July 15 & 16: Yard Sale

Oh Marion, you never cease to amaze me. Spending two days interacting with Marion's finest is not exactly my idea of a great way to spend some time off work. But, I needed to sell some stuff before I move. First of all, renting a truck to drive all the way to D.C. is really expensive. Also, I have a lot of stuff I probably don't need to take with me. And if I can make some money at the same time than that's even better.

I did not realize having a yard sale was such hard work. I spent Tuesday, Thursday, and most of Wednesday bringing stuff to my parent's house. Not to mention, for a few weeks beforehand I'd been stockpiling stuff from my apartment. I found a really helpful website with a lot of tips and advice.

Friday morning we got ready to set stuff up at 7 am since our signs said that we'd open at 8 am. But by 7:15 we already two cars parked in our driveway. They wasted no time in barging into the garage and trying to buy things that weren't even for sale. You can imagine my anger with people who have no reading comprehension skills. I guess my advice would be to make sure you have everything ready to go the night before. Also, I would get things set up well in advance of the start of your start time.

Some interesting visitors:

• The Amazing Racist - A friendly man who started out as not that crazy but ended up telling us a bunch of racist things that I was afraid would scare off other customers. 
• A tough guy (with long hair, piercings on the bridge of his nose, and lots of tattoos) who looked for about 5 minutes at my old prom dresses and nothing else. 
• Some little boy who mumbled non-stop while walking in circles around our garage the entire time his dad browsed our sale. 

All in all, I think the yard sale was a success. I made twice as much money as I had hoped for, which is always nice. Thankfully though, the stress of the yard sale is over and I can move on to the next task.