We respect your privacy. All email addresses you provide garae be used just for sending this story. Planning and running a garage sale yourself takes a lot of time. The benefit, though, is that you get to pocket all the proceeds. And as long as you sell items for less than you paid for them and don’t hold sales so often that you have a regular business, you don’t need to report your earnings to the IRS. Store them in an out-of-the-way area, say, in your basement or garage. Pick the day you’ll hold the sale, and check with your municipal yoj to see whether you need a permit. Also ask whether there are restrictions on where you can post signs to advertise your sale. When the day comes, make sure you have lots of change and small bills on hand, and follow these additional tips. Too many garage sales are a haphazard yoh of stuff. Don’t be afraid to use time-tested supermarket and department store promotion tricks. What should you sell?