Garage Sale = $$$

After going through and deciding what to pack and what to ditch, we decided to have a garage sale to rid ourselves of the items we were ditching and see if we couldn't make some extra make some extra $$$. Being that Brian and I have never had a garage sale, nor do we really go to garage sales, we weren't really sure how well we would do, or if it would be worth the effort. Not to mention, we didn't feel like we had enough stuff to warrant having a garage sale and last but not least we weren't sure if we were ready to brave the HOT Texas heat! Regardless, we combined our stuff with Brian's parents and had a 2 family garage sale at our house. The garage sale was planned for Saturday and Sunday 10AM-2PM. We woke up early on Saturday morning and started placing the garage sale signs up and thought we would grab some breakfast before the sale and finish getting things priced. Well, who knew that as we started placing the signs signs closer to our house (that no one even bothered to read, they just follow the arrows) people would start tailing us and rolling down their windows and asking "where is the sale?". I responded "it doesn't start until 10AM". Needless to say, we didn't get to grab breakfast. The garage sale that was supposed to start at 10AM actually started at at 9AM. People were sitting in front of our house when we arrived home, the second we opened the garage door people were jumping out of their car ready to sift through our "seconds". We were very pleased with the turn out of the garage sale. We ended up starting an hour early, closing down an hour early and didn't even have the garage sale on Sunday, which was good, because I am not sure I could have handled another afternoon in the hot, muggy garage! We made over $900....can you believe it?! Well, we did have some furniture that we sold, so that helped with the profit, but I never imagined doing that well at a garage sale that I didn't think we had much stuff to sell. Now I am asking myself "why didn't we have a garage sale when we moved from Oregon?!". I am pleased with our success and even more thrilled to have all of that stuff off our hands for the move.