Garage Sale Day

Mitch and I spent the past two weeks immersed in getting our stuff ready for Lincoln Crossing's 1st Annual Community Garage Sale, and we were really excited to get rid of some of our old stuff and make a little money in the process. The boys packed their overnight bags and headed down to spend the night with Gigi and Granddad so that we could work without four extra little hands "helping" us. Unfortunately, the weather didn't exactly cooperate with our plan. I had kept a close eye on the weather all week as rain predictions for Saturday morning went from 30% to 80% and back again. Despite the pouring rain on Friday night, KCRA's Mark Finan repeatedly told me (at both 5:00 and 11:00!) that the daylight hours on Saturday would remain dry, so we woke up before sunrise on Saturday morning to set up our stuff.

We joked all morning that we should have kept a tally sheet, because at least a dozen people made the comment "You're SO organized!" One neighbor lady who was just out for a walk had to stop and comment on how well organized she thought we were. After awhile we started the joke became about how messy and bad the other sales must look since ours really wasn't that impressive. People really seemed to appreciate that I wrote the sizes of all the clothing on its price tag though - it really keeps everything neater since people don't have to dig through everything to find sizes.

Around 9:00 it started sprinkling pretty heavily...

and by 10:00 we brought all of the soaking wet clothes inside and called it a day. I should mention that I have totally lost my faith in Mark Finan's forecast ;)

It was kind of disappointing to put all that effort into only 3 hours of sale, but we'll probably try it again sometime next month. In the end we managed to make $170 that we didn't have before, and we don't have to store our old water cooler in our garage anymore. That alone was worth it! Having to lay ALL of those clothes out in our living room to dry before being boxed up again was a gigantic pain in the butt though!

Meanwhile, back at Gigi and Granddad's house...

The boys were having some FUN in the rain of their own.

Time to wash off all that muddy rainwater in the clawfoot tub!

Now that all of those boxes of garage sale stuff have been cleared out of my bedroom, I've finally set up that sewing corner I've been dreaming about. It still needs a lot of work, but it's a start, and I'm soooo excited to have a space to work!