Yard Sale Blues

This is sort of a departure from the "consumer" meme, but oh well.

We tried to have a yard sale this weekend. Stupid Nebraska weather! I took most of the week off from work, and worked like a maniac pulling stuff out of closets, drawers, etc. to sell. Got it all consolidated in our living room/dining room, and spent HOURS putting price stickers on everything. Put an ad on Craigslist, and made signs.

The sale was supposed to be yesterday and today. I got up at 5:30 yesterday morning, had a couple cups of coffee, and went out with signs, staple gun, & packing tape. Put up the signs, came home, hauled everything out to our front yard. Ready to roll at 8:00. It started raining. Not just raining, but windy and cold. Pulled everything up on the porch, then checked weather.com. Supposed to rain all weekend. Shit.

Went out and took down all the signs, then removed the ad from Craigslist. The biggest (size and price) thing we had to sell was bunk beds, so I put up an ad on Craigslist for that. Within a half hour, I had 2 calls about them. First guy that came to look at them bought them. He also looked around on the porch and bought a bunch more of our stuff (and said he'd come back today, but only had $10 with him then).

So, I guess this is a plug for Craigslist. What an amazing thing!! And it's beautiful that as soon as the item sells, you can delete the post & not have to field any more calls.

It's also a good thing that we have all of the stuff that we consciously made the decision about that we don't need consolidated in one place, and can dispose of elsewise. So, even though it cost a few days and didn't make much money, we get to get rid of a whole lot of stuff that we really shouldn't have gotten to begin with. There, I brought it back to consumerism.