i have always loved yard sales. You never know what hidden gems you will find. Our town has a town wide yard sale every year and I enjoy walking around and finding things and visiting with people from town. There are usually lots of yard sales as well as you can sell in the community club by buying a table. So this year after some massive spring cleaning. We ended up going through every thing in the house. Every paper every item and if we didn't love it or need it. It was gone. We started by posting some things on the local Facebook buy and sell. Which surprisingly with selling things for mostly $1 we sold $700 worth of stuff. But we still had quite a bit left. With not wanting to bring the stuff back in the house we decided to. Try our hand at a yard sale. Sadly there where not many on our street but our house this year so we didn't have as much traffic as we could. It was also raining the first part of the day. But in the end we still sold another $230 worth. We donated 10% to paws in motion which we are raising funds for coming up. Still having items left I didn't want them to come back in the house and clutter things up. So I packed up 2 garage bags for good will, 2 garbage bags and a box for a dog rescue that's gonna have a garage sale, we donated all the fencing etc from behind the shed to the local dog rescue in town and the rest of the hooks (200+) to the local school to sell for fundraising. We still have 2 boxes of DVDs etc that we can sell or donate that are in the garage.
Boy it feels good to clean the house so good. We don't need all this excess stuff laying around to be happy. It was nice to make a little bit of money instead of just tossing or donating everything. I would much rather people be using things then me just keeping them for the sake of owning things. Did you do a big spring cleaning?
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