Right before we left on our trip, our neighborhood association decided to have a yard sale on September 8. The day after we got home from Canada. I think that for someone like me, a lot of lead time is necessary to have a yard sale, if for no other reason than to locate all the stuff hiding in various nooks and crannies, and especially THE BASEMENT (scary music here).
As it turned out 24 hours really wasn't long enough for such a project, though I did manage to scrounge around and drag out a few miserable pieces of dross and schreck which I hoped to entice unsuspecting antique seekers with.
On the second Sunday of every month, there is an antique market under the freeway four blocks away. (www.sacantiquefaire.com). It's very popular and we thought putting out signs that would attract that crowd into the neighborhood was a pretty good idea. One of our members, and the originator of the idea, is a realtor, and he has signs, which was a good start. We put out flyers all through the neighborhood about three weeks before hoping people would have their own sales that day. I think there were about ten.
I did at least sell these fake Adirondack chairs.
The Friends of the McClatchy Library asked us to put out some of their books for sale. We didn't sell many, and they were probably surprised that they had delivered ten books and got about 20 back. But then, that's the risk you take when you ask someone to sell stuff for you.
http://www.saclibrary.org/Locations/Ella-K-McClatchy/ Lynda from next door had a bunch of stuff, and Kim brought some of her handmade stepping stones over later in the day. We had a pretty good time, but I only made $45. I tithed $5 to the association, but I ate and drank that much at the after party,
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