Saturday morning was the community wide yard sale for the community in which my parents live. I took a few things over and then helped my mom and dad a bit. This years yard sale attendance was rather disappointing. There was one year we made over $300 and with the money bought a new garage door. Not the case this year. Reed and Jamie brought their kids over, along with a truck load of stuff for sale. We set everything up in mom and dad's drive way. Jamie and I thought that we had the best stuff, after we went around the block to check out the other neighbors stuff.
My dad always reminds me that you know you're on the bottom rung of the economic/social/cultural ladder when you have a yard sale to get rid of your junk and no one wants anything. :( So either our lack of traffic was related to our slide down the ladder or the ladder has shrunk
by several rungs, and is now more like one of those step stools we have in the bathroom for the kids to stand on to wash their hands...the whole world is on the same bottom step. Hmmmm????Anyways, regardless of the lack of economic gain, we managed to have some fun. Yard sales always mean that we sit around in the garage on lawn chairs, talking and eating, waiting for people to come and look at our junk. Saturday mornings menu consisted of leftover cheese dip with tostada shell chips (mom didn't have any tortilla chips so she baked the tostada shells and then we broke them up), and a delicious banana cake with cream cheese frosting that mom made. Oh and diet root beer and hot chocolate. Yum...as you can tell it's pretty much a food free-for-all.
Here are are few other photos from that morning.
Reed
Kaylie and Grandma Schaub
So of course we took the kids around the block to check out the other yard sale participants and like most kids they couldn't wait to spend some money, and it didn't really matter what it was on...spoons, old stuff animals, cars, a scale. However, Audrey did zero in on one item at the first place we stopped and Reed just couldn't resist buying it for her. What do you think??
1 comments:
Saturday was so much fun that I don't even care that we did it all for 60 something dollars! Family, eating, relaxing are totally my favorite things! Great pictures again! You've got to teach me how you add a little color to the black and white photos!
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