by Bree Tyson

Created on: January 06, 2009

Yard Sales ... Yard Sales ... Yard Sales ... Where do I even begin? The time, the labor, the people, the earliness... the everything! Did I mention the time?! Ours started with the great leftover of clothes that were just too ugly to keep or that we had gotten way too big for over the years. There was everything from unnecessary old videos to random den furniture we didn't show off to company anymore. So we decided, why not have a yard sale? We've been to other people's loads of times and it looks like a good idea; maybe even simple. When things got busy at a yard sale, it looks like there's enough money to be made and everything goes smoothly with everyone ending up happy. Right... Yard sales may not look like a lot of work to set up, but trust me; they are! Your wonderful, glorious sleep is interrupted by the early rise before the sun even rises itself! The setting up of putting tables out on the lawn, making sure the clothes and accessories are laid out right, knowing the prices to everything, then writing the prices to everything... It's a nightmare. And a big mistake that I wouldn't let anyone else do, is to have a garage sale in the middle of the blazing sun. Talking about melting into a pool of chocolate! My dark skin didn't help the situation I was in, and I'm a naturally warm person so you can only imagine how I looked to the people passing by. An annoyed, drenched young girl only sitting in front of her house to service people for the money being given in return. Very interesting. The people were the really funny part. Some of them were really picky! They wanted stuff for really cheap, but thank goodness we had our housekeeper help us sell the stuff, or otherwise we would have given our stuff away for 50 cents! That's one thing a person should be careful of. Don't Let Someone Talk You Into Selling Your Stuff For Less Than You Should! There is a limit though, because if I really needed the money and I was selling something for 550 and someone wanted it for 480, I sure would sell it! I know I'm not the only fool. But at the end of all the hard work and annoying passerby, holding that money in your hand is a sweet treat! You're getting paid to give stuff that you were going to throw away! How cool is that? You can either blow it all on a nice Sizzler dinner (like my family and I did) or you can save it and use it wisely for another day... Nope! I think I'd like to blow it all on something nice! Wouldn't you agree?

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