Saturday morning, bright and early, we (actually, Ken) loaded the truck several times with the collection in the photo here and made several trips down to the yard sale site.
We had high hopes of unloading at least ten-years' accumulation of now unwanted stuff.
Years ago, we had two or three successful yard sales at our old house, and bargain hunters lined up by the carloads to delve into boxes before I could even get them unpacked. We made money hand over fist in those golden days.
Such was not the case this weekend.
On Saturday we made a whopping $80 or so.
Sunday: another $50.
Monday: enough to make the grand total $206.
That figures out to something like $3 an hour for our efforts.
We've concluded that nowadays everyone has too much of his own unwanted clutter to bother go buy someone else's. Also, the disastrous economy has to be playing a role here.
Ken and I have divided our "wealth," and I see several skeins of new yarns in my future. He sees a new battery-operated drill.
So that's that. Oh, and at the end of our driveway today are several unsold items with a "Free" sign propped up against them.
Oh my heavens Aunt Jean! Do you still have the white wicker (?) plant stand?? Oh please say yes and consider it sold-to me! I have been hunting high and low for such an item! If I lived near you I would have put some moola into your coffers!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the white wicker plant stand is gone. It went to a good home in Gorham, though, for a mere $2.00. I know, I know, but the plastic "wicker" was coming undone. I hope to have a new one some day. I did enjoy that plant stand.
ReplyDeletelife is interesting and a challenge as we try to unload and make money on our junk! sounds like hard work but at least it helped declutter.
ReplyDeleteI know just how you feel. When we moved to Hawaii, we had a moving/estate sale in Illinois to get rid of a ton of furniture and things. Everything went wrong: too many sales on that day, the city working on the water main in our street so many people couldn't get to our house, economy?, etc. We ended up making very little and then we paid the 25% fee to the sale conductor. Sigh.... Doesn't matter. It's over and done with. At least many people got great bargains from our house sale.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Gorgeous header photo!
ReplyDeleteI think you are right, this is a difficult time for successful yard sales. I will be looking forward to pictures of your yarn creations though.
ReplyDeleteWhat amazes me at our yard sales has been the absolute JUNK that has sold, and the really good stuff that was left behind. Wierd!
ReplyDeleteMy hubby wants to have another one.
sigh... seems like a lousy way to spend a perfectly good week-end.