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Live Yard Sale Blogging!
Jun. 7th, 2008 12:11 pmI am live yard sale blogging! Sitting in the front yard with all my lovely, lovely junk worthwhile items strewn all over. It has been really slow today. It occurs to me that we don't have that much traffic in front of our house. But we did put an ad in the paper, so we've had some business. One customer said that last year, her sister had a yard sale during this weekend (competing with a local festival) and it was really slow, so maybe that's our problem. I wouldn't have had it this weekend if I had known that was going on... not because I wouldn't have wanted to compete, though. I would like to go downtown today! We'll probably wrap it up fairly early, though, so we can still go down there if we want. It's pretty muggy, though, so I don't even know if I'll want to by then. Right now all I want is a cheeseburger or something, for I am starving.
M has gone absolutely crazy, and is shooting our vehicle with a gun. Woot! I think the stress of no recent sales is getting to him.
My parents came down to help us with the sale. My dad is a professional at this sort of event, so our yard sale got upgraded a lot from what we had planned. He's got signs and tables and sawhorses and clothes rods.
Now Boyo is hunting locusts. Damned locusts. He's failing to hit them, unfortunately, but it's a noble project. I approve greatly.
So anyway, my parents left and went to hit a few other sales themselves. Evelyn cried for her Granny when they headed out, so they ended up taking her. She is completely inconvenient to go to sales with, but Mom was tickled that she wanted to go buh-bye with her so she took her. It is kind of nice to have babysitting but it's not really how I would have chosen to spend it.
Maybe M is hunting the locusts because they have been attacking him all morning. Several have flown straight at his head. I think they believe he is their leader. Either that, or they believe (from his colorful, leafy shirts) that he is a tree. He has reloaded, so I wish him luck. Also, I hope that he doesn't hit me with a stray shot. It's an air-soft gun, so really nothing more than a toy, but I think it would probably not feel too nice to get hit anyway.
More customers! The last set didn't buy anything so we shot them, and sent them away. Ha. No, we didn't. Such a thought would never have crossed our minds.
Maybe there is a reason more people do not do live blogging from their yard sales.
Of course, most people probably have actual customers at their yard sales, so it wouldn't ordinarily be feasible. That's it. We are having a slow day for YOUR sake. Don't you feel guilty?
Do you have locusts this year where you are? We are overrun. They are huge and disgusting. They come up from the ground and leave round holes, and then they leave carcassy bits laying around on the ground or on the trees or wherever they can find, and then they fly around clumsily, and then they die, and litter up your yard. Yuck.
Sales for $4.50, of which $4 belongs to my parents. We are actually not doing too badly considering how few people are stopping. And most importantly... we sold the stuid cabinet that goes around a toilet. We bought it at the last place we lived, and don't need it now, nor does it fit. I would have given it away if I had had to, but someone gave me actual money for it! $10 of actual money! When he picked it up and started carrying it around (it is as tall as he was so it looked really funny) I grabbed hold of M's hand in sheer delight. Yay fpr de-cluttering!
I think I need to go shoot locusts now. It's too warm to sit with a laptop for long.
M has gone absolutely crazy, and is shooting our vehicle with a gun. Woot! I think the stress of no recent sales is getting to him.
My parents came down to help us with the sale. My dad is a professional at this sort of event, so our yard sale got upgraded a lot from what we had planned. He's got signs and tables and sawhorses and clothes rods.
Now Boyo is hunting locusts. Damned locusts. He's failing to hit them, unfortunately, but it's a noble project. I approve greatly.
So anyway, my parents left and went to hit a few other sales themselves. Evelyn cried for her Granny when they headed out, so they ended up taking her. She is completely inconvenient to go to sales with, but Mom was tickled that she wanted to go buh-bye with her so she took her. It is kind of nice to have babysitting but it's not really how I would have chosen to spend it.
Maybe M is hunting the locusts because they have been attacking him all morning. Several have flown straight at his head. I think they believe he is their leader. Either that, or they believe (from his colorful, leafy shirts) that he is a tree. He has reloaded, so I wish him luck. Also, I hope that he doesn't hit me with a stray shot. It's an air-soft gun, so really nothing more than a toy, but I think it would probably not feel too nice to get hit anyway.
More customers! The last set didn't buy anything so we shot them, and sent them away. Ha. No, we didn't. Such a thought would never have crossed our minds.
Maybe there is a reason more people do not do live blogging from their yard sales.
Of course, most people probably have actual customers at their yard sales, so it wouldn't ordinarily be feasible. That's it. We are having a slow day for YOUR sake. Don't you feel guilty?
Do you have locusts this year where you are? We are overrun. They are huge and disgusting. They come up from the ground and leave round holes, and then they leave carcassy bits laying around on the ground or on the trees or wherever they can find, and then they fly around clumsily, and then they die, and litter up your yard. Yuck.
Sales for $4.50, of which $4 belongs to my parents. We are actually not doing too badly considering how few people are stopping. And most importantly... we sold the stuid cabinet that goes around a toilet. We bought it at the last place we lived, and don't need it now, nor does it fit. I would have given it away if I had had to, but someone gave me actual money for it! $10 of actual money! When he picked it up and started carrying it around (it is as tall as he was so it looked really funny) I grabbed hold of M's hand in sheer delight. Yay fpr de-cluttering!
I think I need to go shoot locusts now. It's too warm to sit with a laptop for long.
