The Sale

Location, location, location! Laura's yard is the perfect yardsale venue. She has a high profile address and a choice corner lot. Below is the freakin' chicken incubator. Thank God we unloaded that sucker. Here's how it went down: Sam Geiger and Henry Holm hung around the yardsale later in the morning (after their bowling league.) Geiger and Holm parents participated in the sale and the boys wanted to get in on the fun, I suppose. Sam quickly caught yardsale fever! He announced, "I have ten bucks and I want to haggle!" He fought Cyndi down from $10 to $5 on a golf club bag (void of clubs) and stole Laura's treasured "ch-inkubator" for $5! Nice work, Sam. You might be invited to join us next weekend. You show great promise as a future yardsaler.
Lots of moms brought kids. This spiced up the event. Here is Dominic, my special buddy.
Not pictured is Joshua. He had a challenging day. First, he had to get up before dawn to help set up with his mom. He was not an enthusiastic participant. Then he almost bit the big one when he climbed out the attic window and perched on the third story roof like a gargoyle. Then his mom sold his PlayStation out from under him for a mere 8 bucks. I expect a future full of mysterious aversions to yardsales.

Here, from left to right, we have Samantha, Alicia, SaraLee, and Laura. They are hovering around the space heater for warmth. I think we went through quite a few Thermoses of hot cocoa. Someone made some tasty banana muffins and some banana bread.
I made cookies with the idea of having a bake sale. Below you see JoJo and Addie working the bake sale table. I think they sold three cookies and then we started giving them away. A special shout out goes to Jo and Addie for their excellent signage and their exquisite fashion sense.

Now that our sale is over, my house is streamlined and organized. All the cluttered corners of my basement are bare and tidy. The few things that didn't sell went to Goodwill. You know what this means, right? Time to shop! Let's hope we have a few more yardsale weekends left before the weather forces us to shut down for the season. When the days get too cold we will have to call the blog "Estate Sale Adventures" or "Thrift Shop Adventures" or something. Stay tuned, folks. Tell your friends about our blog and sign up as followers. We only have 4 of them and three are related to me. That's just embarrassing.