Muh honey and I hosted a garage sale yesterday. I find garage sales and the whole experience to be fascinating.
The garage sale was a last minute decision when we realized that our town was going to have a fall festival of sorts. Put some signs out on Main Street ... guide them... and sell them our stuff was our goal! We also knew we would benefit from the YMCA from across the street. People were going to go work out and stop at our place on the way in or out. We were right.
Throughout the week, muh honey and I made boxes of stuff and put prices on them and made sure that everyone knew what things cost so there wouldn't be any real debate. We took all the furniture out as well that we wanted to sell. We put prices on the furniture that made them "Priced to Sell!"
We didn't put any advertisements in any papers. We only made some bright pink signs with arrows pointing everyone where they needed to go. The signs stood out and they worked great. We had a good time walking around the town the night before from about 9 to 10 at night hanging up the fifteen brightly colored signs.
The signs read YARD SALE, 9-?, 10/2/2004 followed with a big arrow showing you where to go! At 7:30 that morning, we started putting everything out in the driveway.
By 8:00 am (even though the sale started officially at 9), we had made about $100 from the various "early bird" transients that pick over your stuff right away. Garage sale buyers are a serious bunch and get to places as early as possible.
By 12:30, we were tapped and decided to close up shop. It also started to drizzle and looked as if it was ready to downpour on our heads at any moment. The amount of money we made was enough to justify having a garage sale and to pay for the moving van last week that we rented to move muh honey's big furniture to the new house.
Are garage sales a lot of work? Yes. Are we glad that we did it? Yes. Will we have another one in the Spring? Yes... especially since all of our stuff is already priced. Will we invite more people to set up tables and whatnot? Sure thing!
P.S. Anyone want or know someone who may want a kitchen table and 4 chairs set? The set is in great condition and it was the only thing we didn't get rid of of major size.
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Because I chastise you when I think you're taking too much credit for our joint efforts, I feel compelled now to say that 95% of the work for the sale was done by the Smelmooo. Most of the sorting and pricing and moving stuff around, as well as ALL of the sign-making, was you. I just enjoyed the ride and held the flashlight while you put up the signs :)
--YH
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