The All-American Yard Sale

This past weekend, we participated in that very American institution, the yard sale. We are planning on moving out of South Bend in the near future, so it was time to unload a bunch of stuff (i.e. junk). That, we did by the boatloads.

I'm not sure why, but we had a non-stop stream of traffic into our little subdivision from 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. We really didn't expect to do much business, but we did. Got rid of a lot of kids toys, some furniture, and clothes, clothes, clothes.We had sent the kids out to grandma's house because there would have been too much drama when they saw we were selling one of their toys that they played with once in the last.

As the day went on, I kept going in the house and bringing out what I thought was true 100% crap, and it immediately sold. Wow, never underestimate the garage sale crowd.Meanwhile, my wife, much more bold than I am, told everyone that came that our house was for sale, too. Me, I might have mentioned it once, but Dorene was in full-scale salesman mode. Sure enough, a few people even said they were interested and she took them back in the yard and even into the house (even though it was a disaster).

If we sell our house due to having a yard sale, then both Dorene and Cameron are to thank. Cameron had told us we should sell our house at the yard sale. We both thought, hmm, that's not a bad idea. I know the housing market it down right now, but hey, someone out there is still wanting to buy a house, so why not us be that someone that sells to them?