Garage Sale

Today we had a garage sale. The neighbor convinced dad that since he was having a garage sale, mom & dad should too. It was a community garage sale so we didn't have to advertise.

The realtor who sponsored the community garage sale dropped off our signs on Friday night. So this morning I was up at 5pm, showered and then woke dad up for 6am. He got showered and dressed and went to stick our signs in the ground.

Around 7am, after having a quick bite, we started bringing stuff out of the garage to arrange for the sale. We had the first visitor at around 7:30am. Early birds! Apparently the sale didn't start till 8.

It started out slow but then it really picked up. At one point we had a traffic jam in front of the house and there seemed to be no end to the people.

I was worried that we wouldn't have a good turnout as the weather was cold and overcast, plus still smoky from the BC forest fires. In the early afternoon the sun did appear and the blue sky was visible.

We didn't have a lot of items out but a nice chunk.

I had to bring the dogs outside as they keeped barking from the house and it got annoying. After a while they started to settle down, especially if I had them on the grass and not behind everything in the garage. A few people wanted to know if the dogs were sale too, but I didn't have any serious offers! ;o)

Jacki came over late morning and made us breakfast. We took turns going inside to have a bite to eat but always had two people outside just in case.

It was fun talking to people and the neighbours.

Around 2pm, mom had enough so we called her quits. What we didn't sell we started packing away to take to Value Village who donates the profits of whatever they sell to a few charities. I was amazed at how easy it was to just drive up to the door and drop things off. They took everything without a question and had their warehouse neatly filled with boxes of donations.

We only had 1 small box to be thrown out and the neighbor took it in return of us taking in a box to Value Village for them.

After all was said, we made about $129.40 profit.