Daydreaming: The Great Yard Sale Post

Hey everyone, I'm belatedly posting some pictures and an update on the yard sale my youth group had last month. It took 2 weeks of prep work, and then right after that my best friend Danise came to visit with her kids, and when she left, the yard sale seemed like an eternity ago. So it slipped my mind until today, when I was uploading a lot of pictures so I could get some free prints. (Oh, the things that motivate me...)

So here we are. This is my friend who does youth group with me. We're in the church elevator bringing stuff up from our youth room and the storage room in the basement of our building, to the first floor where the gym is. After we get out of the elevator, we go left and down this big ramp and then down another long hallway. It was quite a process. We did have some great help though.

Below: stuff in piles where we ~~tossed~~ placed it after carrying it upstairs. I have always wanted to type something with ~~strikethrough~~. :-)

This will become the linens section.

And, thanks to Blogger uploading my photos incorrectly, here are the linens looking quite a bit nicer.

Starting the sorting process. This corner will become electronics and pets. Trust me. It makes sense to us later.

See? Looks better now.

Now here's some of the cool or interesting stuff we got this year. These chairs are legitimately old. They look so cute, but they are covered in some kind of plastic-y material, and would have been so much more awesome if that was a soft fabric. I think they would have been cute in a little girl's room.

Just a cool old table. I like old furniture. The fold-out mechanism on the leaves was pretty cool.

We have had this china set for over 3 years and no one would buy it. Most of the pieces are marked Limoges. We looked it up and researched it the first year we had it, hoped to sell it for about $50, and when no one wanted it, we held it and reduced the price the following year. And the year after that. Green isn't my favorite color, but I thought it was so pretty anyway that I decided if no one bought it this year, I would. It sold, of course. I was actually very happy about that, and told the lady who bought it how glad I was that it was finally going home with someone who appreciated it.

A gorgeous set of Noritake china. It was donated by one of our youth kid's grandparents, and when the youth's mother came in and saw it, she was so upset that she bought it back! Mom and I had tried to get my grandmother to buy it but she preferred to stick with her old, ugly, mismatched stuff instead. Too bad. It was just as beautiful as you please, a full 12 piece set. But it had a happy ending, going home with the person who probably should have had it in the first place.

Check out all the bikes! We've never had that many bikes. Over there you can see our lazy helpers. They aren't really lazy. We were just done for the day and waiting for parents to pick them up. But it was funny to me to write lazy. They were anything but.

Some of the containers we had, plus you can kind of see some of the appliances, and in the background a rack of clothes that one of our awesome helpers put together for us.

A bunch of dolls were donated to us this year. We actually had 2 Pillsbury Dough Boy figures, the one in this photo and another I didn't get a shot of for some reason.

Baby and toy section. I didn't even get a chance to take pictures of the Legos we had. We had about 10 boxes of the huge 600-800 piece sets, plus a giant bin of more sets all combined, with instruction booklets. We probably made about $1000 off the Legos alone. You can see a Star Wars toy here though.

Games

We had a couple of nice bags this year, including this one.

We always get some unique stuff. I think you can see the standing cardboard cutout of the Nascar racer whose name I don't know. She sold. We had two antique sleds this year, too. In fact, our sporting goods section was overflowing.

A shot of about half the space. Clothes, household, furniture (from near to far). And the lazy helpers.

Now these sideways ones, I'm sorry about them. I really thought I had figured out how to turn them in my posts, but now for the life of me I can't figure it out. So I apologize and if I get around to figuring it out, I will fix it. For now, just turn your heads. :-)

This is a view of our book section, which was rather small this year.

Health and Beauty section. Always some interesting stuff there. Always a lot of stuff getting thrown out, too. Ick. Opened bottles of old shampoo? Um, no thanks!