Garage Sale Saturday

Today was the Saturday I have been planning for a couple of weeks now. Our community wide garage sale.
The weather was dreary, cloudy, and incredibly windy. The wind was so strong that Senior and I both have headaches now.
All week I battled the boys about selling toys. Everytime I put something in a box, little ND started to cry...Oh how I felt awful !. I tried telling him we need money so we can buy new ones...I don't think he cared. They were his toys, and he loves them. Then I thought how I felt when I traded in my Jeep. I could sympathize with him, and I caved.

So today, I got up early, made coffee, dressed warmly and set up in the driveway. I had lots of old halloween costumes, some scrapbook supplies, toys, boy clothes,and other odds and end. I don't think I sold one odd or end. It was mainly the clothes and toys people were after. Which was a sign of the kind of economy we are in. I even had some pint and jelly canning jars out. Only one person looked at them and then she thought my 8.00 for the entire box was too high.

Then Senior added some more guy appropriate items. Most of those sold. I was surprised by the men who were out shopping..again-you can tell what kind of economy we have.

In the end, it was a good day for us, we brought in 80.00, didn't sell everything, donated what we had left over. Which always makes me feel good to be able to make a charitable donation and help people out.