Team Schween: Garage Sale

Last weekend we had our first garage sale! I felt like I had "arrived" in adulthood, as that is surely a right of passage of some sort...

When we moved from Seattle we only had about two weeks notice, so we basically packed up everything we owned without taking time to go through any of it, and moved everything to Colorado. One of the many blessings of the house we live in now is that we have an unfinished basement for storage! It is wonderful to keep camping gear, baby items, off-season clothes, etc. However, there were quite a few boxes down there which were never unpacked after the move, and we weren't REALLY sure what was in them. We decided that having a garage sale would be the perfect excuse to make us clean out the basement, get rid of some stuff, and make a little bit of money at the same time. The plan worked beautifully as we sorted through ALL of our boxes, deciding what was worth keeping, and what wasn't (if we hadn't used it in the last year, we obviously didn't need it, no matter how "nice" or "great" it is!).

Friday mornings are the best traffic for garage sales, apparently, so I decided since I was by myself with the kids I would just do it from 8 - 11 am on Friday, and then we would do all day on Saturday if we had enough stuff left. Turned out that we sold MOST of our stuff on Friday morning - we definitely experienced the 8:00-serious-garage salers-rush!" I couldn't believe how many people stopped by that morning. That worked out well so we only did the sale until nap time on Saturday...and we made $200, selling who-knows-what!!! Needless to say we were quite happy with ourselves. I was able to use some of that money to shop at a HUGE community garage sale this weekend to stock up on some clothes and things for the kids - perfect! It was actually a pretty fun family day on Saturday as well all hung out in the garage, played on the lawn, Tyson charmed all of the people who stopped by, and we moved high chairs outside to eat lunch :)

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Father and daughter...drinking Starbucks and reading the Saturday morning paper as we started day 2 of our sale.

Tyson had price stickers all over him and thought that was the best part of the whole day. Every time someone asked him how much he "cost," he said: "I'm expensive." (And I said, "He might be half price by nap time" ;-)