We have a local realtor that advertises a garage sale every year and this year we decided we would see if we could make a few dollars for the kids. We've never had a garage sale and usually just donate all our clothes to Big Brother but the crawl space was getting a bit over crowed so it was time to see if we could get rid of some items that we knew we were never going to use again. This started by bringing everything up from the crawl space and scattering it around the house. The sale was in mid June which isn't a great time for a teacher and people in school so we started about a month out so we had enough time to organize. Our house was a true disaster the whole time.
The benefit of doing it on this weekend was the free advertising. We figured we would get more traffic. Corey's family decided they wanted to join so we each got one side of the driveway. Unfortunately we did not get a lot of traffic. We had priced everything to sell but there just wasn't enough people coming buy that wanted what we had. We did well with some cleaning tools from Reg and our old lawn chairs but in the end we only made about $150. Luckily we packed everything up and took it to Value village and to our surprise they took everything so at least we reached our goal of clearing out the crawl space. We'll do that again when we move in the next decade.
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