Yard Sale 2014

My mission this summer was to seriously organize and declutter our home, as mentioned in a previous post. In between my various trips to California and Florida, I spent time going through the house, room by room, to see what all we had and what could be trashed or donated. The end result of all my work was a yard sale held this past Saturday and contributed to by Grandma, Granny, and Kelly.

Along the way we sold a few items separately by listing them on Facebook, either on our personal pages or on a "For Sale" group for the Broadway/Timberville area. I quickly sold a bunch of kids DVDs on the group page, and we sold too-small bikes and the play kitchen with food/dishes by listing them on FB where friends expressed their interest and purchased them.

Nevertheless, we still had a LOT of stuff for the yard sale. It ended up being approximately half our stuff and half Grandma's, with a number of things donated by Granny and Kelly as well. We decided not to advertise in the DNR (Harrisonburg newspaper) because it was somewhat costly to do so. Instead we bought a classified ad in the local Broadway paper for much less and advertised via the Facebook "For Sale" groups in this area.

It seemed to work! We had a nice flow of people and managed to sell quite a few things and make a decent amount of money despite having everything priced to move. When the sale was done Charles took a carload of books and movies to the local library for donation and everything else fit in the blue truck to go to Gift & Thrift. Boy, does it feel good to have all that stuff gone and know that my home is tidy and organized! Now to keep it that way...

And to cap off the day, my family graciously allowed me to dictate my restaurant of choice after a week of hard work preparing for the big day. (Though I must acknowledge my mother here, who worked just as hard, if not harder, than me.) Mmmm, delicious Jaliscos Mexican!