We made it through day one of a two day neighborhood garage sale!  4 families all on the same side of the street.  We had lots of cars, vans and trucks parked up and down the street.  At first it reminded me of a small carnival but after the initial blast of customers things settled into more of a calm sale.  Folks would come in  small groups.  Then a lull and then another group.  Sort of strange, but that was the way it went.

We unloaded a lot of good stuff that we wanted to get rid of and it’s always surprising what people are looking for.  Our last customer was looking for a special type of salt shaker.  Another guy a broom.  One lady bought 4 or 5 old mugs.  An antique guy was here but we didn’t have anything he wanted.  And a guy who likes metal signs bought an 1936 Utah license plate that was quite rusty and had 22 caliber holes in it. And several guys wanted fishing gear and guns.   My deal of the day was selling my Gerber Biter for $10!  And that guy was a way happy guy.  His wife was too and she gave me the cash and said she was going to put it in her purse as she wanted it worse than he did.  I last saw him with it.

Tomorrow is the end and we have some very special stuff to put out for it.   A pellet gun and a set of tire chains!  What will be the desired items people will be looking for tomorrow?  That’s anyone’s guess!

Passed yard sales have seen people looking for buttons, sewing stuff, curios etc.  Whatever they want if they hit enough of the yard sales around they will find what they are looking for.

Bears Butt

June 22, 2012

Officially over!

A great day but much different than yesterday.  Maybe there is something about what I read that Friday is a better day than Saturday to have a yard sale.  This was the first time trying it for us.

As for take…well…we were trying to get rid of stuff and so we didn’t charge too much for anything and actually gave some things away for nothing.  A hardy thanks to the folks that took those things.  It was another fun day of meeting and talking to people, which is why I like these things anyway.

We keep track of what we sell and how much we got for it etc., and we had almost 2 full pages of stuff that is gone!  GONE!  What I mean is it is GONE!  We have a smallish pile that will go to good will on Monday and two small boxes of stuff that went back into the basement (seed for the next yard sale, does it ever end?)  And we have some “investment money” in our pockets.  Anyone have any hot leads?

Boy was it hot today.  I think we could have made more money selling sodas or water.

It was fun!  Thanks Magpie for taking all that muzzy stuff.  I hope you can make your own rifle from the parts and also make some extra on the side selling to others in need!  You helped me out big time!

Bears Butt

P.M. same day as this post started