I had a yard sale once and never again. When I want to get rid of stuff, I either sell it on eBay or take it to a resale shop. The sale was awful: I had no idea people would be banging on the door at the crack of dawn, or that I'd have to referee a fight over a Barbie doll, or that people would bargain over something marked $1, or that they would *demand* that I sell them several things for $---, plus try to keep folks from nearly digging my plants up -- nothing is sacred.

For me, it was way too much work for way too little money. My time is worth something too, and for all the work I spent arranging stuff and minding the 'store,' I got almost nothing. Dropping stuff off at the resale store is quick, easy, and best of all -- it's out of my house.