Yard Sale Craziness

So I haven't posted this past week because I have been so busy preparing for the yard sale we had this past weekend.
I told my neighbor and friend that we were planning a yard sale and she decided to join me out there and have one too. She said her huge attic was completely full. Well,we got permission from the guy who owns the two building and tiny church at the end of our road on the main road. He is actually the guy who owns the building that mother's company rents in another city. He's a really nice guy. So anyway, James and I get up at 5am and start moving things to the end of the road. After the 4 hours or more it took to get it all set up I was ready to call it quits! LOL there was just so much to set up and out. I probably had twice the amount of clothes I had last year and that's saying something because last year I had 4 tables worth and this year I only had one huge table and two smaller ones to work with. I really needed more tables! James helped me before work then left. He came back because he asked his boss if they needed him and he was told it was fine for him to come back home.

Well, by the time he got back I still wasn't even close to being done with all the set up. So I told him to set some things out and gave him specific instructions on how to do it. HMMM! He maybe listened to the first sentence and thought he knew what to do. well of course he didn't have I had to fix it and re instruct him about 3 times and finally when I told him to set out the homemade wheat bread I made for the sale I told him there were there 4 loaves that were different from all the rest and to set them on a separate shelf. When I look over at them I see they are all mixed and I tell him a little exasperatedly that he yet again did it wrong. Now the first few times it wasn't so bad because it was just the clothes and it was easily fixed but this time it was bad because I didn't have the different bread marked in any way! So after telling him it wasn't right he got frustrated and stormed off. I had a customer there at that point but thankfully he was over settling up with my neighbor and didn't pay James any attention.

He decided to come back after 30 mins of cool down time at the house. He apologized and we finished all the set up. It was pretty slow at first but after 10am we had a lot of people stopping and also a lot that passed us and turned around to come back. I sold a lot of the bulk stuff the first day and sold a few clothes. I was surprised I didn't sell more clothes because last year I mostly only had clothes and toys. James went back up to the house for a little while when things slowed down and when he came back he told me my mother had called. The people who rent the building the tiny church was in were complaining about us being in front of their building. I was SO mad. I mean I had permission to be there and there weren't even in there on Friday and Saturdays. I was told I didn't have to move Friday but Saturday I had to set up to the right of their building. I could be out there just not in front of their church! The problem was my neighbor was beside us with all her stuff there. That was the biggest drama on Friday.

Saturday we get up at 5:30(because it was all still set up on the tables and I didn't have to do much prep. It turned out to be more prep than I expected but a lot less than the day before. I made sure none of my stuff was in front of their church and was doing good.I was enjoying talking to the customers and helping find anything they asked for. I had several people that were surprised at the low prices I had on thing. For example, I had a toddler bed with a mattress and all for $10. I know that seems low but I didn't need it and I priced everything to go. I needed to get as much clutter out as I could.

At about 11:30 the preacher man for that church shows up and tells me we are going to have to move. They were going to have a service and needed all the parking space there was! ERRRR!!! I called my mother and she called the owner. He told us that if they are not in there we didn't have to go anywhere but if they were having a service we had to move over to where they could park. My problem with this is there was a whole other side of their church to park on. So I moved over just barely and said they can get their cars in and that was good enough. Well he gets mad and has one of the teens move his car right up next to one of my tables as close as he could and still be able to squeeze out of the car door. All the while shouting, "They are going to learn to respect me!!" To top it off they had a total of 7 cars that all but 2 fit right in front of the building and the two that didn't parked on the opposite side from us, which was closer to the door anyhow! So there really was no need for him to be so incredibly rude. I am so baffled at all this because I really think he only called a service because we were out there. The only time I have ever seen anyone at that church on a Saturday was when they had a yard sale! He just really didn't show what I think a christian attitude should be.

Well all in all the yard sale was a success. We made a little over $350 and got a lot of the junk out of my house. Now my daughters' closet will be able to be use for clothes instead of piles and piles of boxes and bags of clothes. I now will be able to catch up on bills (from since James had his surgeries). I didn't sale much bread. I made 9 big loafs and 7 small ones. I sold 3 small ones! I really thought people would love to get fresh homemade whole wheat bread but I guess not. Now we have a lot of bread. LOL I got a little burned in the sun so if I ever have one again I will be getting me a great big floppy hat.