Yard Sale

I recently had a yard sale with my good friend Melissa and her husband Matt. I cleaned out my closets this summer and had a ton of stuff to sell...a lot more than I anticipated. Where did it all come from? At any rate, Melissa and I decided on the Saturday between the first weekend after school started and labor day weekend for the sale. It worked perfectly.

Getting ready for the yard sale takes some work. I can understand why some people don't even bother. My family used to have yard sales growing up. We would always have so much to sell, which makes since I suppose with four kids. For our yard sale, we held it at the Melissa's since I don't have a yard. Thought it would be hard to sell items without one. Melissa put ad add in the local paper, we made signs to put up directing traffic and we had different colored price stickers for our items (yellow for me, green for Melissa).

Pricing all of the stuff took so much time and was really my least favorite thing of the entire yard sale. Well transporting it all to Melissa's was a close second. So many items to price and move. Took me more than two days to price and several trips to drop it all off. Matt even had to come and pick up some of the pieces because they wouldn't fit in my car.

People had warned us about the hagglers and early risers. We saw both. The yard sale was scheduled from 7:30-11:30. When Matt opened the garage at 6:15 to move the cars, someone jumped out of their car to look over what we had. Apparently some other people had already been by and left. The guy was interested in my table but was only willing to pay $20. I passed. We had a good crowd and sold lots of stuff and then looked at the time. It wasn't even 8 am yet.

We had lots of hagglers come through. We had priced our items with some room to negotiate. Some really tried to get things for nothing, others paid what the price tag was. When we had a slow moment I went inside to use the bathroom and get something to drink. I came back outside to lots of people. Matt told me to go to the bathroom more often.

I think Matt enjoyed the yard sale at times more than Melissa and I. He got so excited when his items would sell...it was cute and funny. His items were actually the big ticket items. Way to go Matt! He even considered going back in the house and looking for other things to sell.

Sadly, my table did not sell even though it had some interested people at times. Melissa's prom dress also did not sell...shocking I know. The sale was profitable though. I made over $140 and Melissa and Matt made over $200. They are putting the money towards a stroller. I think I am going to buy a new comforter set. Goes to show....one man's junk is anothers treasure. People don't buy things that you think would sell, and they buy the most random things that you put out for sale.