Problem: Article: Check with your city or homeowner's association to find out if you need a permit to have a garage sale. Many cities place restrictions on garage sales, dictating where you can place advertisement signs when you can sell, and how often you can hold a sale. These serve to distinguish sellers who are conducting retail within a residential zone and from full-time commercial operations. It's better to take the time to do your research, and to pay the small fee for a permit than to risk losing more money in fines. This means having many families and neighbors holding garage sales at the same time as you. Each family or house will attract their own buyers who might visit other homes and their sales that are happening at the same time. Multi-family garage sales are often more successful than single family garage sales. If you mix items in a multi-family sale, color-code your price tags or clearly mark the items as yours so that your cashier will know who should get the money for each item. Let the other families know or the cashier which items are available for haggling and which are not, especially if all your items are mixed together. A two-day garage sale is usually enough to sell out most of your stock, and summer weekendsespecially Fridays and Saturdaysare the best times. Choose a day when a lot of potential buyers will be out and about. Most yard sales start early in the morning as early as 8 a.m. and can end late in the evening. Plan to set aside an entire day. For example, hold a sale from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Check the local weather forecast, and try to avoid rain, snow, or extra chilly days. Warm days usually bring people out of their homes more. Be careful about scheduling your sale during special events and holidays, as many potential customers will have something more urgent to do than drive around picking through garage sales. Some streets and neighborhoods will have "Annual Garage/Yard Sale" days. These are your opportune moments. On these days, everyone is out looking for yard sales in your area. Notices about these days may appear in the mail. Avoid holding a sale when there is road construction occurring along the main route to your sale location. Construction may keep away potential customers who are either avoiding the traffic or in a bad mood from the traffic. If you're just having a single-family sale, your location is pretty much set: hold the sale in front of your house in your yard, your driveway, or an open garage. If you're having a multifamily or charity sale, be sure to pick a spot that is large enough for everybody's wares and choose a location that is easy to find and to get to. It should preferably be at a location nearby like a park or parking lot. your sale. You don't need to advertise ahead of time, but it may dramatically increase your customer traffic. Your local newspaper may offer a deal on ads for garage sales. If your sale is happening on Friday, you should have an ad in the paper by Wednesday or just on Thursday. You also want to make sure to get your ad into the paper before the deadline, which could be several days in advance before you plan to show the ad in the paper Advertise in free weekly community shopping papers and on community bulletin boards in grocery stores and laundromats. Spread the word through your local neighborhood grapevine. Don't overlook the internet. There are many sites that allow you to place advertisements for free. Post to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms. Invite your network to peruse your wares. a few days before the sale. Give the date and time of the sale, the location and, if you have room, list some items for sale. The signs can be as simple as "Garage Sale: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m on Saturday at 1515 Whiskery Way", or "Yard Sale Saturday: 1515 Whiskery Way" with an arrow pointing down the street toward your house. Try to find a balance of information that's useful, fun, and easy to read from a moving vehicle. Make sure that the phrase "Garage Sale" or "Yard Sale" is prominent. Use plain, bold colors and simple lettering when conveying your garage sale's information. Use a sturdy material for your garage sale signs, like a couple of layers of poster board or corrugated cardboard, so that the wind won't bend it. Hang your signs a few days before the sale in places where they will be noticed by many passersbys. You can tape signs to telephone poles, lamp posts, trees, and stop-sign poles. Put a sign at the entrance to your neighbourhood, or in front of your house. If you live near a major road, hang the signs on telephone poles or street signs at an intersection on that road. Intersections with stop signs or traffic signals are particularly good places to put a poster. In case, check your municipality's or homeowners association's rules regarding signs.
Summary: Obtain a permit if it's required in your area. Consider organizing a multi-family or community garage sale. Set a date and time for your sale. Choose a location for your sale. Advertise Make signs Post the signs around your neighborhood.

Problem: Article: Start with the paper turned so it looks like a diamond. Then, fold the top point down so it touches the bottom point. Crease and then unfold. If you don't have a square piece of paper, cut a regular piece of paper into a square with scissors.
Summary: Fold a square piece of paper in half diagonally and then unfold it.

Problem: Article: Making bright or deep red frosting can be difficult, but the color of the icing will deepen as time passes. It's best to prepare the frosting 24 to 72 hours before you'll need it so the color can set. This is especially important if you want pure red frosting made with only red food coloring, but the same trick can also apply to red variations if they aren't as deep in color as you'd like. When you need to create dark or bright shades of red, the amount of dye used can cause the icing to become bitter. Taste-testing the icing as you work will allow you to monitor the change in flavor and prevent too much bitterness from developing. If the icing does become bitter, however, you can usually fix it by adding more flavoring. Stick with clear extracts, and use roughly 1/4 tsp (1.25 ml) per 1 cup (250 ml) of icing.
Summary:
Make the frosting early. Periodically taste the icing.