Lessons learned

Since I need to stop dwelling on the sadness of the High Park Fire and since I really need to get motivated to actually straighten up my house now that the garage sale is over...

Here are some lessons I learned from our garage sale:

• There's a fine line between buying stuff "just in case" and being a hoarder. ;) (as evidenced by the boxes and boxes of extra supplies purchased with the intent to make gifts and the actual extra ungifted gifts, lol...)
• Putting up a big, neon sign that says "If it's not labeled, it's $1" does not mean that people will stop asking you how much everything is. (Note: I did label more than half the stuff. But even those clearly labeled things brought questions of how much they were. Argh.)
• Even if your kids are old enough to fend for themselves for a morning, you still apparently need to expressly tell them to eat something.
• Cute little kids are my downfall...I tend to just give things to them. :)
• One man's trash really is another man's treasure.
• After your garage sale is done, you inevitably find more stuff you should have included. ;)

Okay, off to tackle our front room (one of the two places I'd been piling things while shuffling stuff for the sale) before coercing boys to do the rest of the day's schoolwork...

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[Melinda]

Daniel got TONS of stuff given to him for free and really cheap when we went garage saling. It was great!