Burgess Family Yard Sale 2010

Last Saturday, we had our yard sale for this year.  We had a grill, a broken Xbox 360, and a bunch of kid riding toys to sell, and then everything else…

The kids of course were excited.  Anything that’s out of the ordinary like that makes their day.

I started off the day getting McDonald’s for me and the kids.  Missi only wanted a coffee drink.  Apparently, we’ve trained our kids well.  As they ate, they got really disgusted with the food they were eating.  Most of that food went to waste.

We gave the kids a way to make money by selling baked cookies (Nestle) and Milo’s sweet tea: one 5 oz. cup of tea for 25 cents or a plastic baggy with 2 cookies for 25 cents.

Arwen is our persistent sales girl.  As soon as people could get out of their cars, she was asking them if they wanted cookies or sweet tea.  It was a good time to teach her how to get someone’s attention, ask them one time, and then wait for a response.

She didn’t get disappointed if people turned her down, but she did get upset once when a lady said she’d by something (just to shut her up I think), and then didn’t.

Charis managed to dig out an old Eeyore doll that had been buried in a yard sale box, and carry it around like it was her favorite to ever.  Of course, we then couldn’t sell it.

Overall, we did well.  Our main objective was to get rid of a lot of excess stuff we had, and second, make a little money while doing it.  For the day, we cashed in a whopping $100.  I’d say that’s a successful yard sale for this year.