Oh.
It was a good day.
There were sales aplenty. The proprietors were enthusiastic. And so were we.
Laura was out of the driveway before Jo and I made it down the block this morning. We rushed over to Country Club where Samantha was ready and waiting.
First stop: 81st street.
They were still setting up so we were the first salers to see this excellent black trunk, this sign, and these green pots. Big score for me:
Lickety-split, we were on to the next sale where we found this gorgeous stained glass window:
I paid the asking price of 50 dollars because I thought it was fair. I think I'll hang it on my porch -- or maybe sell it for double what I paid!
We found a yardsale with a collection of Playboy merchandise: shower curtain, lamp shades, and whatnot. It was a real treat.
The next sale offered the actual magazines. Take the whole box off her hands for $5! They belong to her 28 year old son. She checked the dates to make sure he had bought them legally. They were only from 2008. It was all legal porn-viewing and article-reading. I had the pleasure of explaining the "Playboy" concept to my 8 year old daughter.
Not wanting to make the ladies feel left out, here is a life-size model of Zac Ephron:
Ten bucks was too pricey for me, although I desperately wanted to take him home. Seriously. Don't we look sort of cute together? Suck it, Vanessa!
We found this curious and compelling collection of wooden totems. I bought only one but feel as if I missed some sort of cosmic opportunity -- surely all of these icons have magical properties!?
Then, as you can see, we found a tribute sale... a tribute to the Little People of this great country!
If we all had Midget Pride the world would be a better place!
We were an efficient shopping machine today. We ate when we needed to eat, peed when we needed to pee, bought what we needed to buy. We have yardsaling down to a science!
The lingering question:
How do we turn yardsaling and the yardsalingadventures blog into a money making endeavor?
Tune in next week!
Nancy,
ReplyDeleteA suggestion for making $$ with your blog. Start recording your purchases and have a couple of your own "YardSales" In a couple years you will be an "expert" on selling and buying at yardsales. Then, summarize your blog experience into a book. Not that too many people who actually have yard sales read books, but you never know. Maybe interviewing those who are sponsoring the sales and asking them what were their major problems putting on the big show. What issues did they have displaying, pricing, mentally dislodging themselves from their priceless junk. Probably already a few books out there on yardsales but, how many are from a bloggers perspective?
Just a thought. Enjoyed your blog.
Here is another idea to make $$ on your blog. Since you go around advertising your blog anyway, why not make your blog "the hot spot" for yardsales. One thing that is missing in the "yardsale" schema is the inexpensive way to list all your goodies in an advertisement.
ReplyDeleteCreate a new blog. Metroeastyardsales. Weekly post all the yard sales that come up in the newspaper. Then those people that have that sale can list in detail all the items they are selling without paying the BND booko bucks.
Kinda like a craigslist for yardsales in our area. Lots of work, probably not much income.
Or you can just post pictures of yourself nude and most men would pay big bucks for it. :) That would be much less labor intensive and you could make lots more money doing it.