Yard Sale

Highlights:

6 yr old sold out of country time lemonaid. No doubt a future sales/marketing genius.

Sold Aiwa surround sound speakers for $10. The lady was having trouble picking them up because she tried to grab them all at once, so I went over to help her telling her that I would get the bottom half if she got the top ones. She made some comment that made it sound like it was important to pick them all up at once, so I did. 2 seconds later they all hit the concrete hard enough that the front grill parts broke off. Nobody said anything and I loaded them up in her car. She already paid.

We sold a kids all in one minature pool/pingpong/air hockey table that was missing most of the pieces. $7 sticker price. Some Latinos wanted to bargain so I told them we would take $5. I overhear the 10 year old in the background... "Dad, we only paid $4 for that at the yard sale we bought it from" I didn't know this of course, but, Thanks.

A lady that comes to every yard sale anyone every has shows up and picks up and evaluates every item we have. Finally she finds something that shows 50 cents. She starts bargaining for 25cents and comments that she doesn't want to spend that much money today. PLEASE!!!! we should be charging you rent for taking up space at this point, you've been here for an hour, beat it.

Finally, I'm reminded of a classic yard sale tale. 5 years ago, the wife and mother in law leave me unattended to man the sale, so they can go buy more stuff at another sale, which will eventually end up in another one of our future sales. It's late in the day and I'm looking at all this crap that I will have to haul off somewhere after this is over and I decide it's time for a "fire sale". They have about 50 pairs of old shoes lined up like it's Payless or something, and the traffic is thick with mostly women, which I think would appreciate a deal. I announce in a megaphone volulme, "Everything must go!, buy any item, pick out one pair of shoes for FREE!"

Business was booming, it was unreal. I highly recommend it. The family gets back and my mom in law says "oh my Harley boots sold!, that's great!, did you have to come off the $50 I had on them" Now, first, I don't know why she would have bought them in the first place, and second, who puts a $50 pair of shoes in a yard sale. Yeah, it was bad for a couple of days, but always provides me with a good laugh looking back on it, as a matter of fact I'm going to say LOL.