Garage Sale for the Relay

A few weekends ago we held a garage sale to raise money for the Relay for Life. Although, I've since heard that there was a massive garage sale the same weekend to raise money for another cancer event our dinky little one was not tied to it. There were 4 of us participating; myself, Daisy, Monkey and Joey Jo Jo Shabadu Jr (not their real names).

I'm quite pleased to announce that we raised just shy of $504.00. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights from the sale:

• One of the items for sale was a gag voodoo kit. A tiny little doll with pins that you could use to get back at an ex-boyfriend, etc. A woman looked at it and said "I'm not ignorant but you shouldn't be selling this to raise money for charity." Whenever somebody says "I'm not ignorant but . . ." you can be sure that the next words out of their mouth will be something extremely ignorant. This woman also tried to buy our cooler for 50 cents, not realizing that it was actually the bottles of water inside the cooler that were going for 50 cents. When I tried to give her the bottle of water she said, "that's okay honey, I work at an after hours club and can get all the free water I want." We all can lady, it's called a tap.
• One woman asked Monkey if we still had the sombrero and how much it was. When she replied yes and 25 cents the woman gave her $20.00 and said thank you, keep the change. That's an 8000% mark up. Now I know how the cable company feels.
• On the flip side another woman took 2 purses at $2.00 each and a skirt for $1.00. She tried to give me $3.00. I said the price was $5.00. After trying to push $3.00 on me she finally broke and said she'd give me $4.00. I repeated that the price was $5.00 but I would throw in the mousepad that her husband wanted. She said $4.50. Obviously this woman wasn't getting it, I tried contorting my body into the shape of a 5 but I'm simply not flexible enough and was worried that people would start singing YMCA. I won the battle and got the $5.00 but they drove off with such hatred in their eyes that I wondered if I had violated their daughter (and/or goat) at any point during the transaction.
• Daisy purchased more goods than she donated but has a couple of nice summer ensembles now.
• One woman asked if we had any smaller planters. I told her I would check the storeroom and she waited patiently and then said "would you mind?"
• Monkey told a couple of slacker kids that they could keep their "stash" in a coconut head we were selling.
• We had one bin where anything in it was a nickel. These two kids almost cleared it out but left one coaster in there. I didn't know if they had such discerning taste that the coaster just wouldn't go with all the plastic tchotchke they bought or they ran out of nickels.
  
• An exercise bike was donated to the sale and we managed to sell it to some guy whose van was already so full that he wasn't able to fit the whole bike in. The handlebars were sticking out. Monkey told him not to speed on the way home and he promised to keep it under 90.
• On Saturday a man bought one mug out of a set of two. On Sunday, our first customer was the same man, looking for the matching mug. We didn't know if he met someone the night before and wanted matching cups to have coffee in or broke the first one after he got home and needed a replacement.