The Sell Of The Century.

And if that title just made your dander come up...thank you! Don't you love it when Utahn's (only because that's where I live and where I see it on a regular basis) call a Sale a Sell. As in..."I am going to have a yard sell." Or..."I will sale you this basket for three dollars." You don't love it? Neither do I. I just thought I'd ask.


So it is now 1 1/2 hours after our yard sell. Hee hee. Yard sale. This is what it looked like at 7 this morning... A neighbor who is moving out today stopped and asked if we'd like to sell his couch. We said sure. Then another neighbor came by on his way to help the first neighbor move stuff. This is what he picked out to buy. Then he left it right where I took a picture of it. He came by about 45 minutes ago and paid for it.

We had quite a few people come by and look. Not many buyers. We sold 5 DVDs, 1 video, 1 basket, a hat, the pot and pan above, the can opener, a receiver and a popcorn popper. These are the bags of stuff going to DI this morning.

We learned a few things today. First, my kids would like to sell their toys for $100 each. Second, mom is cranky at 7 am. Third, neighbors like to look. They sometimes buy. They might just be the most loyal of customers. Fourth, a lot of spanish speakers go yard saling. Fifth, a group of Navajo Indian women raise sheep, shear the sheep, dye the wool, weave the wool into beautiful handmade blankets, take those blankets into town and trade them for the month's groceries, the man who trades for the groceries sells the blankets for astronomical amounts of moolah and then the women go back and do it all again for the next month's groceries. whew! Sixth, 7 am is too early. 8 am is better. Seventh, a cute young newly wed with a very nice neighbor really likes my hutch and is now trying to talk her new hubby into buying it. With $$ help from the neighbor. She's a nice neighbor. Eighth, yard saling is sweaty work. Ninth, a neighborhood young man mooches. Tenth, 3 cans of diet pepper just don't seem to be enough at 11:30 am. Eleventh, some yard salers will put their big ol' posters for their own yard sale right on top of yours. Twelfth, laundry can get done really fast when you start at 7 am. Thirteenth, if you ever do a yard sale, don't call me for help! Fourteenth, you get quite an education when you have a yard sale.

This is another pile of DI stuff...

And this is the last look of the couch. My kids were disappointed that we wouldn't keep it in the basement so they can lay on it while they watch videos on the old TV down there. Bye couch. We'll miss you. We made $22.50. If the moocher paid, we would have made $32.00. Daniel's too nice. If the young newly wed comes for the hutch, we have another $125. Unless she takes the armoire for $5. It really should just be thrown away. But they said she needs furniture and Daniel is trying to be helpful. He's nice like that.