If you are doing fabric price it by the pound and have sacks to put it in as they gather. $2.00 a pound is the going price around here.
use or make an apron with pockets, tool aprons are good, keep your money there and take the excess in the house ever so often so you aren't pulling wads out in your hands.
Good signage from every direction with something that makes yours stand out, 3 balloons or red neckties or something.
The further ones only need to say MOVING or ESTATE or whatever you are calling them. Within 3 blocks they should have the address. Look at some signs this weekend on a little drive and tell me how many you see that you can read
If you can get a couple of neighbors to do one the same time it will really bring traffic up. (on their own property)
Be friendly friendly friendly to every person that comes by, if nothing else but approaching them and saying good morning. Then leave them alone
Friends that ignore traffic and sit around chatting to each cost themselves a lot of lost sales. Your sale may not be Macy's, but each person who stops is a potential paying customer.
Friday 8-5 or later if you are in a high traffic area
Saturday 8-4
Sunday if at all 8 to noon, 1/2 price on everything.
Don't let the dealers talk you into letting them in early. Yes, they need stock for their shops but what have they ever done for you that the customers there on time haven't?
Don't pack the stuff left, back in the house. Pack it up and take it to donation