Mother of all Garage Sales!!!

You have seen the pictures of boxes to the ceiling and know that we are seriously limited on space in this house, which means it was time for a MAJOR purge! So, I posted ads in the paper and on craigslist that said "Mother of All Garage Sales", made signs we posted around the neighborhood, borrowed tables from the church, and decided to have a garage sale Friday and Saturday.

Joe had HAD it with all the stuff and kept saying " let's just take it to Goodwill, we're not going to make any money on all of this!" I was adamant- I would do all the work, but I was going to have this garage sale and see how much we could make!

This is what the house looked like for about a week pre- garage sale...everything was sorted in to categories and priced in boxes around the downstairs.






Well, Friday morning we started carrying things out and setting up around 5:30am and by 6:00 there was a swarm of people. Several people actually asked me if they could come in the house and see what we hadn't brought outside yet, to which i said a firm "no."

Both days we were supposed to go from 7-noon, but both days we actually went til about three because people just kept coming! Several times I would look up and there was a line to pay for things...i counted 25 people at one point!







The 5'x10' dog crate didn't sell by the end of it and we were bummed because it takes up a lot of space and we really wanted to sell it- it was only a year old, but we didn't have a place for it here. The next day a lady called and asked if we still had i the crate...she came and picked it up later that day and gave me $175!


SO, drumroll please...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................the grand total was right around $1,300! Woohoo!!! I say let's have another garage sale!:)

With the money, we are taking a trip to see family soon and we will also be organizing the garage and office. No more clutter, we're only keeping what we absolutely NEED- I don't ever want to make the move again with that much stuff!