Purge #1

It's a wrap!

OUR FIRST PURGE WAS A SUCCESS!

An RV is tiny compared to a house - there's only enough room for the things you use and your most loved items but zero room for the extra clutter. So, for the last year I have taken apart every room in our home. I made 3 piles; trash, to the RV and garage sale!

After a while, this process became emotional. What if? How come? Do we? Questioning everything; "how on earth did we allow ourselves to collect so much stuff?" and "How much money did we spend on all this unnecessary stuff?" But I must keep moving forward, not time to look in the rear view mirror.

I had things so organized for this garage sale, even down to the route I'd take to maximize time when putting the signs out on the street. I could not have done it without my best friend, Charissa. We used her home, after all: location, location, location! She lives on the corner of busy and not so busy.

The first day of the sale (Thursday) we were not planning to open until 3:00pm to catch the shoppers going home from work. I couldn't have been more wrong! I made the mistake (later the blessing) of putting out the signs before starting to unpack and set up. We had people parking and wanting to shop 5 minutes later. So, we rushed around setting up as fast as we could. This was the busiest day in garage sale history! We didn't even have a chance to sit and talk, surf facebook or read cosmo for those funny tests.

Thank the Lord Friday was just as busy and nearly as lucrative! Murchandise was was flying off the tables, bargining was on the rise and people's pockets were getting deeper!

Saturday was a different kind of success. We offered a "blow-out" sale. From 8am until noon, EVERYTHING $1.00!! It worked like a charm, becuase at this point EVERYTHING had to go! And it deffinately did! I believe we started with over 60 boxes/bins and after the sale we gave only 11 boxes to good will!!

What a blast running it together, we made bank and got a tan-what else is there?!!