The Garage Sale
Obviously, we started the morning of our sale off right.
ALSO, one of my good friends texted me first thing that morning that a home nearby had just shared a photo of her sale on Facebook and it had the EXACT rock n play for sale that I had on my registry for Mabel. So, I started our sale day spending money and ditching Jim haha! But, $20 good condition RNP? Totally worth it.
During our sale last year it rained the ENTIRE sale. Complete with thunder, lightning, and HAIL. Yet, for some reason, the crowds were insane. We had tons and tons and tons of people in and out of our garage.
This year? It was sunny and 70, albeit windy, yet the crowds were ridiculously light. I don’t get it.
Unfortunately because it was so windy we had to keep our stuff in the garage, which I always hate doing, but we still did decent.
Abigail was quite the helper and was our official garage sale greeter. Saying hello and thank you/have a good day are two of her biggest specialties.
Her little neighborhood friend came over to play also which was awesome because it kept her entertained AND he brought his Little Tikes basketball goal over with him- which people stopped to shop because they thought it was for sale(it wasn’t) but it was a great bait and switch lol!
Altogether we made about $175 this sale, which was a lot less than we were hoping, but we were able to get rid of our bar stools, old counters, and some other bulky items that we didn’t want to keep around anymore. Plus, we just stuck everything that didn’t sell into a box and back up into the attic- ready and waiting(and already tagged!) for next year’s sale.
The stuff we didn’t want to mess with anymore got taken to Goodwill and our local Habitat For Humanity Restore and now it’s safe to say that our house, garage, and attic are much more organized and cleared out! Plus, it was a pretty fun way to spend a morning together 🙂
Have you ever hosted a garage sale? How did it go?
It feels so good to get rid of stuff, doesn't it? Glad you guys were able to sell a few things and get organized ahead of little Mabel's arrival! 🙂
What a good plan before Mable comes! I LOVE that picture of Abigail with her nose crinkled! lol! Hallie does that too!
Everything cleaned out AND $175 burning a hole in your pocket? Sounds like a successful weekend to me!
Not too shabby! We're having our first sale this weekend, we have 8 years worth of clutter, so it should be fun?! ?
Glad you made some money and got rid of big things. I am anxious to have a yard sale and am collecting things for it. Maybe this fall? I'll have to go back and read your garage sale tips post because I've never had one before. I'd love to make some extra cash 🙂 Hope you have a great week!!
I need to have a garage sale too but they just seem like SO MUCH WORK. Part of me wants to just call the Arc and have them pick up all my crap so I don't have to look at it one second longer.
We are having our very first one this upcoming Saturday! I'm excited. Our community is doing it.
I love garage sales 😉 We always find great things!!!!!
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I keep saying I want to do a garage sale, but I always chicken out! HAHAHA 🙂
I once bought a pair of sheets from a weird neighbor girl. You might know her. Lived on stagecoach
I just did my first garage sale ever about 2 weeks ago. It was actually kind of fun and I made some decent money.
xx, Michelle
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The donuts look like the best way to start any day.
We had a garage sale when we moved from KC. I "advertised" the sale, along with some of the big ticket items, on Craigslist, and a lady saw it, came by and literally bought every single piece of large furniture I had for sale (kitchen table and chairs, futon, TWO full size beds and a computer desk)! We made just over $300, and a solid 2/3 of that came from ONE lady. It was nuts.
Your family is just so cute! Its so crazy how garage sales work. I was blessed with a 3 car garage and my family and do a big blow out usually every other summer. It is always a huge turnout a d we do pretty well. I love it!
That RNP will be the best investment ever…and an awesome price! Stella practically lived in hers for the first couple months, ha. Sounds like a good day all around.
I cannot even tell you how much I want to have a garage sale. I am a hoarder (thanks a lot princess Ariel!) and am in a huge purging spree. I want to get rid of all the clutter! I've already taken about three huge garbage bags of towels to the Goodwill! I want to do a garage sale to raise money for Adoption #2 but I feel like they take so much planning…do they really?
Ahhh, I love decluttering! Sounds like you still did pretty dang good in my book! That's so crazy that there were crowds last year when it was bad weather and light this year with much better weather. And those donuts made my mouth water!
I love having garage sales there's something about donuts, coffee, getting rid of stuff and hanging with the fam that is so much fun to me! My family thinks I'm crazy lol
yay for clearing stuff out! hopefully next year will be better. and what a score on that rock n play!
Love Abigail's smile 🙂 We helped host one a while back and it went pretty well. We had to start posting the large items on Craigslist and Offer Up to get people there for them but it worked out!