Our garage sale last weekend went pretty well! We had a lot of people donate items, so I was at my friend's house the Friday night before helping sort and prepare items. Then I arrived at 7 am on Sunday morning and we had MORE preparation to do-as we were dragging things out. We were pretty shorthanded so it was just three of us working for quite awhile (then my friend Nicole's WONDERFUL neighbor Christy came by and was a major lifesaver for helping us put stuff out).
As we were setting things up, it started to lightly rain. It's Washington, so we weren't TOO overly worried, and then it started to rain harder, and stuff was getting pretty wet so we started to attempt to drag some things inside the garage. (Thank goodness Nicole has a 3 car garage!) People were still dropping by and then it started POURING and it was raining pretty hard for the rest of the day. But one of Nicole's neighbors helped tarp some of the items, others helped drag items inside, and another brought over a pop up canopy for us to set up outside. Then the neighbor that let us borrow the canopy proceeded to bring items over to donate and even bought stuff herself! What a blessing Nicole's neighbors are! We had the clothes laid out in Nicole's living room, and luckily that went well for the most part (and gave us a chance to dry out clothes in the dryer).
And even with the crazy rain and half the stuff being soaked, we still had pretty steady crowds all day and did very well! We got a new load of donations on Saturday night and that really helped us out on Sunday (which was a lot slower than Saturday). We have plenty of stuff left so we are doing it again on Saturday and then again in 2 weeks as Nicole's neighborhood has their neighborhood garage sale that weekend. We hope to maybe get a few more donated items and we want to get rid of everything we have! We are splitting all proceeds between 3 families that are all donating sibling groups from U.
It was SUCH a crazy weekend and unfortunately I took zero pictures of the crazy Saturday. :-( I promise to take pictures this weekend though!
Thank you to all that helped make such a difference this weekend!
We are doing a garage sale fundraiser as well! It's been pretty successful. People love donating. (most of the items are things they would have gone to goodwill anyway) We were just going to do it one weekend, but it has been a easy way to hang around (since we can't afford to go anywhere anyway!) and make money!
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