratch paper.
.50 Le
.75 KS
.25 CV
3.00 rr
$4.50 total
Then on cardboard
Le KS CV rr
.50 .75 .25 3.00
Clear as mud? Then at the end of the day we add up each persons column and compare it to the cash we have and we're usually within a dollar or two.
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