Why is it that when you bring stuff out to the garage sale, the toys that they've had no interest in suddenly become the best toys ever? We participated in the community garage sale last weekend, which was EXHAUSTING. Something about being outside all day? Thankfully, Daddy-O a vacation day on Friday to watch the kids. Then my sister came over Saturday to help out. We did fairly well for not having any big ticket items. Everything was priced to sell. We had a lot of clothes and most of them were priced 25 cents to $1. Think we'll probably do a one day sale in September since we have a lot of cold weather clothes. It's hard to buy a big sweatshirt or coat when it's 90+ degrees out.
The dogs chilled / baked outside with us for most of the day. I couldn't believe how well behaved they were, specifically how they stayed in our yard. Eventually they just found a spot to nap, Woody under the table in the garage and Charlie in the shady grass. Look at that big smile! ...as you can also see, he's getting old and gray.
Zanna made a big sign for my Ellie Grace products and we had a table out for it. Didn't sell many, but there were a lot of people interested. Had I had tutus premade - instead of just Nellie's out as samples - I definitely would have sold a few. Next time, right? I just have to find the time to build a tutu inventory. Am working on that. Btw, I've also added clips to my product line. So now there are headbands, clips, leg warmers and tutus.
The kids were fairly happy to hang outside as well. Nellie kept wanting to go crawling around the garage floor and I learned that she has an ability to go from sparkling clean to absolutely filthy in 0.4 seconds. Yeah, that onesie got bleached.
B-Bee had T-ball in the afternoon and again he was tired before he even got there. Daddy-O bought him a soda for lunch to pep him up and he made it through. I know, bad parenting. There must be another T-baller that lives in the neighborhood, because shortly after he got home there was one of his buddies shopping at our sale. We joked that he must have followed B-Bee home. Daddy's been taking him to T-ball every Saturday, it's good daddy time. I guess he's starting to do better and can run the bases like a champ, especially 3rd to home (which was a struggle the first day, this was a struggle the first day because he's so literal and ran to the exit when told to run home). He does like to take a detour path, via the pitcher's mound to first.
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