Well, we had our last moving sale and sold the car all on the same weekend! I’m glad that we got the car sold, and got what we wanted for it too! It will be hard going back to being a one-car family again, but I’m within walking distance to the grocery store, and as long as I have things planned in advance I can just drive hubby to work and have the car! The only thing with that is hubby gets up really early to go to work-too early for my liking! But, you gotta do what you gotta do!
The moving sale didn’t quite make as much as last time, but I was OK with that-I just wanted it all gone! I priced everything really cheap and basically took whatever people wanted to offer, so it was much easier.
I had a guy laugh at me and call me an ‘old hippie’ because of my musical tastes! LOL!!! I thought that was funny!
Another thing that was funny/shocking happened today after the sale was all done. Hubby and I loaded the last of the junk to take to the local donation centre, and when we returned the rest of the yard was empty! My neighbors had come by and taken all the rest of the stuff. I wouldn’t have cared except that some of the leftover stuff was also for sale online, and some of the stuff had been paid for already! So, I had to go knocking on doors to track down my stuff. Luckily another neighbor was out in their drive with their own sale, so they told me who they saw around. All I cared about was getting the stuff back that had been paid for by/promised to others. What really pissed me off was that one family tried to blame it all on their little girl, who is 7! If Alex came home with a crapload of free stuff, including a high chair-I’d be wanting to find out where it came from, and I’d make her return it until I got the full story! Hubby thinks that they told her to take the stuff and just wanted someone to blame for it. Poor kid, growing up in that house!
I did get a really nice tripod and tripod head from my neighbor’s moving sale-for $25 bucks!
Sharon said
Hi Charlyn
We met at Jane’s a few weeks ago! I realized that you live the same place as one of my dayhome mom’s (well they moved around the corner) and I am dying to know if it was her that blamed her kid for taking stuff from your garage sale!! (it totally sounds like something they would do!)
Did the Mom’s name start with a T and end with an a??? lol
7jays said
I still can’t believe that people would just help themselves to the stuff. Basically that is stealing!! Unless you had a sign saying “take what you want” then how do they have the nerve to take stuff?
People amaze me with what they will do!
mamaranting said
Sharon, it wasn’t her, but I think I know who you mean, and you’re right-it wouldn’t surprise me one bit! Does she have 2 little girls and a pt retail job?
7jays, it is pretty bad isn’t it? All day today things have been showing back up in the yard too, so I think that one family feels guilty-or else they just don’t want to have a confrontation with me!
Sharon said
Yeah!! she’s had a week off work and her kids have been at their dayhomes (little one at mine) every day! ugh!