This past weekend we put on our first ever garage sale.
In getting ready for the baby, it has become quite apparent that we just have too much stuff! So I figured instead of packing it all up and taking it to the Goodwill we might as well try to make some money off it that we could put toward the nursery. Most of what we had wasn't worth much and we didn't have a whole lot of furniture or other big ticket items so I was expecting to make only a minimal amount but though that it would be fun regardless. We are both new to putting on garage sales but Frankie is pretty new to the concept of garage sales and at one point suggested we hand out free water and soda to people when they came....ahhhh my husband, so polite but obviously missing the point that our objective was to make money not spend it!
We opened up around 9:30am and immediately the crowds starting coming. The clothes became a instant hit, much to my surprise, that was the one thing I was sure wasn't going to make us any money. We even got visits from my mom and our friend Meghan, both of who helped contribute towards our profit by buying a few things. By 3:30 the traffic had started to really slow down and we were quickly running out of things so we decided to call it a day. Our grand total $220! That is in addition to the $90 cash I had made the week prior selling some things on our work classifieds. We decided to not have the garage sale on Sunday since there wasn't much left and went to IKEA to spend our earnings on a changing table and bookshelf for the nursery, and also some new pillows for the couch and a coat rack for the entry way.....and we still have leftover $ to go to the next baby necessity.
Quite the productive weekend.
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