Real Time Garage Sale Blogging....

Today's the big day: Garage Sale! Forecast? 60% chance of rain starting at 12pm. Reality? It's already drizzling, so thanks to the Husband (who nicely cleared out the garage last night despite being both tired and sick!) we have moved operations indoors. We had advertised a 10am start time, but it takes a certain kind of person to be a garage saler, so true to form we had three people in parked cars waiting outside of the house by 9:30am. The Husband went outside to put out our "Garage Sale Here!" signs on the front lawn/across the street and as soon as he did that the horde was out of their cars ready to pounce. Of course, pouncing garage salers don't actually mean big sales-- but in the first twenty minutes I made about $40. The cash-to-minute ratio has been going downhill steadily ever since. So far it is 11:44am and we've gotten about $100 (Let's not talk about the $20 it cost to place the ad in the Town Topics or the $20 spent at Office Depot in sign/price tag supplies). I guess the best way to look at it is that people hauled away crap we didn't want anymore and they paid us for it. I guess that's really all you can hope for! For right now we still have some big ticket items left. Namely the infamous Viking cooktop, a Pottery Barn rug and a Baby Einstein jumper. Next question: If it's raining, how long is it likely for me to continue to sit outside and man this thing? Luckily, I do have internet in the garage! (Who knew, half the time it doesn't even work *inside* the house!)