yard salin'

yesterday's big multi-family yard sale that we had been planning for M's school was a success!  The sellers were happy; the buyers seemed happy; and the school raised almost $200!  a great morning was had by all!
my favorite part, by far, was interacting with the yard salers!  They are a unique breed, for sure!  One lady used my husband as her own personal shopping assistant, draping clothes over his arms and piling picture frames and kitchen accessories into the crooks of his elbows.  This was after she told me, "I'm sure you have nice stuff, but i just don't feel like digging through it all."  I shrugged at that, and the next thing i knew, she had everything out and all over the tables, then all over his arms!  She also made sure to tell him (as she added each new item) that, "this is only $.50- your wife said. only $.50 for this." for every item that she had talked me down on.  she walked away with a ton of stuff for only $3.50.  


Another man talked P down from $3 to $2 for his good pair of motorola walkie-talkies.  he said he needed the price to come down "due to the hard economic times."  i guess the times aren't hard enough to do without a set of walkie-talkies, though.


My personal favorite was the woman who, after being told that the stuffed animals were $1 each, said, "they are so full of germs, that's a hard sale at that price."  as if bringing the price down to $.25 would miraculously rid the germs off of them?  


I watched what people walked away with from other stands, too.  Books, clothes, furniture.  One woman bought a Trapper Keeper with a picture of George Michael on the cover. I wish i knew how much that had gone for!


The old adage, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" was surely shown true yesterday morning.  The surest sign was the fact that I spent almost as much as i made on other people's crap, even though i am trying to rid my house of any and all additional clutter.  oh well, i tried.