So today I am telling everyone I did my first two yard sales I still got to do a couple more sounds like a lot because it is a lot I am selling everything I possibly own haha I love it .
Ok I am going to tell you what I expected what my outcome was and how I did it .
I started out by tagging everything I boxed up everything and put it in categories then I scheduled a day got my permit for two days cost me 5 bucks me and nabor split it because I asked my nabor if they wanted to join so they said yes and we maid a plan a two family yard sale and we worked as a team and made about 20 signs around my naborhood we stapled them to post about a week before the yard sale .We also posted on Craigslist that we were throwing a 2 family yard sale posted some of our nicer items for sale on there so people can see what they maybe looking at and then there is a yard sale app on my iPad I found and that helps pin point all the yard sales in the area to the yard sale experts out there that have that app and that helped so much . After our yard sale advertising we were ready to go and had a day In between to rest before our first yard sale ever . I kept thinking (" no one is going to buy my stuff ? What if people steal my good stuff? What do I charge ? am i only going to be making maybe $75.00 . I do have a lot of stuff though ." ) So many thoughts went threw my mind but bed time came fast and I had to much going threw my Braine , Am I going to be able to sleep ? I asked myself . I fell asleep finally .....
Before I knew it i opened my eyes and it was morning !
Yard sale day I better start it was 6:00 in the morning and if i am going to get it ready for all the early birds I better start now . So I did I grabbed our stuff with my husband big mike and we started putting things in order and put shelves up and tarp on the ground set up the table and it looked pretty good like a out door store in a way . There were a few things I was thinking that was not going to sell like my used fake jewels haha they look tarnished and I wouldn't buy them but who knows one mans trash is another's treasure . I had other items that I thought wasn't good like old books and movies and shoes and purses and old projector and things like that I thought maybe I can sell them but I wasn't going to be making barely any thing on my stuff I thought . Me and my husband had some nice stuff like a glass table , gun safe , some bobs nick nacks , curtains and panels that went with the curtains , a computer monitor and a steamer for your clothes , a digital camera and a dog kennel , a book shelf and a beautiful mantel I thought for sure everyone was going to fight for haha really it was in really good condition . I had expectations to sell my good stuff and barely sell the other stuff who would want that although I wanted them at one point that is why I had them to sell right and that is why I still put them out . My husband had to leave after he helped set me all up he went to work as planed and my niece only 4 yrs younger then me helped with the rest of the stuff and sat with me for this yard sale im glad i am not alone . So here I go my first customer super excited ready to go with my change in my cute leopard print apron haha . So my first customer went for the books and movies she tried to buy my movies for 25 bucks keep in mind I had over 150 movies in there and I was selling them for 1 buck a piece and that was my game plan and same with the books . And when she offered that I said I'm sorry there a dollar a piece you can get 25 movies for that price and so she was actually kinda mean and snapped at me got in her car a drove off , but I wasn't doing anything wrong I thought or am I ? I questioned myself man what am I doing wrong and then among my thoughts another customer (#2)walked up to me and said don't let anyone talk like that to you that is a great deal ! As she was picking up the movies she bought a few and started looking at other things but before I knew it I was running around collecting money for things I thought was not going to sell good "wow I thought ".
I took a minute to look around and I noticed none of my so called nicer things were selling it was all my junk that I was selling haha . My nabor mentioned to me how she thought I had some really nice things and that I was going to make a lot of money . I guess I didn't know what I had till I sold them . I was also selling some soda and my nabor was selling some water that I was there best customer I drank a lot of water while I was doing these transactions .
Before I knew it time flew by and it was 3:30 and I was now able to sit and relax I posted yard sale ended at 3:00 and it went a little past but I was ok with that I was making some money . So it's over my first day is done and I have all my good stuff still ? It doesn't look like I sold any thing haha . I still had a ton of movies even though I think that was my best seller there was a lot left ? So I guess I have to pack things away thank good ness I have help my niece helped me so much I gave her a bunch of stuff for helping . We packed up the stuff in boxes and put it down cellar for tomorrows yard sale . Good thing I got two days I still have all my stuff and I made so much already I counted it I made 200.00 my first day with just junk ? Old jewelry that I thought looked like crap sold well and movies books shoes purses clothes wow I was surprised . All my nicer stuff was still here to sell tomorrow and I still had left over of my crap stuff to sell tomorrow to haha that is how I felt about some of my stuff . Any how that was my first day of the yard sale and i have my second day of the yard sale to talk about but later so for now this blog is to be continued ............
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