Garage Sale

BEG and I had our first garage sale this weekend. It started off by us posting hot pink signs Wednesday evening letting people know we were having a sale Saturday at 7am.

As we were preparing things last night an elderly couple stopped by to see if they could get a "sneak peak" (not a joke!) It got even worse when BEG informed them that the majority of the merchandise was in the house and the lady responds "that's okay we will just go in there then and look at it" and they did!!!! My friend, Caroline, and I were in the living room chatting amongst boxes when BEG escorted this kind couple in (sense the sarcasm?!) She ended up buying one thing for $10 but the audacity of some people is unbelievable.

We set the alarm for 5am so that we would have plenty of time to get everything out and organized before people started coming. Well if I learned one thing throughout this whole process is that you can NEVER get up too early for a garage sale. Our first customer came at 6:07am and you guessed it, it was the crazy couple from last night (they didn't buy anything this time!) They were closely followed by a man at 6:15 (so much for putting a time on our signs!!)

After we finally got everything set up around 7am it started to RAIN!!!! I was so discouraged but our kind neighbor saw us setting up and then saw it raining a few minutes later and kindly brought over some plastic wrap to cover our stuff until the rain went away. It lasted about 20 minutes but the people never stopped coming (thank goodness!)

We wrapped things up at noon with about 2/3rds of the stuff we started with GONE and $525.45 in our pockets!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO........

We then immediately loaded up what was left of our goods and split them between Goodwill and the Providence House. It feels so good to have our garage back and money in the pocket!!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

CMG