Hold onto your hat...we're going for a ride!

The garage sale is done. When we were setting up, it was 24 degrees outside. Brr! We sold a lot! I am taking most of the rest to Salvation Army or something like that. I am really happy. Made some cash. I am able to afford some Christmas presents. Yay. My house is still a fright. On the list of things to do tomorrow. One room at a time. I can not believe how much I still have to do. It was really hard to sell some of the things we did. Cappie was sold. I wanted to cry. I told the lady to take really good care of him. Terry fixed his handle bars. He had to scrape out the wood from inside the handles. Wyatt put the shavings in a plastic bag. I will put it in his baby book. Cappie was bought for his 2nd birthday. Wyatt loved that toy. Rode it all the time. Chipped his teeth with him. Glad we have pics. and hope the child that gets him will love him too.

Why do I do this?

Again, keeping really busy. Is there any other way. I am about to fall down though. I have so much to accomplish in the next 2 weeks. Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I am thinking of taking a nap. We are getting ready for another garage sale. Keep you fingers crossed that the weather is nice and lots of people come and haul away all of my garbage. I finally got Terry talked into getting a rid of a lot of his items. Whew! My house is a total nightmare right now but after this weekend, it will be a dream. There won't be much for anyone to make a mess. Yeehaw!

Wyatt has started archery club. I hope he does well. I think I am going to let this become a father/son thing if I can con Terry into it. He doesn't know it yet so don't tell him. Just our little secret. lol

I really need to get a job. Father-in-law will be staying with us for about a month. That should be interesting. No naps for me. Bummer. I should lose weight as he has to follow a healthier diet and I am going to feed it to us all. We'll see. I am sure I can hide cookies somewhere in this house. rofl

Another Day, Another Dollar

Garage sales. Yuck! I promise myself I am never going to have them again. I find myself doing it over and over again. Why? It is the setting up and pricing things that blows chunks! This last weekend, my friend needed to sell some things. Her husband and her blended 2 families together and she needed space in her house. So to help her get motivated to do it, I added my junk to the mix and helped set it up. Luckily, I had most of my things priced from last year when we were going to have a garage sale.

The funny part is, we set up on Halloween. We did not have the sale that day as both of us were busy with children's parties at school. Then taking kiddos trick-or-treating. Most of it was set up during the day. It is November, but we had two of the warmest days to do this. When people stopped by to trick-or-treat, they looked through to mess and bought things. How great is that? Her daughter made cookies and my son sold soda. Both made good money off of the sale. Of course I bought all of the soda so I am out lots of money while he pockets it all. Bugger.

People amaze me at these things. The stuff you think won't sell at all is what flies out the door first. I sold so many toys it was crazy. Not good quality toys. We are talking most of them were McDonalds toys. McDonalds here I come for more toys.