the yard sale

Our children talked us into having a yard sale and I started to wonder how much I would have to pay to get people to rake things off of my lawn. Well here is a quick run-down.

My daughter was able to sell a lot of her extra scrapbooking papers.

When our children were small we bought fishing tackle boxes to build 72 hour emergency kits filled with bandaids, food, toys and lots of little items that would help keep them happy in an extended emergency. A fisherman bought them.

This is one view of the yard before the sale and before everything was actually brought out.There were at least five families donating to this project so it wasn't all ours. If you look back against the house and knew what you were looking at you could see the bunk-beds I made for my children when they were small and used until they left home.

A good idea when we bought it years ago ended up in the attic and finally came out for the yard sale. It was sold much to my happiness since I wouldn't have to put it back in the attic. It still had most of the pieces with it and was actually only missing a couple clamps.

Then there was this small desk that I mostly refinished several years ago and was used by our youngest son until he was married. It sold too.

Then my son in law had this camp table. I really wanted it but held out for the better good, (I didn't need to fill my storage area up so soon after getting it manageable finally.

Then at the back of this picture you can see some black storage boxes that I saved when working for an integrated circuits manufacturing plant. I have used the over the years for storage of things like soap bars and light bulbs. Some of them even sold, along with a few of the baskets in the back and numerous other items on this blanket.

However this trainer for electronics still didn't sell. It was fun trying and several people asked what it was and I had fun telling them. It is just a piece of the past, as I explained in my last blog, that just doesn't seem to have a place in the future quite yet. There a still too many of us that remember the tubes of our youth.

Needless to say, but I will anyway. Thank You to my daughter and her husband that spent the entire day out there, even 3 hours past when they were scheduled to close because people were still coming. They were the only reason a lot of this sold since they are such fun people to talk to and loved to get the others to take a second look.

Great job Tia and Scott.