I’m ready for the weekend to be OVER. I have had fun, but I’m ready to get back to the books & be done with the garage sale.
I must say, this has been an interesting experience. I have sold more BBW (Bath & Body Works) products than I ever could have imagined at a garage sale & I love it! Roomie & I have taken 6 large Rubbermaid containers FULL of this stuff and have sold 2.5 boxes worth!! Hopefully it will all disappear tomorrow during the rest of the day. We actually have some serious buyers so I’m looking forward to seeing what we get out of all of it in the end.
We’ve also enlisted the help of our AMAZING and WONDERFUL neighbor girl Ann. Both her & her husband are family to us & have included us in a few outings. She has contributed tons of things for the sale as well as her friends too.
This experience has been quite the unique one.
We opened around 7AM, with our first customer around 7:15ish and then they really started flowing in around 8AM. We had a lady who I assume lived somewhere close to us stop by. Upon approaching the garage & me she looked at me and said I think you have dog poop in your yard. Very taken aback, I said “No, I don’t think so”. I KNOW there wouldn’t be any dog poop, I inspect the yard on a DAILY basis, so no – there wasn’t any dog poop. Then I said we’ll it might be Roomie’s popcorn (she burnt it). That lady edged closer to the garage & told Roomie her popcorn smelt horrible! I thought I was going to die. She was very rude to Roomie & her popcorn and she let us know that she didn’t like it one bit. (It’s OUR house and we can do what WE want, so she has no right telling us what to do.) Then she glances at the enormous collection of all the BBW products lined up against the wall and says how did you get all of this. Roomie & I answer “We used to work there.” Then the smarta** lady turns to both of us and says, “So, what did you do, steal it?” I was livid, Roomie was livid & poor Ann was livid. We seriously should have kicked her tail out of the sale, but didn’t. (She spent $1 all the while mocking us and what we had for sale.)
The next thing that happened was the crazy Mexican parade. A car pulled up to the curb & 5 Mexicans hopped out just as fast as they could out of the 5 seater small compact car and bolted for everything cheap in sight. One guy bought beach towels, another a TV, and a bag, and I have no idea what else. We had to hold the TV until the guys got off work (3PM) so they could come pick it up. When they came back to get the TV, well they shopped some more!! I wound up selling both of my fish aquariums (complete WITH FISH & WATER) to one of the guys. Oh & they’re coming back tomorrow to look at baby clothes…this should be fun.
Now, all I have left to take care of is Ellie & our house is looking less cluttered and more like an actual house. We’re working on making it look chicish and doing the “in style” things with it.
Hopefully I will have more to update about tomorrow and the progress that was made.