Garage Sale
I bought a glass of lousy lemonade for fifty cents, so I figure it was justified.
We had our third annual garage sale last weekend, with the intent of cleaning out the garage of all the extraneous crap we have accumulated. There was no unifying theme to to merchandise; a bucket of door knobs lay next to a womans leather purse, a broken TV next to a tropical print chair, several pounds of ground coffee, a stack of 45's and 78's, a mini-fridge, and video cassettes that detail the argument for creation over evolution in 7 parts. There was all that and so much more. When the neighbor girl with the aformentioned lemonade stand came see what she could buy, we loaded her and her sister up with Silly String, two hats, a jewlery box, chinese finger trap, that tropical print chair, a cd player, marbles, and probably alot more. All for about 3 dollars total. It was the free halloween pencils that suckered 'em in, after that they kept coming back, first to spray Nic, myself, and the dog with Silly String, then to 'buy' more of our crap. At one point I heard their mom yell across the street to stop buying stuff. I was afraid to peer around the tree in the yard for fear of catching a mom death glare. We considered playing a joke on her and giving the two girls the big broken tv to carry home for maybe a nickel. But I thought that might be crossing the line and then we might have to take back all the stuff we had gotten rid of. In the end I gave the TV to a 7 year old boy to take apart. He and his mom were going to buy the toaster to take apart, when I heard that I convinced them that a TV is much cooler and gave it away for free.
The rest of the sale went fine, we drank beer in the garage and let the crowds come and rirle through our stuff and when it came about 11am, we put up the free sigh, closed the garage door, and went inside. Not much was left that afternoon.
We had our third annual garage sale last weekend, with the intent of cleaning out the garage of all the extraneous crap we have accumulated. There was no unifying theme to to merchandise; a bucket of door knobs lay next to a womans leather purse, a broken TV next to a tropical print chair, several pounds of ground coffee, a stack of 45's and 78's, a mini-fridge, and video cassettes that detail the argument for creation over evolution in 7 parts. There was all that and so much more. When the neighbor girl with the aformentioned lemonade stand came see what she could buy, we loaded her and her sister up with Silly String, two hats, a jewlery box, chinese finger trap, that tropical print chair, a cd player, marbles, and probably alot more. All for about 3 dollars total. It was the free halloween pencils that suckered 'em in, after that they kept coming back, first to spray Nic, myself, and the dog with Silly String, then to 'buy' more of our crap. At one point I heard their mom yell across the street to stop buying stuff. I was afraid to peer around the tree in the yard for fear of catching a mom death glare. We considered playing a joke on her and giving the two girls the big broken tv to carry home for maybe a nickel. But I thought that might be crossing the line and then we might have to take back all the stuff we had gotten rid of. In the end I gave the TV to a 7 year old boy to take apart. He and his mom were going to buy the toaster to take apart, when I heard that I convinced them that a TV is much cooler and gave it away for free.
The rest of the sale went fine, we drank beer in the garage and let the crowds come and rirle through our stuff and when it came about 11am, we put up the free sigh, closed the garage door, and went inside. Not much was left that afternoon.
posted by Jared | 3:19 PM
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