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2023 Community Wide Garage Sale Feedback Survey Results 2023 Community-Wide Garage Sale Feedback 13 respondents: 11 hosted a sale - 2 hosted & shopped sale Yes No Maybe Was your sale 11 3* successful? Did you participate 11 2 Thursday - Saturday Do you plan to 5 2 6 participate in 2024 Registration was easy 13 Did you use 7 5 interactive map  2 of 3 respondents were Saturday only participants Feedback:  I'd be more likely to return next year if we could set up and have our sale on Thursday with the option of coming back on Saturday. I think most people were done garage sailing by time we had our Saturday sale.  I didn't register because I wasn't sure if I would be able to host a table at the Community Center until the last minute. The three of us at the CC discussed the one-day Flea Market Style sale to be on Thursday instead of Saturday in the future. The high traffic incentive to put effort into packing a car and hauling "stuff" to another location seems more attractive on Thursdays. Elim Church changed to "Free" on Saturday, that's hard to compete with. It was fun, even with the downpour, and most shoppers who chit- chatted were from Minneapolis. Many "drive by lookers" without stopping. ~ Bee Stignani  Every day we had customers. Thursday was just nonstop though! Big day. I told everyone who came by about the map, Community Center, and Elim Church  Post City wide garage sale signs on main roads Sunday or Monday the week of the sale  Didn’t seem to be as many shoppers this year.  SELLER PERSPECTIVE - We should have spent more time going through things and having more to offer buyers. The map was very helpful and we had people continually - all 3 days. It's good to not have people's names associated with the addresses as in the previous year. From a safety standpoint, I liked that.  SHOPPER PERSPECTIVE - The map was very helpful and we could see where to go. There were some places that seemed too far away for going to only one sale, so we didn't go to those. We also saw many sales that were not on the map. It would be helpful if everyone used it because then we might have gone to them had we known what was at them.  We found some GREAT deals and were so grateful for the people who were selling and marked things so low or free. It really helps people who are on a budget and need to save money, yet need some essential items.  I was really looking forward to the sale on Saturday at the community center and was surprised at how few people participated. It may be helpful to have people register for that as well so we know how many sellers will be there and what they are selling  Many of the folks who stopped at our sale said that the map did not work for them and/or it should have been available earlier. st  June 1 is a bad weekend in my opinion. Bone Lake Garage Sale was always in April, good attendance and first sales of the year. May would be better. Need to open at 8am. Comments from 2 email respondents only (did not fill out a form) -  It was great!  I agree with our discussion that those of us that do the one day at the community center would have the most shoppers on the first day of the sale. I asked all the shoppers after we talked and they all agree as well. (Saturday only at the Community Center parking lot.) Comments from phone call feedback responses –  They participated all three days, shoppers arrived between 8:30 and 9 a.m., well over 100 shoppers. Shoppers continued right up to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Very successful sale.