Yard Sale!

A few weeks ago, Joseph and I were all set to start packing up our house during the middle two weeks of June, go to a wedding the first week of July, and then pretty much immediately move out of our apartment on July 9.  You can read all about what happened with those best laid plans here.  However, despite being able to put off packing up the apartment, going through needless things that haven't been used, much less looked at in over a year (or more), I was still in the mindset that I needed to go-go-go and pack-pack-pack and sort-sort-sort... which for me means, STRESS-STRESS-STRESS!  Sooooooo I went through our little storage area and found loads of things that we could get rid of, but I didn't just want to give it away.  Plus, we still hadn't put our old TV up on craigslist from months ago...

And then I had a brilliant idea:

YARD SALE!

Now the question was, where to have it?  You see, we live in a 15 story apartment building and I am sure The Beach Company would not have approved of us selling stuff on the front lawn of Broad Street.  And then, really, who on Broad Street (one of the nicest areas in CHS) would go to a yard sale?  OK, who did I know who had a house, with a lawn, and lived in an area that had a yard sale-going demographic?

And then it hit me:

BECCA!

Such a lovely, wonderful friend, she said yes when we asked if we could have a yard sale at her house-- and it even worked out well for her, because she and her husband had stuff to sell as well.  So she bought little sticker price tags and made signs, Joseph put an ad on craigslist, and I drove over to Becca's with Dunkin Donuts coffee and, yep, you guessed it: donuts.  Oh, and I brought all our stuff.

We set up shop at about 7:00 a.m. and by 10:45 a.m. everyone who was going to come by came by.  We were very successful, by yard sale standards, and raked in a combined total of $60.  It's always exciting and a little scary to try something new, especially when you're hoping to make money doing it.  I believe we pulled off this yard sale with aplomb and it was SO much fun!