One last time!

We were so amazed by the results of our fundraiser sale. I'd estimate that we sold at least half of what we started with, but we still had tons of stuff left. So we decided to do a sale one more day, this time at our house.

We picked Thursday, the 21st. Luckily Chad was off in the morning and Chad's mom Sue was willing to watch both boys in the afternoone while he was working. We took a few hours the night before to get some of the big things out and put up our signs, and then got up bright and early Thursday morning to set up the rest. Honestly, we had a hard time getting motivated this time. Even when dealing with one household's "stuff," garage sales are hard work! Try having a sale with 40 households' "stuff"! (Not that we weren't extremely grateful for everyone's donations, of course!!!)



We had decided to get rid of the big items anyway we could, so we put low price stickers on them and told people to make us offers. This worked, and we sold almost every large piece of furniture left. We also sold quite a bit of the odds and ends left. All told, we made another $470 in just that one day!!

A wonderfully sweet woman at our church baked us some cranberry oat scones (she told us they were for us to eat or sell, whatever was easier on us...how sweet is that?), so Griffin manned a table to sell those for us.


When you add that to our big sale, and the Children's Sale check I finally got (remember the sale I needed all the hangers for?), and some other items I sold on Craigslist, we've made over $4,100 for our adoption fund!!! We could not be happier! (and we got our garage back!)