My wife and I had a garage sell (sale? anyone tell me the difference?) over the weekend, I have no words to describe the insanity of it all... but since I am feeling wordy today, I am going to try.
The weeks leading up to the garage sale (I'm going to switch between sell and sale) we did some prep work, deciding what could go (the bookshelves) and what we couldn't part with (my Super nintendo). We researched them on KSL.com, made fancy price lists, added price tags, and we even cleaned out our closets. Friday night I finished moving the big items to the garage and went to bed content and a little worried I would end up hauling everything to the DI because it didnt sell.
We woke up Saturday morning at 6:30, Liz set about putting up signs and buying soda (which we also would sell, for 50 cents) and I slowly set everything out on the driveway. At 7:30 I had a good selection of items on display, bookshelves, entertainment centers, DVD's, beds, TV's... people who were running by started stopping, asking prices on things, I started to think maybe we would sell something!
at 7:50 a.m. Saturday August 1st, what can only be described as chaos erupted in my driveway. I was trying to pack the coolers with ice and water when people just started showing up... by the van loads. By 8:30 most of the clothes were gone, by 9:00 the bookshelves (except the one with the paint peeling off), gone. By 9:30 the Bed, TV's, DVD players, VCR, Lamps, and kitchen table (Which I delivered), coffee table, and most everything that wasn't in bad shape was totally gone. I just remember running up and down the stairs looking for cords, boxes, this and that, I don't know how liz was able to keep up! We kept the yard sale open until about 1:00 and all we had left was a truck bed worth of stuff to take to the DI, overall, a smashing (I'm not british) success!
But thats the entirely the point of this post... what was with all the garage sell junkies? Is there some sort of club? Literally groups of people would show up in vans, browse our goods, and haggle with us, and then buy a pillow for 50 cents. Anyway, that was our weekend in a nutshell! Word to the wise, don't leave your nice air compressor out on the driveway to blow off the dust, everyone will ask you if it is for sale :p
Monday, August 3, 2009
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2 comments:
Sounds fun!
I've done a couple of those in the past, always crazy... but a good way to make a few bucks off stuff you might not want.
Can't say I've ever heard the phrase "garage sell" before - always either "garage sale" or "yard sale". It's got to be a regional thing.
Um...how much is that air compressor??
You should've let me know, I needed some book shelves. Seriously.
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