Street Sale Season has arrived!!

This weekend was the neighborhood street sale in my sisters community. I got TONS of denotations from people of stuff to sell and made a good contribution towards my campaign.
I always thought that garage sales were a simple, easy Sunday tradition that my Mom always had through out the summer. You woke up in the morning, put your stuff out on your driveway and people came by and gave you money for it. Easy. I don't think so! Obviously I was a kid the last time I was involved in one of these ordeals and this morning at 6:30am had no idea what I was in for. I figured that we would get up, have some breakfast, casually start putting the stuff outside and slowly the people would come on by. Wrong! By 7am, the cars were stalking the streets like vaulchers eyeing prey. When my sister called out that people had started to arrive, I looked out the window and the sidewalks were jammed with these seriously committed bargain hunters. What were all these people doing here?!?!? It's barely 7:30AM! Panicked now I rush to put out the coffee and cookies that we (and by we I mean my sister Kelly) had made. Still barely awake, I'm taping up my Team Diabetes posters, organizing the merchandise, finding the way to exhibit my boxes full of old Harlequin romance novels (trying to both display them enough for them to sell, but not so much that I am embarrassed with how many I have) all whilst haggling with these early morning thrift scavengers. Besides my surprise with how quickly it all started in the morning, everything went smoothly all day. The people were very friendly and when I told them about my cause many people were generous and supportive. By midmorning when most of the "hot items" were already long gone, luckily we kept the donations coming by introducing freshly baked cupcakes, compliments of the baking guru, my sister. I guessed it didn't hurt that I also happen to have the cutest cupcake spokesperson ever. Now if that's not the face of a satisfied customer.. I don't know what is.

Well I've still got a numbers of items left over that I'm going to keep with me for another street sale later this summer. I've still got with me a bag full of clothes, which is good since I started with two, AND because my next fundraising challenge is going to be a clothing drive. This week I am going to approach Value Village and ask them to make a donation on a per pound rate. I'm going to ask everyone I know to donate all their old clothes. Since this is the season for wardrobe rotation, winter to summer, I'm sure I'll have no problem finding contributors.

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by and showing your support. Stay tuned to find out where you can donate your clothes!!

S.