Yard Sale

I complain about retails stores on occasion, quite recently in fact.  Taking umbrage from the saying "If you want something done right, do it yourself", Abby and I delved into the exciting world of garage/yard sales.  (Still not sure what to call it, since it was not in our yard nor our garage.  It was more of a driveway sale, but that doesn't have a nice ring to it).  There not a whole lot to running your own garage/yard sale.  We bought some signs, which were too small to get noticed.  We had lots and lots of ones and fives, which we did not need to use since most of the garage sale patrons had small bills anyway.  We bought some stickers for pricing our items, but any thing worth selling was worth haggling over.  All in all, our planning did not seem to make a difference.  What made the difference was having our sale the same day as two other people in our neighborhood.  Lucky for us, we live near the entrance of our neighborhood, so any traffic going to the other sales had to pass by our sale to get there.  (Their signs were more visable and more effective than ours)

Interesting things I learned from our garage sale:

-People are ready for your sale at 7am, whether you are ready or not
-90% of our traffic came before 9am
-Items still in the original packaging scare people away.  (They assume something is wrong with it.)
-Used, smelly sporting equipment can be sold
-Fake flowers and small wicker baskets sell surprisingly well.
-No matter how useless your items are, there's probably someone out there that wants to buy them.