Pro: All the money you make is yours.
Con: All twelve dollars and forty-two cents of it.
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Pro: You don't have to take any shit from customers:
"Get the hell off my lawn and don't come back!"
Con: All of your psycho neighbors will show up, talk your ear off, buy nothing, and make you want to beat them with the plastic chair you're sitting in.
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Pro: No refunds or exchanges!
Con: They will haggle you to death:
"Fifty cents is too much, how about twenty five?"
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Pro: You don't have to make the merchandise look nice.
Con: There's nothing you can do to make the junk you don't want look expensive.
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Pro: You don't have to do inventory.
Con: All the shit that didn't sell you have to haul back into the house or to the dump.
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Pro: You can wear whatever you want and not take a shower.
Con: The yard sale shoppers don't take showers either.
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Pro: Cash only.
Con: Who the hell carries cash anymore?
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Pro: You can make money off of things you thought were worthless.
Con: Late in the day you'll be tired, sunburned, and so desperate to sell everything because you don't want to pack it up, you'll turn into a cheap-ass Retail Whore and let shit go for pennies, which will eventually lead to you putting up a sign that says: "Everything is free, I can't deal with it anymore please take it and get it the hell out of here!"