YARD SALE!!!

The weekend had finally come to host a YARD SALE. We spent the week collecting our extras (even from Granny's garage, if you can believe it!) and posting some pictures on Craigslist.  Scott and Colleen wanted to join in on the fun, so they brought a stash from their garage and even brought some things from their neighbor who had just lost her husband.  It was a lot of work to put it together, and the boys talked me into selling for TWO DAYS...so Friday and Saturday were spent in our breezeway meeting neighbors and sorting through STUFF.

Genesee Yard Sale + Applesauce

Our August farm visit included our favorite things: The citywide Genesee Yard Sale and making a ton of applesauce with G'ma and Papa!

Orange rolls!

Our yard sale treasures recorded:

Root beer floats to celebrate our FIFTY QUARTS of applesauce made in one day.  #pickedwaytoomany #applecoringblisters

Houston, We Have a [Stuffed Animal] Problem!

Kid beds get washed on average every two months around here--whether they need it or not, ha!  The kids were so proud of their new, clean set-ups (this is what happens when they only get clean sheets every-other-month...it's like the "olden" days!) that we had to take pictures.  I am pretty sure we need to put some stuffed animals up for adoption...

YARD SALE!

So, August normally comes and we're at the farm, helping with harvest. This year, the crops are late. Really late. So we're not sure what we're supposed to do in the month of August when we're not at the farm. It was this stir-crazy mental state that I blame for the following decision that was made on a Monday: Let's have a GARAGE SALE on Friday! I had just asked Jeff if he could sweep out the garage--the next thing I know he's placing everything OUTSIDE on our driveway so he can sweep properly. One thing led to another--and BAM!--our August stagnation became productivity!

After three days of, "Do we REALLY need this?" conversations and decisions, we had a good collection of things to purge--all over our driveway.

The day of our sale the Van Sickles came over to shop and then they took Gracie with them to Greenbluff so she wouldn't try to reclaim the stuffed animals that were on the sale table. :) [Actually, she did really well and found some toys that she didn't mind passing along to "kids who didn't have many toys."] She thoroughly enjoyed her day of being spoiled by Matt, Heidi, Kai, and "the girls."

Kai-Guy riding the tricycle. (not for sale) :)

Gracie with the girls.

The men, hard at work.

A few lessons learned from yard-saling:

1. Purging stuff is good. We need to do it more often. We really cling FAR too tightly to THINGS.

2. It's actually nice to get up with the sun. I'd like to say that we've continued this practice after two days of setting up sale tables, but, alas, the mind is willing but the body is SLEEPY!

3. It was so great having bigger items to sell that friends brought over. Big items bring in the shoppers. And if we can help our friends out, then it's worth the effort. :)

4. Homemade cookies only sell if a cute little girl is sitting behind the kid table. Otherwise, Jeff and Ellie eat them all.