Day 106

Day 106

Saturday, July 12, 2014

On Friday I worked on finishing washing up excess cookware, and pulling out random things here and there to toss into the yardsale pile.  In the late afternoon TGF and DGS15 got here.  We finished pricing the stuff in the house, and loaded up the truck and trailer (she drove it and brought DGS).  She came back again just after dark and we loaded up the car.

I got up this morning a little after 5:00.  TGF was supposed to pick me up at 6:30, but she called before 6:00 to say she was on the way.  She and DGS had already unloaded the car, plus the truck and trailer.  She and I loaded the truck and trailer with everything left, and went out to the yard sale site.

This yardsale was originally instigated by one of her friends, who thought having a multi family sale would be a good idea.  He set everything up, and it was to be on his vacant lot so there would be lots of room.

Well, as it turned out, first of all the boys forgot to mow the grass .. so while we were getting things set up they were running the annoyingly loud lawnmower and weedeater.  Secondly, the “10” families turned out to only be 3 of us .. the guy who started all this decided not to bother himself!!  And thirdly, there was for the most part NO shade, and it went into the high 90s today.  There was a tree across the street, and for a while we were able to sit off to one side in some shade.  Then we had to actually move into the street (a side street with no traffic) .. and then even that was gone.

There was almost no traffic, even with a lot of advertising and with signs up.  I was hot, tired, miserable; and TGF was completely disgusted.  In the end, after expenses (helping pay for gas for the 6 trips out here and back), paying the boys who helped load and unload (mainly DGS15 and BGS12), and busying some breakfast biscuits, I cleared a grand total of about $50.  OK, granted, at least it wasn’t a loss.  But it wasn’t really worth the amount of effort either.

I had originally said I’d donate anything left over .. but that was before I realized that about 95% of it is left over!!  But all 3 of us agreed that this was  a major screw-up, so we’ll consider doing it again.  Only next time, TGF will be “in charge”; and it will be in a location that has plenty of traffic, and shade!!

For now, most of the stuff is neatly piled in a back corner.  Since it’s all already priced,  half the work is already done.  I may or may not find much to add to it.  But for now, I will concentrate on trying to get packed and ready to move. 

After I got home . after getting off my feet for awhile … I felt restless.  I changed the litter box, and then packed up everything except drawers in the secretary (desk).  I felt like that was a good accomplishment, to balance out an otherwise unproductive day.

Tonight I’m just going to watch midnless TV and rest!!  I’m too tired to feel discouraged, depressed, or anything more energetic than bored with TV reruns!