Educating the Wheelers

After last week’s rude surprise that the city would be repaving my mom’s street on garage sale day — with notice given at 4pm the night before — things were not look good for our heroes.

But, you know, some times things work out for the best. But it sure didn’t look like there was going to be a silver lining on Thursday. We decided to not bother putting everything out since we were told no one was allowed to park on the street all day. Well, wouldn’t you know, my mom’s neighbor had a garage sale … and they didn’t pave the road until around 3 or so. We could have went ahead and had the sale and not missed the prime hours.

Hey, water under the bridge. So we decided to put everything out on Friday, and ended up doing really well — about 175 dollars or so. And consider that we didn’t have any big ticket items, it was pretty much all children’s clothes and books. Huge volumes. So we decided to extend until Saturday, and that ended up being a good idea — we ended up around 330 total for the two days. We were originally only planning on going Thu-Fri to start with, since we had heard from neighbors that Saturdays were usually a bust. So, we lost out on Thursday, but Saturday ended up being just fine.

I deposited my haul at the bank this morning and we’ll be adding that to my “mad money” account. Woohoo!