If you've been following my blog, on Day 15, I mentioned a garage sale that wasn't going to take place. Well, to my surprise, it took place today!
So, we've been hanging out in the yard today. It was kind of fun. We put the stuff out at 9 in the morning, and left it out until about 6pm. The stuff we were selling was somewhat decent, but we gave half of it away with a purchase. Around 10am, we put out some Starbucks coffee and cookies for the customers. It was a top notch yard sale, if I may add. We greeted all the customers and, even, drove one of them home with her purchases. We had stuff from Escalade tires to a George Foreman Grill.
All in all, it was a pretty decent turn out, considering the fact that a competition yard sale, a couple of blocks away, had (literally) turned our signs upside down, pointing the arrows the wrong way, and taped their address on top of our signs. I thought that was pretty cruel, but it didn't ruin the fun of the event. We had an ipod player outside with music playing, and I had an old Dance Dance Revolution mat that we started to fool around with. We played human DDR for about an hour, which attracted most of the attention on the block.
Hooray to the yard sale that actually took place... and made us $390 in the end.
Tip of the Day: If you've been wanting to do something and have been putting if off, schedule the day it will happen. Give yourself a deadline and do it! The turn out might be better than you expected.
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all." Rita Mae Brown
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