‘Rummage’ before you sell

Are you planning a home sale? Are you ready to relocate, moving your family, along with all of your goods and possessions, to the house of your dreams? Well if so, then you may wish to host another variety of sale first; or, to be more specific, a rummage sale.

How on earth could these two entirely different types of sales be related? Well think about it; if you are indeed about to move all of your goods and possessions to another location, then it might be helpful to have fewer of those goods and possessions to move. And while you no doubt will throw out certain older items that have little to no monetary value, you may wish to gather up the rest and put them up for sale at a good old fashioned, rummage style event.

Indeed, the theory of rummaging before you resell actually offers a number of benefits and advantages. And, very conveniently, we’ve listed just a few of them here:

1. Instead of having to move all your stuff, you instead can move only some of your stuff; unloading the stuff that you don’t use anymore onto people who might want or even need said stuff. So just what kind of stuff are we referencing? Well that brings us to our next point…

2. You can sell just about anything at a rummage sale. The items you offer could include clothing, collectibles, kitchen appliances, furniture, dinner and serving ware, lamps and lighting fixtures, carpets and rugs, artwork of every variety, home theater devices that range from televisions to DVD players to stereos, toys, books and magazines, etc.

3. A rummage sale is a rudimentary form of house cleaning. Once you sell some of the extra stuff you have lying around the house, then your home will appear cleaner and less cluttered. This can only benefit you when you post your home for sale, as an orderly, more attractive residence is an infinitely more sellable one.

4. A rummage sale will attract many guests to your home. Indeed, many people consider rummaging to be their primary weekend activity. And as guests flood your home to clear it of unwanted goods, they also might take a liking to the store itself—i.e., the home that you eventually intend to sell. The same person who buys your 20 year issue of Bass Fishing Monthly also might be interested in buying the house from which it was sold. Who’d a thunk it?