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Start cleaning out your garages!
Saturday May 31st, 2008
8am to 2pm
2008 marks our 7th annual garage sale. As always the RNA will pay for advertising in the local papers (The Lance, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Sun), and signs will be hung at the Bishop Grandin & Southglen entrances to Royalwood.
To participate just open your garage door, sell your items, and keep all of the money you make. There is no cost to participate.
 After the sale is over the Salvation Army will be setting up a truck or trailer for residents to donate unsold items. Stay tuned for more details about location and times.
Consumer Product Safety
The following link is provided courtesy of the Governemnt of Canada Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch.
Publication: Second-Hand Products and Garage Sales
Garage Sale Hints
· Check your house, attic, basement, garage and shed for hidden 'treasures' that you no longer need.
· Label and price everything
· Remember you can always come down in price but you are likely to have a problem if you try to go up.
· Be prepared to bargain
· Clean items sell easier than grimy ones.
· Clearly mark items not for sale
· Have an extension cord handy if you are selling
electrical appliances
· Keep expensive items close by so that you can keep an eye on them.
· The hours are 8:00am to 2:00pm, but people may be knocking on your door before you are ready for them. Be courteous and ask them to wait until you are ready. Stay in control of your own sale.
· Keep your front and back doors locked if you are selling out of your garage, a distraction could let in unwanted visitors.
· Watch your money! Keep it with you, wear a fanny pack with change in it. Have lots of coins and small bills available for change. Work in pairs, if possible.
· Have grocery bags ready for the items you sell. Also old newspapers for fragile articles.
· Have fun and look as if you're having fun. Customers love to buy from happy sellers.
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