I started to set a few things up on Wednesday night, but ended up feeling really sick, so I had to quit almost right after I started. My mom got here around 6:30 on Thursday night to help me set it all up. We ended up working until about 9:00, but got it done. We had 7 or 8 tables filled. We lined part of the driveway with stuff and we turned bins upside down when we ran out of space and used them as mini tables!
Setting up
Mom apparently pulling her pants up while I snapped the picture.
And as I'm helping mom unload her bins, I pull these out:
Yes...my mother put Stayfree pads in my garage sale. The most hilarious part was that the 2nd lady to come through on our first day, bought them. I was amused.
The garage sale was scheduled to open at 9:00 on Friday morning, but by 8:15 people were creeping by the house and walking up the driveway, so we opened at 8:30. The first 2 hours were insane. I'm not joking...I think half of our items were gone in those 2 hours alone. We marked things super cheap and let people make offers. The goal was to get it all cleared out.
The afternoon was a bit boring. We still had people come, but we closed at 4:30 instead of 5 and came in to order pizza. Then mom and I tried to organize a little in the spare room. I took down my scrapbook table to use in the sale and decided just to leave it down since it had to come out of there at some point anyway. It was overwhelming and I was exhausted, so not a whole lot got done.
Yesterday we opened at 9 and closed at Noon. We started with probably 15 boxes (mainly the big bins) of stuff and ended with 4 tiny boxes to take to Goodwill. I was quite proud and probably couldn't have done it without my mom's help!
Non-sale related...I wore my first pair of maternity clothes yesterday. A pair of capris I got for my birthday. Here's a couple of pictures of my little bump that's starting.
Right about 14 weeks along:
She and I drove to Springfield after we cleaned up the garage and dropped boxes at Goodwill. Then had a late lunch at Burger King because I could not stop thinking about a double cheeseburger! Went to Hobby Lobby and then to the mall to check out Motherhood.
On the way into the mall, the door tried to kill my mom. The lip was raised off the ground and her flip flop got wedged underneath of it. She flew forward and her flip flop tore. I felt really bad when it happened, but then I kept replaying it later and I couldn't stop laughing. She wasn't supposed to walk barefoot in the mall, but the nice security guard allowed us to walk to Payless to get her a new pair of shoes.
Found a pair of maternity jeans (that are LONG enough!) and a couple of tank tops at Motherhood and then came back and went to the high school graduation with Jacob. 35 minute graduation, compared to the 3 hour ones that I've been accustomed too! Then had DQ at a treat afterward.
Today mom came to church with us and then we went out for lunch at Veracruz with Seth, Sandy and the boys before mom had to head back home.
Such a fun weekend. Sad it's over, but there's another 3 day weekend coming up this next weekend! And this time I'm headed to Iowa! Yay!
How fun and tiring! You look so adorable! Poor Janet and her flip flop - I would have laughed too. Sorry Janet. Looks like you did do well on your yard sale. You made a good team I would say.
ReplyDeleteI know you are so looking forward to coming to Iowa - I will be praying for good weather and travel mercies!