Selling our stockpile at yard sale
The Commerce Chamber organized a city wide Garage/Yard Sale that called “Treasure of the attics”. Though we have just moved here two weeks ago and have not totally unpack, we decided to participate in it. Unlike most people who would be selling used furniture or used stuffs, I would be selling the stockpile of unused toiletries and groceries from my strategic shopping.
We asked for permission from our landlady, she gave us green light to have a yard sale, not garage sale. So, we setup a tent on the lawn beside the apartment building. We put out a few folding tables borrowed from the in laws and have the “merchandises” displayed with the price tags printed on white papers.
We did really well, we had our first “customer” at 7.30 a.m, before we even officially “open business”. People strolled in non stop and we made a little over $400 on the first day! We also got to meet many of our new neighbors.
On the second day (Saturday), the first customer didn’t show up until 10.30 a.m! I was wondering whether the signs were there, so I drove out to check. The signs were alright, guess most people slept in a little late on Saturday! Anyway, once we started to have people pulled up, it was non stop. There were a few repeated customers from Friday and a couple of big spender. Despite of the initial setback, we actually did pretty well on the second day too!!
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