Yard Sale

We had a long weekend. We had Friday off for Rodeo Day. Having Rodeo Day off here would be equivalent to the first day of hunting season off up North. Nobody would go to school that day so they made it a holiday. Of course, we had to trade it for President's Day. So rather than pay homage to our forefathers, we pay tribute to the cowboy! Yahoo!

Anyway, since we had the long weekend, we decided to try our hands at a yard sale. We've been talking about having one for a long time and every time we come across some little knick-knack, rather than throw it away, we'd save it for the yard sale. So on Friday, we pulled out a bunch of "junk" and put it in the yard. Paula came over to help. (Thank you Paula!) We put a sign out on the median on the main drag and customers started pouring in. By the end of the day, although we didn't really sell anything major ($10 for a dog house that Shae won't use was the biggest ticket item), we ended up making about $260! Not bad for mostly quarter and dollar priced items!

The thing about yard sales is you get all the "bargain hunters" who want everything for nothing. If I asked a dollar, they wanted to pay 50 cents. A few things I didn't mind as I was happy to get rid of them, but most stuff I stood my ground. They either bought it for my price or they could easily walk away. I didn't care which they chose. I'd say about half paid my price.

Today was day two of the sale. We stayed open about 5 hours today. Sales weren't as good, but overall I can't really complain. Again, nothing really big went (we had patio furniture, end tables, chairs, and a dresser set for baby--sadly we still do!) but we did sell a lot of little junk. I had two very old purses that were in halfway decent condition. One was never used (John's mother bought it years ago..the tags were still on it) and I was asking a quarter for each. One lady offered me a quarter for both. I said no 25 cents each. She said, but the one is damaged and it's not good. She'd only pay 25 cents for both. I looked at her and said "Lady this is a yard sale. Twenty five cents each." She didn't buy the purses, but good grief! (By the way, there really wasn't anything wrong with the purse. The leather straps that were decorative on the front were peeling like leather does when it gets old. Sheesh! Go to Walmart and buy yourself a new purse for $15 then and leave me a lone!)

Our sale is over and everything is packed away again. Maybe we'll try again next weekend or maybe we'll wait until Spring break. I'm not really in any hurry to sale again. But from now on, to heck with saving things for a yard sale...everything is going in the trash!