My street's annual garage sale was last Friday and Saturday. I haven't participated in a couple of years because the timing wasn't right, but I was able to participate this year.
Jerry and our youngest son set the tent up over our driveway when he and his family were here over the 4th of July. Then I got busy sorting and pricing items for the sale.
We began placing tables under the tent at 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning in readiness for the sale. The sale wasn't scheduled to start until 10:00 a.m., but people came much earlier. Our residential street is off a busy main street, so we have good visibility and good traffic.
It was very hot and humid on Friday, and sweat literally rolled down my face while I worked in the garage. True garage salers come regardless of the weather.
It was very hot and humid on Friday, and sweat literally rolled down my face while I worked in the garage. True garage salers come regardless of the weather.
Below is Allura, the little girl across the street who is the same age as our granddaughter, Isabella. Jerry told her she could set up a lemonade stand under one of the wings of our tent. She opted to sell chilled bottles of water instead, along with some of her books. Her waters sold quickly on Friday, and she happily made over $20 - a budding entrepreneur! ;-)
While everyone was hoping for rain [our visibly parched grass attests to the drought], Mother Nature held off during the daytime when the garage sales were in progress, but gave us much needed rain both nights.
I emptied nine storage totes and five large boxes of "stuff" for the sale, but still have more sorting to do in the basement, so there'll probably be another garage sale yet this summer.
Most everything went in this sale, so I was not only pleased with my profits, but the purging as well. Have you had a garage sale this summer?
