We had our first ever moving sale over Labor Day weekend, and we learned a few things.
First, no matter what time you say your sale will start in your advertisements, people will show up one hour early. These are the hardcore. So you better wake up on time and get that coffee brewing.
Second, people don’t want to make you an offer. Everything we put the “make me an offer” stickers on sat all day, pretty much completely ignored.
And finally, after about noon, just give up. Garage-salers are morning people. They want to get up on Saturday morning, find a few deals, and then spend the rest of the day…doing whatever else it is garage-salers enjoy doing.
Nevertheless, it was a pretty successful sale. We had already sold our dining room table and chairs, along with the matching hutch. At the sale itself, we sold a lot of our miscellaneous items and some baby gear. We did not sell our various dish sets, so they, along with almost everything else that was left over, got donated to Big Sisters and to the thrift store on base.
The goal was to make enough money to replace our slapdash collection of dishes with Fiestaware. And, while we don’t really have any idea how much we made from the sale (because we forgot to make note of how much cash we started out with), we’re pretty sure it wasn’t enough to buy all new dishes. It was close enough, though, so we’re going for it.
As a result of the furniture we managed to sell, Sean now has two almost completely empty rooms to run around in. The Year of Liquidation continues.
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