Well, I have not gotten to participate in the Neighborhood garage sale because I was always working and didn't feel I had enough time to take off for a garage sale. I would rather spend my vacation time on a real vacation. But since I've retired, I decided to give it a go this year and I drug stuff out of several corners of the basement and even went through trying on clothes. Some fit and some don't. Then I had to decide what I would wear and what I wouldn't ever wear. I printed up sale tags with prices and got to work deciding how much would some one really pay for this and that. I spent the better part of 2 weeks cleaning sorting and even throwing away.
My sister brought some things over and said just take them and make them go away. My neighbor brought over 4 real nice oak kitchen chairs and said she didn't have enough to have a sale herself, so would I mind if she sat them out. I had a washer, coffee table, serger, halloween costumes, Christmas decorations, fall decorations, planters, scarves and clothes of all kinds. We have lived here since 1992 and I had donated stuff to local shelters and centers, but this was a chance to make a little profit myself.
Today went well, I got up early and take my bath and got all dressed then made mistake of sitting down and leaning my head back on the sofa. Well I was asleep in a flash. An hour later, I wake up, look at the clock and it is time to open the doors. There were 23 homes in our little neighborhood participating so we had quite a variety of items to look thru. My husband and I sat out and visited and we met more of our own neighbors making the rounds themselves. Yes, I went down the street and reinvested some of our profit in a driver(golf) and a case for my laptop. You know money was made round to roll and i enjoy rolling it.
Today was the first time in a long time, I've just sat and done nothing for a day. It makes me nervous, I keep thinking of all the things I need to do inside. All the visitors nearly drove our dogs wild. I am sure they are hoarse from barking. And we are dog-sitting my sisters 2 dogs also. So we kept busy in the off time walking dogs, 2 at a time. Ginger is a golden retreiver and Katie is a rat terrier. Mini and Max, our dogs are dachschunds. I have to feed Max separately, he is small and all the girls are more dominant. Ginger is gentle, except around food. Katie was named after our mother, she is a little snippy at times, just like our mother. Mini is the queen and she feels displaced when all the dogs are here. She gets her nose in a twit and acts put out, but she recovers nicely when they leave.
Tomorrow is supposed to be in the low 90s. It was warm today and the humidity was high. I don't expect as much traffic tomorrow, but we will see what happens. We are on a cul-de-sac and there are only 2 of us on this end participating. Everything we make is profit and we will start on Friday "Make us an offer" Many folks have specific things they are looking to purchase. Old records, 45s and costume jewelry, hunting and fishing equipment, tools of all sorts. I have albums of my mothers and my husbands mothers, but I didn't have time to sort thru them. Maybe that will be on my list of things to sell next year.
Anyway, we had a great day and plan to enjoy tomorrow and all the events it brings our way.