We did it! After much preparation and hours of sitting out in the heat, the Garage Sale is complete!
Saturday turned out to be a great day! In the morning we had clear skies and plenty of sun and heat to go around, but absolutely NO rain! God kept the rain away and your prayers for customers surely paid off!
We officially opened at 7am, although we had customers coming in almost 20 minutes before that as we were still trying to set up! Our street signs weren’t even up, so they must have seen the ads online or just happened to drive by and stop. Either way, we had a steady stream of customers from that point until about 11 or 11:30. By that time it was getting really hot and I’m sure many had headed indoors for some AC or lunch. The rest of the day it was slower. There were still customers stopping by, just not as many. We closed up at 2pm and then headed indoors to get some AC and rest for ourselves.
While we did sell a lot of stuff, I do have some items leftover. Luckily, most of these items are things that could be sold down other avenues. In the next couple of weeks I will be photographing and posting these remaining items on Craigslist. Hopefully the items will sell quickly and my garage can return to it's pre-sale state! (At least I can already fit my car in there again!) The other items will take a bit more thought, but they will possibly be donated to other families. I have a couple of ideas, but just need to decide what would be best.
In the end, the garage sale was a great success. I had lots of items donated to sell, the weather cooperated, we had shopper after shopper, and my family came to help me run it all! The point of the sale was to raise money to help prepare a kid's room and the overall house for a Home Study and eventual placement of a foster child. To that effort, the grand total came to $209 !!!! That was far more than I was expecting to raise from a garage sale, but so very thankful for every last penny! God is definitely providing and I can't wait to see what will happen next!
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