Now I Remember Why I Don't Like Holding Yard Sales

Hello again - this is Scott - Heather's husband and yard sale co-conspirator. As we continue on our journey to "live on 10% and give away 90%", we still are amazed at what we will hang on to because "we might need it one day." All day Friday we kept opening boxes in the garage and asking each other "Did you want to keep this, or was it me?" We had to borrow six large tables from our church just to hold the stuff. We opened cabinets in the basement and discovered more junk that the kids had stashed away in their younger days (chips off the old blocks).

So yesterday was the big day. I had hardly slept that night because I was worried that someone would come and steal all the stuff we had staged at the end of our driveway! So there we were, tired already, and the day was just beginning. We had the "7 o'clockers", those folks that also stand outside Wal Mart 5 hours before it opens on the day after Thanksgiving hoping to get the best deals. Then we had the "1 o'clockers" who wait until you pull down the signs and scramble in for what's left.

After six hours of this, we were only too glad to start packing up. We sold a lot of the big stuff, furniture, bikes, weed whackers, Christmas nutcrackers etc. A lot of the smaller stuff still remained. I thought my awesome collection of VHS tapes would go like a wildfire. Alas, no one seems to own a VHS player anymore. Maybe I should hold off on buying anymore DVD's. They will likely be replaced by another format soon.

Bottom Line: $700 in our pockets and 2 truckloads to a local charity store. Oh, and a lot more open space! I told Heather that the next time I start drooling over the newest workout machine that promises to make my chest bigger and butt smaller in 15 minutes, that she has my permission to waterboard me!!!!!!

"Live to Give"