Make one of your annual school fundraisers a schoolyard sale. Ask parents, staff, and neighbors in the community to donate gently used clothes, toys, books, tools, household goods, jewelry, and whatever else they may have lying around. To facilitate the process, you can request that they put a price tag on each item they donate. It saves the sale coordinators an enormous amount of tome, and it also ensures that you are asking a fair price for the item. Make it clear that the items that do not sell will not be returned; instead, they will be donated to a local charity or thrift store.
Prepare for the sale by promoting it widely in school announcements and community newsletters or bulletin boards. Don’t have it on a holiday weekend. Make plenty of readable, attractive signs for the day of the sale. Make sure you have plenty of volunteers, snacks, and drinks to sell to customers, and extra-extra small bills and coins for change. You’ll also need calculators for totaling purchases and piles of plastic and paper grocery bags (reused, of course!).