Garage Sales Are Awesome!

Well, we had a garage sale this weekend...our first. We've been saying we were going to have one for a while and set the date for it. I wasn't sure if it was really going to happen or not because Friday was here and the day set for it was Saturday, but we still hadn't tagged anything with prices and almost everything was still in the basement. We stayed up until 1 am bringing everything up, pricing everything and making signs. We really weren't expecting a lot from it....it was supposed to rain all day and our only form of advertisement was our signs and an ad on craigslist. Our goal was to make $100 and we'd be happy. Well, I'm happy and excited to say that we surpassed our goal and made over $300!! The weather was beautiful and everything turned out perfect. We took a big box of stuff to Goodwill last night and a few things to Once Upon a Child and Plato's Closet. We didn't expect to get much from either of those places because the most we ever get when taking something there is a few dollars. Of course we didn't get anything at Plato's, but we got $11 from Once Upon a Child (and they only took 2 outfits and a toy)! So, I just have to say that garage sales are awesome and you really do make money at them! We were tempted just to take everything to goodwill and I'm glad we didn't because I know that we sold things a lot cheaper than what they will there. Now, who wants our left over clothes?