Garage Sale!

Yesterday was our annual garage sale! I look forward to this every year. Normally it's a nice way to earn a chunk of money but this year with all of our moving back and forth between states, I didn't have near as much stuff to sell. The proceeds from this sale will go towards replacing all the furniture that I sold off last year!

Friday is when the Amish do their yard saling. It's always surprising how many we have stop by. And I always get a chuckle out of some of the things they buy. Last year I had an Amish man buy an electric juicer. And I've had some Amish girls buy some pretty funky shoes from me in the past. They always are the first to take the canning jars (no surprise there) and they also are usually the ones to take used carseats.

I love resale. If I had known that about myself I could have opened a resale shop long ago before everyone and their sister was doing it.

Matthew had his own little stand with some toys, books and movies. He turned out to be quite a salesman! He would call out to the people browsing -- "Do you want to buy anything from this table?" and "Does anyone want this baseball bat?" and (when a child was browsing his wares) "Go ask your mom if you can buy this."

I had to talk to him a couple of times about nagging the shoppers. One lady said that, yes, she wanted a certain widget from his table but she wanted to look around first. He would come up to her and ask if she was ready to pay him yet. Ah, persistence. It will serve him well someday.