Two years ago, just after Trent and I got married, we had a major garage sale and unloaded all of our extras or duplicates that we received new as wedding gifts or wanted to buy new. It was a big success and the extra money was the icing on the cake!
This weekend was Ashland’s annual garage sale weekend so Kayla, Naomi and I all put our things together to have another garage sale. Trent and I didn’t have any big items this time, but we definitely had a lot of things we could stand to part with. A two bedroom apartment doesn’t leave a lot of room for extra storage and it is amazing how things accumulate over time. Clothes, picture frames and body lotions and sprays were among some of the items we put on the garage sale market. Our big ticket item was a big bulky t.v. (that sold for $20!)
Our theme for the garage sale was “everything’s a $1.00 unless otherwise marked!” This saved us time since we wouldn’t have to mark every single item…too bad I already had everything marked before I heard about this grand idea. Oh well…
The sale went from Thursday through Saturday and brought in lots of business from near and far. Apparently no garage sale goes off without a little excitement. Thursday was a little rainy. Then all of the sudden there was a downpour with HUGE raindrops and tornado sirens! It was so bizarre because it didn’t even look bad out, but customers wanted to take cover. Within 5 minutes the sirens stop and business resumed as usual.
While we are no pro garage sellers…I would say that overall, the weekend was a success! I was excited to see things I no longer need or use go to good use.
The garage was packed full and overflowed onto the driveway. It was much more organized than it looks here!
Lainey was our biggest helper. She made sure the customers were satisfied and even found a few a lot of items she wanted for herself!
Check out the cash! My final profit came in at $88.30…not a bad price to pay for less junk!
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