And lonely people and window shoppers and people looking for that special treasure, that's who go to garage sales! I had well over 500 people, and often a quarter or dollar at a time, pulled in over $1,200. I really expected to sell more junk. A full box of nails cost me $50 twenty years ago and I had half full boxes for five bucks and still have them! What surprised me was I sold a lot of metal art!!! I have attempted in the past to get people one by one over to my shop/garden/studio and it just hasn't worked for some reason, but put them in a crowd in a garage sale atmosphere and something weird happens! I sold a lot of it and have some potential clients for the near future!
The selling of the junk was sort of fun. It began the very first night with the theft of a large cabinet! This was a gaming cabinet with ten drawers I made years ago for my kids to keep their games in. It has been in my garage for years, in the way and swelling a bit from being in an unheated space. It took me and my helper and a dolly to get it out and we left it in front of the garage. The next morning it was gone!!! This has never happened to me before! No thefts of any kind, not around here. Apparently my neighbor, a single mother and her sons thought I was going to haul it away to the dump! they struggled with it and got some help from other neighbors and took it home! I awoke to a very apologetic note on my front door! After she got it home some other neighbors said I was about to have a garage sale and she thought it was going to the dump! It was just too heavy to return and what did she owe me? Ha ha, I "sold" it to her for a plate of brownies! and we didn't have to move it again!
I would some kind of junk on a table with maybe $7 dollar price on it and someone would always say, "would I take $4?" some times I would say yes and sometime no and once I said, yes, but only if you take two of them for the four dollars! It was really about getting rid of stuff as it was about the money!
I feel as though I won the lottery, an unexpected windfall. This summer I may go to San Fransisco! I do have a Tom-Tom you might remember! My daughter who lives 3000 miles away in Washington DC is going to California to a wedding of a friend this summer and I may meet her there and have a road trip back to Oregon,
that would be so much fun, a road tip with my daughter!
Oh, and I got a job out of the deal too! I will spend all day today in the shop welding, making a big table for a local restaurant. I am not sure how I will get it off my welding table when finished, it will weigh over 400 pounds! That will be a problem I will deal with when I get it finished!
The selling of the junk was sort of fun. It began the very first night with the theft of a large cabinet! This was a gaming cabinet with ten drawers I made years ago for my kids to keep their games in. It has been in my garage for years, in the way and swelling a bit from being in an unheated space. It took me and my helper and a dolly to get it out and we left it in front of the garage. The next morning it was gone!!! This has never happened to me before! No thefts of any kind, not around here. Apparently my neighbor, a single mother and her sons thought I was going to haul it away to the dump! they struggled with it and got some help from other neighbors and took it home! I awoke to a very apologetic note on my front door! After she got it home some other neighbors said I was about to have a garage sale and she thought it was going to the dump! It was just too heavy to return and what did she owe me? Ha ha, I "sold" it to her for a plate of brownies! and we didn't have to move it again!
I would some kind of junk on a table with maybe $7 dollar price on it and someone would always say, "would I take $4?" some times I would say yes and sometime no and once I said, yes, but only if you take two of them for the four dollars! It was really about getting rid of stuff as it was about the money!
I feel as though I won the lottery, an unexpected windfall. This summer I may go to San Fransisco! I do have a Tom-Tom you might remember! My daughter who lives 3000 miles away in Washington DC is going to California to a wedding of a friend this summer and I may meet her there and have a road trip back to Oregon,
that would be so much fun, a road tip with my daughter!
Oh, and I got a job out of the deal too! I will spend all day today in the shop welding, making a big table for a local restaurant. I am not sure how I will get it off my welding table when finished, it will weigh over 400 pounds! That will be a problem I will deal with when I get it finished!
3 comments:
Well Congratulations J, on your sales your potential jobs, and just having a great day.
You made money while having a good time, talking with people.
It's usually tiring but fun too.
sorry I couldn't make it, maybe next time.. BJ
terrific!!!!
Way to go on the sale! I've been away from internet and phone for 2 full wks up in Washington, so doing some catchin up. Wish i could of come to your sale I've would of found so many treasures I'm sure.
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