garage sale!

Our three family garage sale was a great success!  We woke up at 6am, had our stuff out on the driveway by 7am, and we were super busy from 7am-8am.  Man, those garage sale shoppers are serious.  They roll up in their pick-up trucks, their fanny packs on, and they are ready to wheel and deal!  We made over $300 between all of us.  What didn't sell at the end of the day was taken over to Goodwill. 

These pictures were taken during the lull between the early morning crowd and the late morning crowd.  A lot of the big stuff was already gone by this point.

The morning did not lack for entertainment from the children.  Emilia begged me to turn on some music so they could dance.  The girls twirled and spun to some of frank sinatra's greatest hits. 

Another benefit of hosting a garage sale is meeting neighbors.  We got to meet our new neighbors across the street who just moved in a couple weeks ago.  They bought our coffee table.  I have been meaning to bake something and take it over to introduce ourselves!  Gosh, I really need to do that.  We also got to pet some neighbor-doggies. 

I am really looking forward to our next garage sale.  I've already been looking around the house to see what we can do without.  I love to purge.  No one will ever accuse me of being a hoarder or pack-rat.  If I don't use it or wear it on a regular basis, it's gone.  However, I have other plans for now.  Our next major project is cleaning our garage!  Now that we have cleared it out a bit, it's time to get organized.  I will be posting about this project too, so stay tuned!