The Thing about Garage Sales...

Garage sales are fun, not only to go to, but to have as well. Not only are you able to devoid your dwelling of unneeded items, you make a few extra bucks in the process and feel good about helping someone else find a treasure or two for very little cost. The not-so-fun part is getting ready for the sale. Since it was going to be at my house, we had to have the garage available. Duh. Too bad it was filled floor to ceiling with boxes, yard gear and lawn equipment.

We needed to build our shed in the yard in order to move out a good portion of tools and such, to make room for the sale, but more importantly, for the actual cars that should be residing there. I'll leave the details of the shed for another post, but needless to say, we got it all up and put together mid-week (minus the shingles) and were able to start weeding through the mess that was our garage. By Thursday afternoon, 3/4 of the garage was clean. It lasted this way for about 10 min.

Setting up went pretty well but we needed more tables. Luckily, my mom came through and we came up with a good plan for our setup. Friday was a gorgeous day and we had steady traffic the entire time. None of the big stuff sold though, which was kinda disappointing. But we figured that more people come on a Saturday anyway and we would be good after another day. Too bad Saturday never even saw a sale. Not one. It rained in buckets constantly until right about the time we had everything packed up and put away, or 1:30 in the afternoon. Bummer. My garage is still full of stuff. Bigger bummer. We're going to have to do it all over again in a few weeks at my sister's house (which is in a better location I think). Total bummer.

And....I did learn something funny about having a garage/yard sale in Cascade Township. Don't be surprised when your shoppers pull up in Hummers and Corvettes and Lincolns! Ha ha ha ha....perhaps their frugal garage sale finds allowed them the privilege of owning a vehicle like that....or, perhaps not. Either way, it made us all laugh. Only in America...