Garage Sale

Last spring I decided to hold our annual garage sale in Cedar Rapids instead of Davenport.  I thought it would be nice for Molly to store all of the stuff instead of me this time.  It would also be nice to meet her neighbors if they came by.  As always, I encouraged friends and family to purge and give me their items to sell.    

The sale was a huge success but Molly said she never wanted to have another one at her house.  Garage sales can be stressful.  When I gave my friend the money she had earned she was ecstatic! She couldn't believe she made that much with just junk she had planned to donate.  She was so excited she asked if I would do another small pop up sale.  I told her I would but I wouldn't be able to accept her items and store them until I was done with the latest doll house.

Once the doll house was complete in July, I told her to start bringing me things.  I have to have everything priced so it takes me awhile to get through everything.   I had a lot of help from Binx with pricing.

As word got around that I was having a sale, more people gave me their stuff.  A colleague of mine was putting her house on the market so she was excited to bring me truckloads.  We ended up have 12 people representing their treasures at this sale.

My house was starting to look like a hoard.  It was time to set a date which took a lot of planning because I need Molly to be there with me to run the computer.  Her schedule wouldn't allow her to take a Friday off so we planned on Labor Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday.  I was a little worried about not having a Friday sale because that is usually a very successful day.

Our garage was even full of items.

I couldn't believe my friend wanted to sell Santa after she looked so hard to find him. I have a rule that once you give me something to sell, you can't have it back.  She regretted giving him to me and asked if I could make an exception.  I told her she could have Santa back so I had to take him to work with me to drop him off.   Imagine the looks I had when driving to work that morning!

The sale was VERY successful, even when we didn't have it on a Friday.  I wanted to take photos of the sale when it was set up but the first customers came at 7am when we started at 8am.  It took off from there and we were so busy, I didn't get any photos!  This was the first time I had to use the whole front yard as well as the driveway and garage.

Everyone is now talking about the spring sale they want me to host!

By the way, Mary helped a customer carry her bags to the car and the customer wanted her to have this!!!!