Garage Sale Success!!!

After lots of hard work and some great cooperation from the weather, Saturday was a big success. My house was filled with years of stuff me, my wife, my parents, my in laws, and some other gracious donaters had brought over. We had posted our start at 8 am, but as soon as we opened the garage at 7:30 to start setting up, the professional garage salers were out in force. Throughout the day there were tons of people that came by, haggling ensued (kind of felt like the market in Siem Reap), and money was made. The last scavengers finally left at about 5 pm, for a 9 1/2 hour garage sale marathon. All told, for the trip, we raised about $500, and on top of that had a woman in my neighborhood give $300 when she found out what we were doing it for. So, $800 for stuff we would have probably given to Goodwill ain't too shabby.

The highlight of the day was when we sold a treadmill donated by Laura's sister for $100. They were very nice people and asked if we could take it to their house in my truck. No problem, I thought. As me and my brother in law were driving it to their house 10 minutes away, it flips over the back tailgate. As we pull into the turn lane, I see that it is holding on. We get back there to find that it was barely holding on to the tailgate and ratchet strap I had around it, about 8 inches off the ground. God was looking out for us, and the driver behind us. We got it flipped back up and positioned better so it wouldn't fall again, and believe it or not, all it had was a little dent that was fixed in no time. We got to the people's house and it worked fine, and there were very happy, and still have us the full price, dispite the dent. God is good.

Look forward to seeing everyone in two weeks. God Bless.