They can bring the donuts and hot chocolate and sell their wares in my driveway!
It still amazes me what people will buy. Ah hell, it amazes me what people will sell too. LOL
I couldn't resist telling you some of the highlights of our sale.
*Oh where should I start?
The sale was set to start at 7am
I got up to move the cars and set up shop around 6:15am.<<--I was very cranky.
Why did I have 3 people waiting outside of my house? I said, look, the sale starts at 7am. You know they offered to help bring stuff out right? *sigh*
Here's a few more things that stand out about that day.
*Two SUV's pull up, group of ladies all dressed up waltz up really nice and polite, look around and chums up to my daughter. I guess i have the look of "LEAVE ME ALONE" on my face. After they chummed it up with her, one of the ladies bust out a Watchtower magazine on her. Bwahhhhh!! yes, this is going to be a fun yard sale!
My friends said well, you let the Mormoms in. I said, they are not JW's and that's different, they ask for permission they don't just roll up on you with a tract. There's a difference. And besides, I like them. Humph!
*Another guy comes to buy the Play Station for $20. I tripled blinked at him. Stated the game has 3 games and it's barely been used. $45 and that's final. He tries to discount me down, I said hold on, let me call my husband to make sure I can sell this. I fake call my husband (what? you've never faked called someone before) and told the guy $50 and that's the final offer. Needless to say he pulled out the cash and boned!
*This lady offers $1.00 for a brand new pair of shoes. I told her $3.00 and she said, $2. I said I know you speak fingers (holding up three fingers) please, don't test me woman. She pulls out a STACK of $1.00 bills and peels off three and snatch up the shoes and leaves.
*My neighbor comes out in her tattered robe (i was going to take a photo) to mean mug me for the loud yard sale (5 women and 2 kids) yeah, we were loud. Oh well........
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a photo of her garage. See, if I told you how it looks you wouldn't believe me. Pictures are worth more. And yes, she keeps her lights up year round.
Instead of coming out mean mugging me, how about rolling some of that crap out to the curb or the dump? Humph!
Last but, not least of course....
*Chinese dude passing out fliers for his new restaurant he opened in town*<<--this happened at our last garage sale but, I didn't blog about it, thought I'd throw this one in there especially since I'm still triple blinking at him for advertising at my yard sale.
15 comments:
Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog! Yours is quite interesting. We had a garage sale a couple of years ago, and I don't know if it was worth it. Like you said, people offered a rediculously small amount of money for things. I think it wasn't worth the money I made. Love your neighbor's yard by the way.
Why don't you come over in a couple of weeks and help me sell my crap! If people offer $1 when the tag says $4, I would probably say ok, then go cry in a corner because my stuff was crappier than I thought! :(
LOL! Girl you are crazy! "I know you speak fingers" LOL!
Ooh everytime I try having a yard sale it fails miserably. I wrote a blog about it too in the summer. It's funny tale of what happened to my father at our last one.
It was titled He Sold His Soles.
Stop by some time and check out my yard sale story.
Yours made me laugh. It's really not worth the aggravation in my book. Next time, I am going to take all of my junk and go rent a table at a giant flea market, you make more money there.
Maribeth:):)
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>>>It still amazes me what people will buy<<<
Don't forget you brought it first!!
>>>I know you speak fingers<<<
LOL
Hahaha! funniest thing I've read all day!
Those JW's have no shame! lol.
I think your neighbor needs to call TLC's Clean Sweep. Dang!
My MIL and I had a garage sale a couple of months ago, buit we just had household items, no clothing and shoes. I placed an ad in the newspaper and people were out there at 5 am. There are people that go to garage sales just for fun. I told one lady that I'd rather donate my stuff to Goodwill before I sold it for $1.
I've given up on garage sales. The last one I had, I worked my butt off for a week getting things together, cleaned up, and priced, and I was selling stuff for cheap-made $75.00. Whoop de doo. I'd rather just take it to the nearby Salvation Army store and let them sell it and use the money for helping people.
And your neighbor with the messy garage? Damn! She needs a Clean Sweep!
Gave you an award on Table for Five, please stop by to pick it up :)
This is garage sale madness! Last garage sale I made $60. And, what's wrong with sharing that?!
I found your page through that BlogSphere thing, and you seem like my kinda blogging momma!!
Oooh, interesting fact: Offer to take the JW's literature, if they take yours as well. Then offer them a Book of Mormon (since you mentioned the LDS). They won't touch it, as they believe it's the works of the devil, and they won't come back. That's a promise.
Haha! I was raised LDS, and still am--though not as active as I probably should/could be--and that always came in handy for my parents and myself!
Speaking fingers is the best comment I've heard since BIRTH! LOL too funny.
An idea, next garage sale, ask Danyelle to have her "Lil John" wig easily accessible and when the JW's visit, have her say "WHAT" AND "OKAY" TO EVERYTHING THEY SAY!
I swear, J-Hovshave no shame! A garage sale though? They'd better take that up the street.
Some nerve that woman had to throw down the money and snatch the shoes! Drama at a yard sale, oh my lol. If you still have stuff left try craigslist.
hilarious post!!!
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