Monday, September 3, 2007

Garage sale, day 2.

Unfortunately, the massive momentum that we built up yesterday came to a crashing halt today. We only cleared $9.80 by 11:15, despite the addition of a CD section and a Health and Beauty section. Therefore, we cleaned up early and called it a day. The remains of our sale are now all boxed up and ready for the Salvation Army.

Anybody want a free couch? It's sitting on the curb right now.

So this is the Vo List of Garage Sale Do's and Don'ts:
1) Sell for 1 day and 1 day only.
2) Price your items to move, except for the books. The books will go quickly anyway, so why not make some cash.
3) Be ready with EVERYTHING out and priced 30 minutes before your sale is scheduled to start, so the hardcore G salers can pick you clean.
4) Don't bargain with women who make comments on how clearly the clothes you're selling were from before you had your baby. You call me fat, you don't get any discounts.

4 comments:

JYates said...

I must say, I learned alot from glaciermom 2 years ago when we had a garage sale. And for the most part, she did everything in your "To Do" list. Except for #1. We had a 2 day sale and made like 50 bucks on day 2, but closed up shop by noon. Day one was much more profitable.

J.Po said...

Someday Spice and I will tell stories of hosting garage sales in of San Francisco. OH - MY - GOD! Some of the shoppers were so rude that we refused to sell to them. Ugh.

J-Vo said...

It's like, dude. You're buying my cast-off crap. Right now, the stuff on the table is 1 step from the Salvation Army, which is where it's going of you don't buy it. So lose the 'tude!!

Anonymous said...

Well said.