I worked at a garage sale today. The proceeds benefitted my oldest's school. This garage sale was just one of many throughout the neighborhood. I always enjoy having garage sales because the garage sale clientele is so versatile. Every walk of life shops garage sales and it is always interesting to see and talk to them all.
There are the people that come just to check out your stuff and judge you. They don't typically talk to you too much. There are the people that are hoarders and are buying such an array of items that you know they have six more of all of these in their car. There are the people that come just to talk and not to shop. These people are full of free advice about an array of topics. Today my garage sale partner learned from a nice older gentleman how to turn her Hydrangeas blue.
Here are the two most important things I leanred today:
#1. I understand why there is the rule: no shirt, no shoes, no service as there were many people that came through the garage sale without shoes. I don't know if they lived in the neighborhood or came by car, but obviously shoes were too stiffling for them and were deemed unnecessary.
#2. I put my youngest's high chair in the garage sale. He's moved onto a booster seat at the kitchen table and I was tired of cleaning up all the crevices of his high chair. It was the type of high chair that straps onto a chair and pulls up to the table and a tray attaches to it. A couple came through the garage sale with a baby and decided to buy the high chair. According to them it would be perfect to take to the race track with them because they get tired of holding the baby. I thought the cutest thing about the family was how they all matched so much. Mostly just in their number of teeth, but still it was cute.
What have you learned from garage sales?
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