August 21, 2004

The Yard Sale:: Day 1

So we decided to have a yard sale to raise money for our commitment and donate the money to the Leukemia Society.

All week I culled through the house making piles and for the last two or three weeks have been going through my CD's and ripping to MP3s the songs I liked from the CD's I wanted to get rid of.

Friday I had an offsite for work and came home early—but not really early enough.

Sheila was already moving tables out into the driveway and moving stuff up from the basement. Ispent time moving some stuff up and dragging things outside. I made chocolate chip cookies to sell and bagged up about 60 cookies. By 11pm we had everything pretty much setup, most things priced. Then I started making signs and then we drove around and out them up. Came home, priced more, got more stuff from the basement, went through the closets again and finally went to bed around 2.

We got up at 6, moved tables out, got a box for money and hung up TNT tshirts.

People showed and were buying by 7:15.

We made a lot of sales on Saturday—waves of people. Very few lulls. We shut down for the day at 2 and went and got some food. Then we saddled up to ride and met Kiersten and Trisha at Edgewood/Canada for a short (15 mile) ride with a couple of hills.

Collapsed into bed around 11.

Posted by erin at 11:50 PM