Garage Sale Part Two

Whoohoo! The garage sale is over! Altogether, we made about $1000. That includes the profits for the boys, my parents and my neighbors. My portion was about $425 which will be used for something really fun......new garage door openers! Isn't that awful!? Ours are original to our 1975 house and both are broken beyond repair. I will be so happy to have working ones when it's 10 degrees or pouring down rain and I don't have to get out of my van to open or close the doors.
Usually when you have a garage sale, you come away with some good stories about your customers. Some people try to bargain you so much that it is insulting. We really didn't have any of that--probably because our prices were dirt cheap to begin with. I'm pretty sure we sold a whole lot of stuff that will show up on ebay or another garage sale, but that's o.k. Our goal was to clear stuff out. I admit to having major tinges of sadness when all the Little People toys sold. I loved those--probably more than the boys did. I felt like I was getting rid of every vestige of their early childhood. I suppose it's inevitable. Probably the best story is that on Friday, Parker, Jack and my dad set up a lemonade/cookie stand in the front yard. A family came along with a little girl about Parker's age and she was gorgeous. I mean really, really beautiful. She had olive skin and long black wavy hair. She was kind of making eyes at Parker and he took advantage and sold her some lemonade. On Saturday, the family came back. She was looking around for Parker but he was still asleep. We told Parker that she had come back and was looking for him and he blushed three shades of pink. He is wondering if maybe she will go to his school......hmmm.......at least he has good taste.
I'm going to take some pictures of all the things I "bought" from my own garage sale so you can see the "good crap" my sister has. (All weekend, the boys kept saying, "Aunt Tracy has really good crap.")