Yard Sale 2013

Today we did the yard sale again.  We did ok, but not brilliantly, certainly not as well as last year.  This could be for a number of reasons.  Firstly there seemed like there were less people, just a few less.  Then I suppose these are not good times for people economically, although that could make people buy more stuff second hand rather than new.  The weather was a bit patchy as well, there was sunny patches and rainy patches.  At about 12.45 there was quite a more persistent shower and quite a few people packed up then, even though it was supposed to finish at 2pm.  In the end I think the main reason I didn't do so well was that I didn't have as much stuff to get rid of as I thought I did.  I looked at it all once I'd got it out and thought "Is this it?"

Later on in the day the sun came out and we went to take the sign back to the organisers.  We spent some of our profits on a swiss roll at Colin's and all was right with the world.

Yard Sale

Events to write about here have been like buses lately.  There hasn't been much for a while, then on Saturday we had 3 in one day.  First was the yard sale.  It's like a day where lots of people have yard sales all around the village and recreation in Aston sell maps of the village to show people where they all are.  When I booked the pitch the organiser warned me that traders come round before the sale starts to cream off the good stuff before it opens.  We were told not to set up too early so that it gives people from the village a fair chance at the bargains.  I started setting up at about 9.30 (sale started at 10) and sure enough a flurry of traders appeared before 10am.  One of them told me I'd left it a bit late to set up and started looking in my garage.  He was only interested in one thing, my son's drum kit, which wasn't for sale.  None of the traders wanted anything from my stall and I was quite worried that I wasn't going to sell anything.  We had a steady stream of customers throughout the duration of the sale and in the end we managed to get rid of a reasonable amount of stuff.  People were friendly and quite a few people chatted on their way through.  Quite a lot of people didn't understand the map.  It was a bad map through.  It showed all the wiggly streets as straight lines and didn't look anything like how they really are.  They should just print out a map of the village from google maps and copy it. Towards the end the people began to tail off, not many people were around after 1.30pm.  The best thing about it was the weather.  God must have been smiling down on us.  It was predicted to rain all day but it held off until it chucked it down at 2pm when the sale due to finish.