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So it is Monday, the garage sale is finally over, but the garage is still no where from being clean, but I am getting ahead of the story.

On Saturday morning we woke up bright and early at 7am as Danith promised Brandon some McDonalds for a breakfast treat. So while she was out on the breakfast run I opened the garage door just to move stuff around and put stuff in the drive way. As I was moving things around cars started to pull up. By the time Danith was back with breakfast (And the nectar of the gods, coffee) I had already sold a bunch of stuff.

Once Danith returned I grabbed a laptop and created a spreadsheet to track sales and profits and also put up a small camera. I configured the camera to take a picture 3 times a second and had this going for the next 4 hours. If you are bored play the embedded video below as I turned all these screen caps into a 20x speed video and you can watch those 4 “exciting” garage sale hours in 4 minutes.

Around 3pm the garage sale started to slow down so we started to pack up. We sold things we did not think we were going to but the kids cloths barely sold at all! We still made a bunch of money to make it worth it but it was disappointing that we did not sell many clothes. I guess donation time is just around the corner.

Sunday was spend planting a new tree in the backyard and a few day lillies around the deck. We also tore off the railing on our front porch and that really opened up the porch. Just hope the neighborhood association “gustopo” does not knock on our door for doing that without approval.

Have a good one!

This weekend was the usual flurry of activity in the Fryar household. On Saturday May 3rd we are having our first garage sale since being in Hidden Valley. So that means going through all the junk we have stored since moving in.

We have been slowly going through the basement, closets and garage for the last few weeks, but this weekend we went whole hog. It started by just carting up boxes from the basement and rummaging through them. Must be why garage sales are called rummage sales.

We convinced the kids (Ok just BG) that they will get all the money from any toys they sell. So we also went through all of their toys and took probably a third of them. Of course the instant the older toys came out Aiden loved them all. We saved a few and pried the others out of his hands, ok not really.

So far we are mostly done with pricing but are realizing that we are out of room in the garage. The weather is not cooperating with us so most things will have to stay on tables inside due to rain. I will probably be building a few temporary tables this week.

More of the sale after the weekend.

Karate, BG started classes a few weeks ago but last Friday he had his first “test”. He demonstrated 7 karate moves w/o parental help and won a ribbon. Below is a shot of him in one of the moves and his ribbon. He also was supposed to start Tee-Ball this past Monday but stayed home due to an ear infection. Wednesday is his next class and I hope he feels well enough to go.