Get a Head start on advertised Yard Sales

Want to get to an advertised yard sale ahead of the crowd? Here's a way to do it. Go to the online version of your local paper late at night and check the classifieds. Most papers I have found will post the following days classified ads around midnight and sometimes earlier on their online versions of the paper and you can look at the sales that look the most promising for the kind of items you are looking for. Most will have a set up where you can click on the ads that interest you and let you click on it and make up your own list of ads to print out. Then you can take some time with your city map and plan your route and prioritize the sales you want to get to early. This method always helps me save time and gas and of course you'll see other unadvertised sales along the way that you can hit too. Many times I will find nicer stuff at the "piggy back" sales that people will pull together to take advantage of the other guys advertising and signs, so don't ignore them. The dealers will usually hit the advertised sales at the break of dawn and cherry pick them before the rest of the crowd because they know this method of getting the info early.