Family: Organise your garage sale - a step-by-step checklist

Organise your garage sale - a step-by-step checklist

Written by George Grubetic

Garage Sale Checklist by George Grubetic Garage sales should be fun and hassle-free, with your goal to make some good money and off-load your unwanted items –our garage sale checklist is your hassle-free, step-by-step organiser for achieving this. 2-3 weeks before repparttar

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-Start sorting through your household for unwanted items have repparttar 110325 mindset that almost anything will sell if it is a bargain - Price your items price items about 25-35% of what they cost new (clothes are exceptions - 5-15% here) - Pick a date and time for your sale weekends are repparttar 110326 best; avoid public holidays or special events - Write your ad give repparttar 110327 address and hours of repparttar 110328 sale; mention items that are of particular interest - Place your ad in local newspapers and using free garage sale adversting sites. put up flyers on local community boards; inform neighbours as they might want to have a joint sale 1 week before repparttar 110329 sale

- Make sure items are cleaned and repaired repparttar 110330 better condition it is in, repparttar 110331 higher price you will get - Determine where signs will go in and around your neighbourhood is best; one in front of your house is smart too - Make your signs use arrows, print repparttar 110332 address, start and end times, use big letters 1-2 days before repparttar 110333 sale

Using a Can of Beans to Make Your Child Feel Important

Written by Laura Bankston

It never ceases to amaze me...children.

They are such little miracles, and at times I'm just overwhelmed with repparttar responsibility of them.

Tonight as I watched my daughter, Maegan, I was amazed at how excited she was, how important that she felt - all because of a can of green beans.

That's right, a can of green beans.

Today was an extremely busy day, so when we got home at 4:45; repparttar 110324 kids were hungry and I was tired. So, I decided to warm a frozen lasagne and have that and green beans.

Three-year-old Maegan wanted to help, and tonight was repparttar 110325 perfect night since dinner was going to be so simple.

So first, I put repparttar 110326 lasagne in repparttar 110327 microwave to cook, set repparttar 110328 timer, and let Maegan press repparttar 110329 'start' button. That's great excitement to her, you know. I'm sure you've seen repparttar 110330 same thing with your toddlers.

Then we put repparttar 110331 lasagne in repparttar 110332 oven together to brown. She knows where repparttar 110333 light button is on repparttar 110334 oven, and she loves to be able to check on her food cooking all by herself.

Just before repparttar 110335 lasagne was done, I opened repparttar 110336 cans of green beans. I gave her a container and repparttar 110337 opened cans. She was so excited to pour repparttar 110338 green beans into repparttar 110339 dish (and that's also good motor development work). She concentrated so hard to make sure all repparttar 110340 beans went into repparttar 110341 dish. But, repparttar 110342 green beans were in a pile, so she asked for a spoon to 'spread out 'her' green beans.' I let her do that, and then we put them in repparttar 110343 microwave - with her pressing repparttar 110344 start button of course.

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