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This Is Page 34 From The Smiles '06-'07 Album

Journaling:

Wanna Go To A Garage Sale?

Where can you go and buy fifty things for $1 or less? If you said The Dollar Store you would be right, but I was going for a slightly different answer. I was thinking your good old neighborhood garage sale! Socks, nails, magazines, tires, books, dolls, pictures...almost anything you can think of can be bought at a garage sale. It’s basically a way for people to get rid of everything they don’t want or need around their house anymore and make a few dollars in the process. After Andrea and I had been in our new home for about a week we realized how much extra stuff we really had so we decided to embark on our first garage sale project together. Now a good garage sale takes more planning then you might think. Yeah, you can pile things on a table in your driveway and pray someone stops, but would that truly rank as a sale? To reach true garage sale status you must A) advertise, B) organize, C) display, and D) sell! Our advertising campaign hit Joplin in two ways. First we put an ad in the newspaper to attract all the regular garage sale shoppers attention and then we placed posters around our entire neighborhood to bring in as many of our neighbors as possible. Next came the organization phase. This is where you place items that are alike in the same area and decide on prices. Placing items together allows more of them to be sold at one time since shoppers don’t have to look everywhere... it’s all right in front of them! Pricing is usually easy... you don’t want this stuff anymore, right? The lower the price means the faster it will leave your garage, so mark them down! Phase three, display, is where you actually arrange things on tables or hangers or boxes with their price tags showing and turn your garage into the shopping bonanza that you want the world to see. And last but not least, you open that garage door and sell! As you can see by the pictures we had a pretty nice shopping experience for people, and our own experience was so much fun! Our garage sale lasted 3 days, and during that time we were usually busy from about 9am to 5pm, a lot like a normal business might be. Andrea and I were amazed at how much stuff we actually did manage to get rid of. All told we made about $600 (see, even low prices add up after 3 days of selling!) which we used to buy some things our new home actually needed. We also got to meet most of our neighbors and enjoyed seeing all the different people who came out to the sale. For me it was a great experience putting a plan into action with Andrea and just seeing how it all worked out so well. Plus, how else would I have ever gotten rid of so many old movies on VHS?! ☺


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