Garage Sale Fun

 

I told you yesterday that my sister flew out to help me prep for a sale so we could sell the remaining items my parents couldn’t keep in their downsizing.

            We had a super successful sale! Lori and I spent three full days sorting, cleaning, pricing, sorting some more, and laying everything out. And then, as I’ve done many times before, I made all kinds of nerdy little signs to hang with our groupings if items. I always feel like an organized and well-labeled sale is a better sale.

            I shared about it on Facebook, and we actually had some friends who drove from Kokomo, Marion, and Richmond to visit the sale.

            I also made this cute sign, which many people mentioned as extra creative. It took me almost two hours to put it two versions of it all together. Those little letters were not the easiest to punch out, so it took a while, but it was totally worth it.

            Our sale ran on Friday and Saturday, so on Friday, Ryan and I got up at 6 and were out there by 6:30, pulling things out of the garage and arranging them in the driveway. It took us a full hour to get it all set up. I had this cute sign to try to keep early shoppers at bay. It ultimately failed.

            But the first day was amazing. We had shoppers from 7:30 to 4 p.m. with very few breaks. My parents brought us lunch from Subway, which was a blessing!

            Lexi came out a few times to visit, but most of the time it was too busy for us to keep track of her and tend to customers.

            Saturday was a much slower day, ironically, and we ended up closing up shop a little sooner than we planned, just because we stopped having any traffic at all. Ryan used part of the day to practice his Scripture reading for Sunday - and he scooped horse poop off the road. Other duties as assigned!

            We sold almost everything, and we had a lot of fun in the process. I was so thankful Ryan took off work on Friday to help me. Never could have done it all on my own!

            Last year after our moving sale, we said no more garage sales. WRONG! So I won’t say it this year, but truly, it’s not our goal to have one every year!