Garage sale "BONANZA"

Few things I gained from my first all-American garage sale:

1. Up to $300 in sales of trinkets, clothes and random furniture
   
2. Another pending $140 from the sale of our bed and Cyril desk to a college kid who's picking this stuff up in August
   
3. The VERY important knowledge that early bird shoppers are mad. See here how not to be one of those
   
4. Some muscle build (I'd like to believe) with the lifting and moving of things
5. Knowing that packaging is everything (i.e. pretty signs do a great job attracting folks)
6. A tan on my right arm and right arm only
7. 5 business cards
   
8. Sniffles and a runny nose from sitting out in the cold, Sunday
   

I've been aching to do this since I read the "Yard Sale" article in Real Simple magazine 2 years ago. For those of you who know me, you'll know that what I really wanted was to lay things out and make them look pretty for customers. With new intent to get rid of stuff before the move, there was increased pressure put on the event.

Thanks Trung and Borina for helping out! And thank YOU to whose who stopped by to keep me company. It was all great fun.

Posting signs up the day before


That way!


Borina doing the sign-man twirl


Welcome!


Standing proud with my handmade sign


Trung doing the garage sale dance


Trinkets for sale


Books and appliances and stuff


Trung and clothes


Quiet afternoon with Trung sketching in the shadows. When I started fidgeting, he very kindly asked, "Are you ok? Do you want me to entertain you?"


Hence the modeling of clothes. Lol. Thanks Trung. You really are the best!


Where am I?


Drinking beer like a hill billy to kill time

A few Singaporean tourists stopped by and admitted that the chances of them seeing a garage sale in Singapore are slim. For that brief moment, I felt a wave of sadness thinking of the things I'd be missing upon the move.