Yard Sale update

Kenyon and I hosted our first yard sale. I had to take a day off work and wake up before the sun in order to get everything ready. Though we advertised our sale to begin at 8am, our first customer arrived at 6:30am. We had just barely begun to pull stuff out of the house, but he looked over every item as we dragged it out and left with a few things in hand. He was the newspaper man, so we cut him a break.

Shortly after he left a caravan of trucks pulled up (this was just after 7am). I still hadn't finished pulling everything on to the yard, but that didn't seem to matter. These obviously experienced yard salers came, saw and left. This is what our yard looked like at their exit, I still hadn't finished pulling everything out of the house and on to the yard.

We had a steady flow of traffic during the published hours of the event. At the end of the day we had sold a lot, but a lot still remains. Goodwill or friends will be the beneficiaries of our remaining items.

Some highlights of the day...I learned that people can be incredibly generous. When we told them why we were selling our stuff, they didn't haggle with us. For the most part, they just paid what we were asking. One of our neighbors came over to just give us some money. One woman bought some stuff, left, then came back and gave us a check as a gift for our move. There is good in humanity! Also, I had to publish my number in the paper to place the add. I received some calls asking for directions (which is always important in this mountain community), but I also received a prank phone call. I don't think I've received a prank phone call in fifteen years! It made me laugh, which provided some much needed comic relief during this stressful time.

Have you ever held a yard sale? What was your experience? When you go to yard sales, are you looking for something in particular?