My Very First Yard Sale

Hot. Exhausting. Hot. Busy. Hot. Lots of Work. Hot. Humid. MONEY!!

I decided to be brave and have a yard sale. I'd never done one before. Kelsey had tons of experience, so she offered to help out and brought over a bunch of her junk, so we got to advertise as a 'multi family'. Her hubby, Joe was kind enough to hang out inside with Hayden and Michael, watching Little Einsteins and Nemo. Then he saved the day by buying us some Wendy's! Big giant, juicy cheeseburger. giant Fries. Giant Dr. Pepper... or was it Coke? I don't know... All I remember is that it was cold, big, yummy and CAFFEINE... lots and lots of caffeine... I was in heaven! During lunch we took some pictures of us. We managed to capture the best picture of me you'll ever see. I'll put it at the bottom of this dreadfully long post.

For the last 5 months or more, I've been scouring my house for unused items. I had to mentally prepare myself that it IS okay to get rid of things, especially if you don't use them. Cleaning out my closet was especially hard. I have a BIG closet, FULL of clothes... but I don't wear most of them. Some of those clothes have been traveling with me and sitting in my closets since JUNIOR HIGH!! After I went through a self therapy session and made myself go through every item in my closet, it was still full. A couple months later I did it again and got twice as much junk. I still feel guilty, even as I'm writing this. Getting rid of clothes in perfectly good condition?? Some of them even still fit me! Some of them might possibly hopefully fit me some day. How could I be so greedy and get rid of good clothes when others have so little?? A-HA! I'll just advertise all over the ghetto areas... oh wait... that's where I live.... and make sure those well deserved, needing people come and get my clothes for cheap. Then I'm doing CHARITY, right?!

I was really REALLY nervous! I was as nervous as the night before a big test in college. All I really wanted to do was get rid of my old entertainment center which was taking up a quarter of my garage. Woohoo!! I sold it within the first hour!! Thank goodness I don't have to deal with that anymore.

The sale went great. Friday I spent my entire day in a 100+ degree garage preparing. We stayed up late pricing. I set my alarm on my phone for early... early enough to get mostly set up before Kelsey even came over. I woke up to Kelsey calling me. "WHERE ARE YOU??"" ...........ummm..... crap? Apparently I still haven't figured out how to use my cell phone alarm, because it started going off half way into the sale, around 9 am. (Isn't it sad that I need an alarm to wake up by 9am?) We had 30 minutes to pull out a mountain of junk out of my garage, set up tables, eat breakfast, brush teeth ... oh wait... gum was faster.... yeah... you get the point. I was stressed, worried, hot, and TIRED! It was already 135,756 degrees outside at 7am... By 7:30 I had to go change my top because I was drenched. DRENCHED! I don't sweat, normally!! It was gross. Truly gross.

The rest of the day went great. It was HOT! Why oh why did we have the sale so late into the summer? Oh wait. It's not summer yet! It's still hot. And humid. And sticky. Gross. But I made money! And I got rid of a TON of stuff!! Friday morning I couldn't even walk through my garage. Now it looks barren and HUGE!

And the grand total..... $500 something something... but MY GRAND TOTAL...... $460!! Four hundred and sixty DOLLARS! Just for working my butt off, sweating off a few pounds, and cleaning out my garage. Lovely. It was way more than I expected. I'm excited. Now.... whatever should I do with the money??.....

This is the tiny pile of junk I didn't sell. Quite a huge difference, considering I couldn't even walk through my garage before the sale.

Didn't I promise you the best picture of me, ever? I think me, being in this picture, makes Kelsey look about 100 times hotter than she already was.

I think we were a bit loopy from all the sun and Wendy's.