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The Yuma garage sale guide
We spend most weekends of the season at these sales, so we’ve watched a lot of them go well and a lot of them go badly. Here’s what actually matters, in the order it matters.
Most garage sale advice on the internet was written for somewhere with four seasons and no ordinance. Yuma is its own thing: the season runs backwards from the rest of the country, the heat sets the hours, the city caps how many sales you can hold, and the sign rules are stricter than almost anyone realizes until a code officer pulls their arrow off a pole.
These pages are the parts we get asked about most. None of them are trying to sell you anything — read them, run your sale, and if you’ve got clothes and shoes left over at the end, that’s when we’re useful.
Start with these
When to hold your sale
Why the season is October through April, why Thursday through Saturday beats Sunday, and what time to actually open. Get this wrong and nothing else matters.
What the city allows
Three consecutive days, three times a year, per address. The full text of the ordinance and what happens if you go past it.
Where signs are legal
Yuma prohibits signs on public property, and that includes the pole on the corner and the strip beside the road. What’s left, and how to make it work.
Pricing clothes
Clothing is the category people price worst. What things actually sell for, what to bundle, and what to pull out of the sale entirely.
The two-week checklist
A countdown from fourteen days out to the moment you drag the last table back into the garage.
Get paid $20 first
We pay hosts twenty dollars cash to look through the clothing and shoes before the sale opens. You keep the money whether we buy anything or not.
The five-minute version
- Season is October to April. A June sale in Yuma is a very hot morning spent alone in your driveway.
- Open early — six or seven in the morning. The serious buyers come first and the heat arrives by ten, even in winter.
- Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the days here. Sunday is thin.
- You get three sales a year at one address, three consecutive days each. City code, not a guideline.
- Signs on public property are prohibited — no poles, no medians, no right-of-way. Private property with permission is the safe play.
- Price clothes to move and bundle aggressively. Nobody is buying a $6 shirt off a folding table.
- Have a plan for what’s left. Clothing is what nobody takes and what you least want to haul back inside.
The one thing we’d change about most sales we visit: clothes on the ground, in totes, unsorted. Nobody digs. A $12 folding rack and twenty hangers will out-earn every other dollar you spend on the sale.
What we do, in one paragraph
We buy used clothing and shoes for cash and resell them. That’s the whole business. It means we’re at a lot of Yuma garage sales, we know what the clothing on your tables is worth, and we’d rather buy it before or after your sale than watch it go in a donation bag. Free pickup, cash at the door, and no obligation if you don’t like the number. Here’s the full list of what we buy.
Skip the whole thing?
If the clothing is the part you’re dreading, send photos and we’ll just buy it.
Rather just text them? (928) 294-6488